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By: Waderjs
Posted: 6/5/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2019
Hot Spots: 1
This report is for a 4-day trip to Banks Lake with my Brother. The first 2 days we had a hard time finding many fish. Caught several perch, a couple bass and a few walleye each day. Our usual spots ar...
By: WaterSwatter
Posted: 6/16/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Banks lake heating up for some good walleye fishing.. report a little late but better late than never..
Saturday fished the lower end of banks outside of coulee city.. weather was overcast threaten...
By: stevertd2010
Posted: 7/17/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I had pretty much the same experience as Fishindoc. Although we fished from Monday to Friday. Mostly just in the morning for a few hours each day, but sometimes went out later in the day. Our main ...
By: walleyemark
Posted: 8/7/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2019
Hot Spots: 0
3 Aug 19 at Banks lake
Took my buddy Jay out to Banks to try and find some summertime walleyes. We launched out of Osborne Bay and headed out to the main lake where we encountered a bit more wind t...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 6/5/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
With water temps climbing into the 60's it was time to start hitting the post-spawn Walleye bite at Banks Lake. The lake was very busy with 20+ boat fishing around Steamboat. I started off trolling in...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 10/20/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/11/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks lake in search of some Walleye. The air was smokey from the fires but we didnt let that keep us off the water. We stopped in at coulee playland resort for some worms before hitting the ...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 4/16/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/9/2021
Hot Spots: 0
I was really excited to head to Eastern Washington and fish Banks lake for some walleye. We arrived just after sunrise to a perfectly calm lake. I decided to head off toward the westside of steamboat...
By: morrow50
Posted: 5/25/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2021
Hot Spots: 1
This is from Tuesday till Thursday . Launched at steamboat rock state park . Fished three days . Some days were excellent weather the others were very windy .On Tuesday there was an armada of boats so...
By: walleygator88
Posted: 6/17/2022
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Hey its the "Gator", had a chance to get away for the day on Friday the 17th and do some walleye fishing on one of my most favorite Lakes to walleye fish, Banks Lake, this is the Lake that I learned h...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun catch. 5 lb small mouth
By: danyole
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
No pictures but me and the family were camping at Sun lakes Resort on Park Lake. Went boating and drank lots of alcohol lol. Catching no fish at all except for my little cousins who were fishing off t...
By: poleadra
Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Several different spots. Actually got 1 bite. Apparently it was just too hot that day. Saw a whole bunch of fish swimming underwater... but they just were not interested in eating.
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/20/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Steamboat Rock, with the intention of fishing at Rufus. Never been to Banks before. Didn't know anything about it.
Decided to try it for a bit. Caught some nice bass. And walleye. G...
By: anakpinoy4
Posted: 7/28/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Stayed at Steamboat Rock State Park from July 25th - 27th. Fished all 3 days during the afternoon for about 2 or 3 hours mostly on our boat. Carp were like rats in the water here and all over the l...
By: gangan_2000
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Headed out for Memorial day weekend to Grand Coulee area with family. First tried at Steamboat Rock park (near the boat launch) around 4PM-6PM, no luck. Then tried from the shoreline of HWY155, 7PM-8P...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 12/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked into some nice trout on the south end of banks. All have been large and fat. Great fighters too. Been using power eggs and throwing kastmasters in chrome from the banks. Great time to fish for...
By: outdoor chris
Posted: 5/21/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
pulled up to the boat launch about 7 AM, beautiful day! First order of the day was to turn on the depth finder to see what the water temp. was as this is very important to bass fishing this time of y...
By: glenn
Posted: 5/11/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks with my wife and 2 children(5&6). Temp was in the low 70's, Partly cloudy and the water temp was approximately 55 wind was light. I was using a craw fish jointed rapala, my son a brigh...
By: senkoboy
Posted: 10/28/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
fished banks lake for several days fishing was slow for me not being the best bass fisherman in the world. fished mostly with grubs in about 20 ft of water, caught a few good sized fish but not many s...
By: gcbcaddis1
Posted: 7/16/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a hot day on Banks Lake and the weather was not the only thing that was hot.
Casting lipless crank baits up against the rip rap next to the road produced well for me.
Fishing stayed hot until ...
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...
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: 6/19/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my cousin from Cali and brother to Banks for some smallmouth action. Neither one of them have ever caught one before. Fishing was great even with the winds at first and a slow start. Fish ar...
