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By: wallmama
Posted: 9/25/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
WT: 64-70 F, northern wind <= 5 mph, lake level was very low; 5-6 ft lower than full pool, water was stained, weeds are dying: cabbage are dead, Millfoil Ok,
Fished flats on north and middle section ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 2/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First of all, its hard to believe I'm sending a report for Banks Lake on February 8th for walleye. The entire lake is ice free as of this weekend. The water temperatures are 38-39 degrees in the main ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 2/15/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye bite was on today at Banks Lake. Caught numerous fish today ranging in size from 16-27 inches. Everything came on the new Mack's Lure SpinDrift Rig. This bait is far and away out fishing a...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 2/22/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye bite remains very strong at Banks Lake. Fish are holding in 35-50 feet and are munching down on the Mack's Lure Spindrift Walleye Rig tipped with a whole crawler. Slow trolling with 2 ounc...
By: Oceanlord26
Posted: 3/9/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Great day on the water. The docks are in at Steamboat, so launching is not a problem. All the walleye were caught between 40 and 45 feet. Used a Mack's Lure chartreuse blade with a slow death hook...
By: Oceanlord26
Posted: 3/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Day two for this trip. Fished Barker Flats along with five other boats - 40- 50 ft with Mack's Smile blade and worms with the Slow Death Hook behind 1.5oz bottom bouncers. Boated the limit but misse...
Posted: 3/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 3
We fished Banks lake this past Sunday and found some great success. We targeted water that was 40 to 50 feet deep. The surface temp was 43 tp 44 degrees. Our best crawler harness patterns were gold in...
By: Oceanlord26
Posted: 3/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/16/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Just got back from another three day trip to Banks Lake. It's unfortunate but my wife has volunteered all the fish for Sunday dinner.
Great trip, slow at times and frustrating at others. Went to Ba...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 3/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I'd like to give it a higher rating. But part of me sez to give it a lower rating.
I fished from like 9:30am till nearly 4 pm.
I caught atleast 40 walleye. One I think I could have passed f...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/6/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to rate it for what it is... I'm perfectly happy with my little trip.
No time this weekend to fish, had lots of chores. But managed a couple of hrs Sunday afternoon. Put in at Coulee City about...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Thursday, April 9th. The walleye bite is strong right now on Banks Lake. But wow the fish are spread out and are in various depths. Yesterday we caught walleye in depths as deep as ...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 5/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Spent most of last week at Banks targeting walleye and bass and hoping for some , whitefish and burbot. Banks is full to the brim and they are still pumping in lots of water. Water temps at the north ...
Posted: 5/26/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Went to check out Banks Lake with my now Fiancé! Well, there are TONS of small walleye and medium sized perch to keep you busy and steal tons of worms! Found the nice keeper Walleye in 15 to 25 feet o...
By: Aaron
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Had a fantastic (if not crispy) outing on Banks this last Saturday. Drove under a heck of a storm on the way to the lake. Lightning, major wind and rain.
Had planned to stay at the Steamboat Park ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/1/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Aaron, Rob, and I got to fish with Jordan Osborn of Upper Columbia Guide Service for a day of walleye fishing on Banks Lake. We met at 5:30am and hit the water running. It was a gorgeous day with ligh...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I gave this trip a 5 because it was truly a blast.
Dumped the boat into bank at the mid lake launch, not an easy task, water is way down! But it's only a 17.5 boat so no problem.
Ran up the la...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Just got home from three days at Banks. Wednesday the 10th we caught 70-80 sub legal walleye, all were 12-15 inches also nailed a 4 1/2 pound small mouth and 8 perch in the 9-10 inch range. Thursday w...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We(Evie and I) fished Banks from 7-3 thru 7-6 every chance we could between wind events and 100 plus degree heat. We stayed at Coulee City park(what a zoo on a holiday weekend), with the wind blowing ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
If you have kids and want to get them on fish, Banks Lake is the spot to hit. The walleye action is basically not stop for fish running 15-17 inches with walleye up to 22-24 inches being taken as well...
By: kokanee1
Posted: 6/25/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Okay this is a 3 day report form June 21-23. Went to Banks lake with some friends. Planned to fish hard, tube and get the guys up on water skis when it got hot out. Arrived Sunday around noon and s...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/4/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
As of July 1st the slot limit on Banks Lake has permanently moved to the 12"-22" and 8 fish per day limit. Limits are now the norm, not the exception.
The size of the walleye have been from the ta...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
It is actually pretty amazing at the number of walleye that are in Banks Lake this year. Limits have been the norm on all of my trips.
The crankbait bite has been fast and furious for the first co...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 7/27/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Another day at banks and another 50+ fish day. The big gals where there again I just couldn't land them broke two 26" off at the boat then got to looking at my NEW line I put on and it had Knicks abou...
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake Walleye is absolutely on fire right now! We had a phenomenal day catching Walleye, and the bite is going to stay hot!
Trolling Mack's Lure Slowdeath Rigs from 1.0 to 1.2 mph in 20ft-35f...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/29/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hot, hot, hot. The walleye bite is simply on fire on Banks Lake! Even better, the fish are getting bigger by the day.
We got well over 50 fish today and kept only walleye that were at least 16 inc...
