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Posted: 8/10/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake Walleye fishing continues to be nothing short of on fire!
We kept 2 limits of 15" to 16.5" Walleye with a 20" big one as well! We were using Mack's Lure Slowdeath Rigs in Gold, Purple, Cha...
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 8/14/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day chasing walleye with friend DT. Second time on Banks lake, started catching fish right after getting bottom bouncers with Walleye Delight lures, in green and orange colors + worms. fishe...
By: wafisherman20
Posted: 8/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2015
Hot Spots: 3
well, back from my european sports adventure for the summer, and naturally what do i want to do? GO FISHIN! so i head out with my dad on a two day adventure for salmon on wenatchee and walleye on bank...
By: clawman
Posted: 8/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/28/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Amazing how quick you can catch a limit now. Either troll a #5 shad rap in purplesecent at 10'-12' of water or throw a 4" swim bait on 1/4 oz head. Look for weeds and fish on the outside edge.
You sh...
Posted: 9/15/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/12/2015
Hot Spots: 3
This report is for both weekends of September!
The Walleye fishing at Banks Lake continues to be absolutely amazing! It is going to continue to be red hot well into this fall. We have been catching...
By: Prazerm
Posted: 9/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2015
Hot Spots: 3
First time fishing Walleye. Watched alot of videos and called some friends for tips. Got on water at Steamboat at 7:30. Headed out across lake from the back of Steamboat Rock. Bottom bouncers and ...
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 9/27/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
trolled Banks lake again with Slow Death rig with silver smile blade on bottom bouncer (1 oz.) put in at Steamboat Rock and went South. Fished 15 - 25 ft at 1.2 mph once we found some fish we kept c...
By: fishin2
Posted: 10/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2015
Hot Spots: 3
My partner and I fished Banks Lake in the Barker Canyon area. We caught twelve walleye 13" to 17" in length. It was a nice fishing.
By: OldFishGuy
Posted: 10/9/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Off to Banks Lake with my Grandson to try for Walleye. Neither of us had ever fished for them before. We bought some of those leaded wire bottom bouncers, a couple colored spinners with double hooks...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 10/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the water at 3 pm to fish this lake that I had never done before. Found my way to the flats and dropped the rods. Since I was solo I was a bit nervous, but I trusted my electronics. Wind was just ...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 10/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Day 2= met up with my buddy and headed to the flats again. Filled with confidence from a pretty quick day before we hit it hard. Today we had to battle to get our fish, but by the end my buddy had his...
By: Fish'n Fever
Posted: 3/22/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
With a forecast for clear skies, and light winds, I loaded my 14' boat into my 5th wheeler, and headed for Steamboat State Park at Banks Lake. While driving there, my son Shane called. Upon learning w...
By: asmith
Posted: 4/1/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Total of 10 walleye, 7 perch and 2 burbot between the two people. All caught using bottom walkers with various color slow death rigs. Biggest was 21.5", 2.5lbs, smallest 12.25". Beautiful day, with...
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for got pictures on the first report.
Took the family out on Banks Lake today! What a amazing day. You couldn't ask for better weather. Kept a few for a fish fry! Released a ton of fish! I st...
By: motley
Posted: 4/3/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/3/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Took the kids over to Banks to get in on the walleye action at Barker flats. On the troll over there from Steam boat park my youngest daughter caught a 29 inch Burbot on a spinner off the bottom. The ...
Posted: 4/15/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks Lake on 4/14 and 4/15. Thursday's weather reminded me of running charter boats in Alaska. I'm glade we remember the raingear. It rained until we had our limits. The drive home was nice an...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/19/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
So after a quick shower and some food we repacked the boat up and set out for Banks to try for some big eyes! Craig had never caught a walleye or tasted one so I was anxious for him to get a chance t...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/20/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wasn't sure where I was going to fish today but let the weather determine it as after Craig left yesterday at 2pm, I got back to Sun Lakes and tidied things up a bit. I had heard that a pretty signif...
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Northrup pt. and decided to try the flats first before moving elsewhere - long story short, stayed
at the north end of the flats the rest of the day, that is until about 1:15PM and the wi...
By: rseas
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What started with a “Fishing this weekend?” text at 6:10 Thursday morning ended being one of the most incredible and productive fishing trips ever. The text string went something like this; “Fishing t...
By: Asianju
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to hit banks lake on Saturday. Boy was it a hot day and I was very thankful that my friend had just purchased a Bimini top cuz it was about 15 degrees cooler under the top.
We arrived f...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 6/28/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well we gave Banks a shot for the first time on the south end at Coulee City. We set out at about 07:30 and within 10 minutes we had the first 2 walleyes. I thought it was going to be a fast day with ...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After a successful morning of Kokanee fishing, we headed to Banks Lake in Coulee City since it was close to the Kokanee fishing lake. We trolled for about 3 hours and never got a single walleye but di...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 8/21/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I had to rate this a four instead of a five because of the drop in water level. The level has dropped about three to four feet in the past week. Before the water started dropping is was very common fo...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 8/30/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After a awesome morning of Kokanee fishing on Deep, we headed to Banks for walleye. We put in at Coulee City and tried north of Goose Island. Tried trolling bottom bouncers with worm harness's and sha...
