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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I spent 3 1/2 days fishing on Banks Lake from 5/28 through 6/1. This is only my third time on Banks, so I am still learning where to find the walleyes. For us, the fishing was hit and miss...
By: outdoor chris
Posted: 6/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
set up camp Thursday night, caught a few bass off of the boat launch while waiting for friend to park the truck after putting the boat into the water. Water temp. was a bit cold, 56, cooled down from...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Good trip to Banks lake over the weekend. Weather was a factor, due to much colder than average temperatures, both for the air and water. Smallmouth bite was pretty good, until temps dropped almost ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Kind of a late report, but it's been a busy week. Went camping last weekend (22-26 Aug) with the family out at Banks Lake. Stayed at Sunbanks Resort in one of the waterfront cabins so I could pull m...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/20/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took some much needed time away from work and took my grandson out of school(some thing my dad never did for me).
We spent 3 days at the "Bank" for some non stop action.We caught smallmouth all da...
By: stmanipulous23
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to banks hit the lake about 5:30 in the morning. Tried a few different spots but, ended up having a little luck off of Steamboat rock. Caught a few dinks including one that was a hair bigger ...
By: crappiekiller101
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
NOTHING. tried fishing in about 30 feet to 10 feet of water. the water temp. was only 40 degrees. saw carp jumping of course. Marked no fish. Snow and then sun. It was horrible. The water needs to war...
By: jsb7273
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
So we spent 4 days camping at Sunbanks on Banks Lake. There's a reason why this is my favorite fishery. In 3.5 days of fishing, typically about 4 hours in the early morning and 4 hours at night, we ca...
By: birdhunter
Posted: 6/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report on WL.com. My brother and his son came to visit from Las Vegas and wanted to go fishing. I had wanted to make the trip over to Banks so we set out Sunday afternoon to fish Mond...
By: Fish On!
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the past 4 days camping at Banks Lake enjoying the hot sunny weather. I'm not a big bass/walleye fisherman, so wasn't really expecting to do so well. Temps were in the 80's-90's, with lit...
By: outdoor chris
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This day was the first time out on Banks for us this season. The weather was very nice all week, warm, sunny and no wind...very condusive for getting the smallies to go on the bite. After leaving ou...
By: shock_me
Posted: 8/10/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
went to banks from friday -sunday (from oak harbor wa) boated 6 walleye and 35 smallise 1 trout and 1 carp (lost two lures to carp this trip) went with a buddy of mine and he caught his first walleye....
By: ilv2fish
Posted: 6/14/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't done a post in awhile due to computer issues and watching our grandson's play ball! Me and the Mrs. thought we'd pick some lakes this year that we haven't fished yet, hit curlew a couple of w...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks 5/10 and 5/11
Sat we started fishing about 7am.
Lake nearly dead calm, and though out the day very light, great day wind wise on banks.
We started hooking up with small mouth right away c...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Dave Graybill and I hit the Banks Lake yesterday in an attempt to catch walleye, smallmouth, and rainbow trout. Coulee Playland Resort is holding the Triple Fish Challenge on April 26-27 where angler...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the water before 7am, steady wind on a cool Easter/Birthday morning, but clear skies and promise in the air.
1st of all I fished till about noon, mostly mid lake. I saw only 2 other boats al...
By: Whyaskus
Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Great fishing! We got out on the lake around 1pm and fished till 7pm. Caught a ton of small, small mouth bass but we also hooked a few 5-7 lbs. We used surface poppers and worked the banks near steamb...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 8/22/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks the last 2 days. 8/20 and 8/21. Used top water frogs mostly through the slop and senkos, worms around the edges of the slop. Had only one big hit on top water frog right when it was almos...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to banks lake again and fished for bass for about 2 days only with 1 largemouth bass C&R. Used topwater frogs/mice and senkos in lots of colors. Also used a buzz bait through the reeds and grass....
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/16/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Fished Banks with the Packernut yesterday in the steamboat rock area. The fishing was again on fire with lots of action. We managed 57 walleyes between the two of us. We released a ton of small fish a...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Warm water conditions on Cda Lake have had me on the sidelines as far as pike fishing goes lately. When the eater cools down they should pick up. That hasn't happened yet so I thought I would get in o...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/26/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/25/2018
Hot Spots: 0
The Packernut and I decided to give the pike a weekend off while we went to chase a few walleyes at Banks Lake.
We were on the water around 7:15 am and had out first fish in the boat by about 7:30...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/4/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had another great day on banks lake targeting walleyes. This will probably be my last trip after walleyes. I'll likely be on the shelf this weekend with family in town, then it will be time to fish ...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/9/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Annual camping trip time. Heading to Banks and stayed from Monday-Thursday. Was scared of the forecast though. And for the most part, they were right.
On our drive there, we steadily saw the temp...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/9/2024
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Over 3 days of pounding the shore of punch bowl with frogs, worms and crank bait caught 4 medium bass on crank baits. Not quite warm enough - fish are still sleeping.
