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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/20/2006
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Went out with Ma, Pa, and little sister and got to the lake at about 2:30 in the afternoon. The Sun came out but the wind had picked up a bit. Fished from the little dock on the south side of the la...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/11/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/28/2006
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The fishing was great. We caught lots of bass, crappie and a few perch and ended up with a 5.5 pound walleye. We couldn't ask for anything more except catching our limits which we could have done ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/13/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2006
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Got to the Lake @ about 8:30... Took us about 1-1/2 to get our first bass on a spinner bait... after that it was nonstop until about 9:30 p.m. Must have caught about 25-30 fish. Talk about a great fis...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2006
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Fished Banks for three days over the memorial day week end and did pretty well.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2006
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Another pic from a great week end of fishing at Banks Lake.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/20/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2006
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Banks was good for us this weekend. We fished the north end south of Steamboat and to the west. We landed 35+ walleyes up to 25" in between the squalls. Subtle detail was the key to hooking fish. We p...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/7/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2006
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I fished Banks on Monday the 3rd of July and all I have to say is WOWWWWWW!
I took a friend with me who has never caught a fish in his entire life. Well now he is an experienced fisherman. The small...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/9/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/4/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I actually fished on the other side of the road from SunBanks resort and it was a hot day. I dropped my line with plastic worm down in the weeds and caught 3 beautiful large mouth bass. I was so exc...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/19/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Spent last week in Coulee City and fished the southern end of Banks for 3 days. Caught 9 walleye, 2 smallies and a humongous perch. Fished in middle of day and play boats weren't an issue over there...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/6/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake for 2 days, the first day we got skunked exept for a bite from a small walleye that spat the hook as we were trolling for smallmouth. The next morning from 7:30 to 9:30 we managed to...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/20/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2006
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fished for smallmouth bass with jigs in deeper water north end of lake caught many smallmouths 2 walleye 1 perch and 3 big rainbows 4 to 5 pounds great fighters on 6 and 8 pound test fish were feeding...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/9/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 10/9/2006
Hot Spots: 0
This was our first time to Banks. The first evening we caught some decent Smallies with my wife taking big fish honors (a beautiful 3 lber). The next two days the wind kicked up and we decided to tr...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/21/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2006
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After leaving Roosevelt Wed. I had returned to Steamboat Rock St Pk. that evening the rains began, DRAT!!. Thurs morning it was still raining lightly. My friend arrived and we decided to put up the ca...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 1/14/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 1/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Ice fishing at Coulee City Marina - early morning has been best, but fish were biting throughout the day all weekend. A lot of small ones, but some nice ones as well. Fish near the bottom with a sal...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/11/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2007
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Fairly new to Spokane area. Fished Roosevelt a lot cause thats where wifes father fishes for bows. Been looking very forward to doing some bassin on a lake known for such. Fished Banks on the 7th. Cau...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 8/20/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit banks tuesday morning for some largemouth action. Caught lots of dinks in the reeds on top water frogs and buzz baits. The bigger fish are holding deep off ledges. Caught some decent size ones abo...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 9/17/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the punch bowl at banks yesterday targeting bass. Caught lots of largies and smallies on plastics and cranks. Also caught lots of perch and walleye on my texas rigged lizards and senkos. The wa...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 10/22/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Caught lots of dink largemouth in the osbourne slough area on cranks and senkos. Of course the bigger fish have been deep for awhile but I love fishing the weed beds and reeds. Was a great fall day wi...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 12/24/2014
Species: Burbot
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/21/2014
Hot Spots: 2
This was my last big trip for the Cascadia Big Fishing Year, where I am attempting to catch/harvest as many species of fish/shellfish in OR/WA in 2014. My two target species for this trip were burbot ...
By: Lee Howe
Posted: 4/1/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
First time out this year. Launched at Coolee Playland and stayed in that section of the lake. Patty and I fished the exact spots that were real good at this time in the last two years and did not get...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 6/14/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First trip to Banks this year. Launched at Coulee City with the usual suspects at 7:15. There were several boats working just outside the launch area but we headed further north and worked some hump...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 8/11/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Al and I headed north this morning with our wives instead of CF, our usual fishing partner. There was much more chatter coming from the back seat instead of the normal snoring we were used to hearing...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/9/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I bribed my wife with breakfast if she would go walleye fishing yesterday. I think it was making sure we had enough fillets in the freezer that sealed the deal. We launched at Coulee City and were p...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 6/19/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Persistence sometimes pays off. CF, Al and I headed to Banks for the first time this year. We launched at Coulee City and started on the East side flats pulling crank baits but only found weeds. He...
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 8/13/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Late report....sorry,
Hit banks at first light, started on west side of steamboat, no good moved down to mid lake launch area and found success. Started shallow and had to move out to deeper water to...
