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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/10/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/8/2006
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Camped out at Banks for a night this weekend. We normally have good luck bank fishing in a bay 10 minutes north of Coulee City. However it rained hard all weekend, reminding me that I need a new ten...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/18/2006
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2006
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Just came back from Banks Lake for the last week I have been fishing my tail off. This was the best fishing trip I have ever had, The bass fishing was nothing short of incredible I am sure I caught so...
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
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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
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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
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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: hewesfisher
Posted: 5/6/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Made the long trip to Banks yesterday and actually caught some fish. We went with the hope of catching some smallmouth and some walleye. Well, we caught some smallmouth but no walleye. I'm sure the la...
By: senkoboy
Posted: 5/16/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
fished banks lake from 05/02/2007 thru the 12th started out slow but as the water temp warmed fishing improved dramatically caught lots of Smallmouth to 4LBS. Using top water plugs, Plastics and crank...
By: y2says
Posted: 5/17/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Banks and my friend and I tore them up. We fished all day Monday and most of Tuesday. Tons of beds with fish on them. Some were in spawn and post spawn mode. Caught a lot of bass and...
By: Edgeran
Posted: 5/29/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks Lk. for Memorial Day weekend and had an amazing time. The fishing and the partying meshed together like mashed potatoes and gravy....umm. Anyway, we caught a walleye, a few perch, a coup...
By: tcb
Posted: 5/30/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for Memorial Day Weekend. The action was good, lots of smallies and a few perch just like the earlier report. Got one 28" Wally. Windy, Windy, WINDY!! We couldn't get the boat off th...
By: robberelite96
Posted: 6/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was awesome. Caught 40+ fish between 2 of us. Biggest pushing 5lbs and lots of 3+. Used tubes, grubs, and drop shot. Lots of fish on beds but also a lot over shallow rock once the wind picked ...
By: tmusky1
Posted: 6/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished Banks from May 31 - June3. We actually went to Banks with the intentions to target walleye but the fishing was really slow for us (and numerous other people) so we went with plan B...
By: clam man
Posted: 6/12/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Oh my Gosh!
This was the best fishing lake I have ever been on. Not only did I catch my first smallmouth bass, I easily crushed my record for largemouth and biggest fish ever (a carp hooked on wheat...
