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By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/30/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is from 5/21/17 through 5/23/17 on Banks Lake in Grant County.
Arrived Sunday 5/21 at around 0830 and was launched out of the park at Banks Lake South by 0930. I motored out to a littl...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 6/7/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit banks for a family camping fishing trip from friday the 2nd through monday morning. It was tough fishing at first..went around to barker flats and ran everything from planers and flicker shads to...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 8/24/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/24/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The normal trio arrived at Coulee City this morning to find a strong NW wind howling and good sized rollers and whitecaps. We headed north by road and found the wind equally strong at the Northrup Ca...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 10/13/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to try fishing the "humps" on the south end of the lake on Friday. I've never fished the area before but had heard it can hold walleye. Long story short 4 hours of trolling produced zero fis...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/9/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
It was good to get out on the water with my usual buddies as CF has been a no show for a while, being a bit under the weather. Launched at Northrop Canyon and had lines in the water by 6:45. We fish...
By: yearofthecraig
Posted: 6/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Fished Banks Lake from Steamboat north for three days. Smallmouth were very hard to find, but got one of note in the shade off of Steamboat, casting a sinking Rapala along the shore. The 15inch wall...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Slept in and listen to the wind blow today. About 10am I figured I'd give it a try.
Launched at Steamboat, ran out to Barker Flats, way to windy. So I ducked back in behind Steamboat.
Picked up...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/7/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I headed to Banks Lake this morning with my son and 2 grandsons. The boys don't have a lot of fishing experience so I thought the abundant walleye would keep their interest up. I set them up with li...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Despite getting 25 fish days at Potholes the last 3 weeks the recent reports had us headed to Banks this AM. Winds were forecast to be 5 MPH but whitecaps greeted us. We launched at Coulee City and ...
By: lsnelso2
Posted: 4/27/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Had a great weekend fishing Banks. Caught a few but had to work pretty hard to find them, I think the cold front that rolled through over the weekend slowed the bite down a little bit. I was able to c...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 3/26/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/25/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a couple largemouth on banks in my inflatable around osbourne slough area. Did not have a lot of time to fish. All fish where caught on a perch color Strike King KVD jerk bait. Fished very slow...
By: bluewater16
Posted: 8/31/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Banks this morning. I forgot how bad the wind out of the south can make that lake. Finally gave it up at 1:00 pm. Did manage two get to limits of 14 to18" walleye and c&r'd two nice smallies 2....
By: bluewater16
Posted: 8/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Banks for first time in 25 years. Had To after reading all the reports. Not sure where we were just followed the boats
We were about 5 miles south of steamboat next to hyway where a spring come...
Posted: 3/19/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day of fishing at barker flats near steamboat rock . Awesome weather. Saw easily over 50 boats today fishing barker flats. Fish seemed to bite better when it was breezy in the morning. Most of m...
By: C-money
Posted: 4/14/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks last weekend. Had a great time. Fishing was ok, plenty of slow time, but there was a few doubles at times as well. We boated 14 walleye, 7 perch and 3 crappie. One 19" walleye still had e...
