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By: silverbaws
Posted: 6/13/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 4 am with plastics and ultralight bobber jig setups ready to fish all day. Landed a half dozen or so large mouth in the 15-17inch range with the largest being 17.5inches (the one in t...
By: Clear-Waters
Posted: 12/10/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We had a great 2 days on the lake plenty of bass all day cuaght mostly on craink baits and suspending jerkbaits fish averaged 3-4 lbs bites were during the morning evening and some during mid day caug...
By: jeebles121
Posted: 8/11/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wow. I went to Banks lake today, to my secret spot, targeting smallies, caught my limit.
Tried a jig and i casted jigged twice then bam i thought it was a smallie but it was a huge 16 inch perch, lat...
By: kjtemp
Posted: 6/20/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from the 11th to the 17th on the south end of banks lake. Stayed at the city park and had my dads boat at the dock. Unfortunetly It got broken into twice along with several other boats. The ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/18/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The smallmouth bass fishing on Banks Lake continues to be outstanding. The smallmouth continue to located in shallow rocky flats and can be found from Steamboat Rock all the way down south to Coulee ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Smallmouth bass fishing on Banks Lake is now red hot. Took 3 clients for smallmouth on Banks on Sunday, June 8th. The smallmouth are now on shallow gravel flats with some on their beds. It was ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/22/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Smallmouth fishing has been off the charts on Banks Lake! Today we had ideal conditions for a top water bite. Clouds, a little rain, calm water, and the smallmouth did not disappoint. We caught fish o...
By: silverking0
Posted: 5/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Ok Here we go spent most of last week at banks. fishing was good I caught the biggest largemouth I have ever caught on the 25th A big fat 21" long by 15 dia" 5.25lb monster.Yes she went back in the la...
By: KIRK BYSHEIM
Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My brother and I decided to bring my boat along on our grimes trip and try our luck on Banks.This was my first time ever on this lake and we really had a great day.We caught about 10 smallies each,the...
By: cast&blast
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks Lake Sunday on way way home from a coulpe of days of Trout Fishing in the Sun Lakes area. We launched on the southwest end of the lake. Fished around rocky points and steep drops. Stayed clo...
By: bass2elk
Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks Lake this last Saturday and caught a few fish with my daughter. It was sunny but windy. Water temps were 43 to 46.8. Nice day overall.
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 9/13/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks Lake Friday about 10 am fished til 5:30. Started just out from the launch at Northrup searching for bass. Targeting 15-20 ft of water alternating between a jig and crankbait hit a few smalli...
By: Keith
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to Banks from 5/7/09 to 5/10/09 with a group of people. We got there about 10am on the 7th and after getting checked into the hotel we got on the lake about noon. We ran to Steamboat first a...
By: bassguy
Posted: 5/11/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I spent a week at Banks and the fishing was tough but good. Fish (largemouth) were really spooky but if you could make a very accurate cast and a quiet one you could get them. They were positioned up ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/27/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Smallmouth fishing at Banks Lake continues to be red hot! The south end of Banks at Coulee City is the place to be. Today we had wind so it was all about casting crankbaits along shallow rocky flats. ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Not only are the walleye cooking on Banks but so are the smallmouth bass. The smallmouth are currently relating to water depths of 3-10 feet and are clobbering crankbaits. Today we hit numerous smalli...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/6/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wondeful scenic views, good ice!
Fished a couple areas of Banks, no luck. I couldn't locate any hungry fish on this lake. It's a large lake and I just don't know where to concentrate my efforts. T...
By: tricities-sean
Posted: 1/31/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks lake Friday, January 25th for some perch fishing through the ice. I was at the Coulee City boat basin/launch. I was on the ice at 6:45am to 12:30pm. The ice was 10+ inches thick. Bored 5...
By: caroleshedd
Posted: 1/14/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had no luck on Banks Lake off the dock and out to the island. Ice was good but nothing biting.
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 1/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
After a drive through the Yakima River Canyon, which had many deer, eagles, and wild sheep, I headed to Banks Lake. When I got there I felt kind of odd, given that there were no other people out ther...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 3/11/2017
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/10/2017
Hot Spots: 1
This is going to be a long winded report. So please, bear with me. I fished from Friday night, March 10th till Saturday morning March 11th.
Arrived in electric city, Friday around 1400, had to ki...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 7/26/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks to a area I was told Kokanee could be found and sure enough, we found them. The bite was a little slow, then somebody turned on the lights and the bite was on for about 30 minutes, then ...
By: boyscoutman
Posted: 8/16/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
caught a bunch of smallies and one small walleye my first one was using small single hook crank bait switched to a black rooster tail, and caught a 2 pounder.
By: haverman83
Posted: 11/27/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 11/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
I'm going to just make this short and sweet a few buddies and I fished banks for walleye fri thru sun and all I can say is we killed them smallest fish probably 3lbs but almost all of our 25 to 30 wal...
By: DAR
Posted: 4/14/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for Smallmouth Bass. Only caught one. But the trout were right up on shore acting like bass. Hooked over 20 between two of us. All around 18". Casting tubes was very effective. Water t...
