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By: KIRK BYSHEIM
Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My brother and I had our first trip to Banks Lake and in the process of searching for good bass water we found an area that looked real good for trout fishing,the right depth and lots of fish showing ...
By: Phantom18
Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a time! After leaving potholes we arrived at Banks Monday eve. Fished up around Osborne bay for a couple hours managed to boat 1 18.5" walleye and a 14 in smallie. Also lost a couple fish. Th...
By: fishinPA
Posted: 6/26/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 4 days at Banks camping and fishing at Steamboat. Visited the usual haunts. At the Devil's punchbowl I caught a 13 inch largemouth on a chartreuse spinner. Failed to hit smallies along the ro...
By: Tech Guy
Posted: 6/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks for about 5 hrs. The three of us caught about 80-90 Smallies. It was crazzzzzy! We also landed 3 Walleye during that same time. I will post some pix soon of the limits we kept. Banks is b...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/1/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Family and friends annual camping trip to Steamboat Rock. Banks lake did not disappoint.
2 days of fishing
10 walleye (the bite was certainly off, as we caught a dozen other shakers)
about 30 ba...
By: Wirecaster
Posted: 7/2/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks about 8:00 am light wind scattered clouds water temp 62-62. Started at midlake with my grandson and I pulling a firetiger chartreuse crawler harness, found several "dinks" around 12". Afte...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 7/6/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Water temp. 62-67
Air Temp. 75
Depth. 18-25'
Method: Trolling spinner rigs and slow death with crawlers and gulp
Color: Green/silver and brown baitfish
Speed: .7 to 1.1 mph
Started fishing up...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/11/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took my wife on a "date" to try for some walleye. Word was that the bite is hot. A weather swing from high pressure - extreme hot, to low pressure - windy, warm, turned the bite off. We caught 5 wa...
By: stephenfindley
Posted: 7/13/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Our family took our annual fishing trip to Banks Lake this year! We normally fly to Minnesota and fish for walleye, but this year we decided to give eastern Washington walleye a shot.
We tried many...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 3 days at Banks, camped at mid-lake. July 16 thru 18.
On Friday the 16th, 5 keeper walleye, with 3 perch, and a few smallmouth.
On Saturday, 10 keeper walleye, with 4 perch, and a few smallmo...
By: afk
Posted: 8/1/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake around 9:30 & off around 5:00. Fished the million dollar mile east bank. First ever Walleye for my sons two buddies. A perch colorred baitfish blade & green or yellow beads with a nigh...
By: gcbcaddis1
Posted: 8/17/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Was on Banks early and stuck quite a few smallies lot's of dinks and a few in the 2 pond range. Bonus fish was my first walleye. Now I understand what all the fuss is about, those are some good eating...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 8/22/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Trolled the lower half for walleye, from mid-lake launch to the south end. Launched at City Park on the south end since the mid-lake launch was high and dry. Water temps 68-69. Caught 6 keeper wall...
By: BuckThunder
Posted: 8/30/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had our annual Banks lake fishing trip and as usual had a great time. Only caught one large mouth this year, but there were some good sized small mouth biting. My son's friend caught one just shy of...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 9/14/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went with my two best fishing partners and spent the entire day hitting our spots. As usual, one spot was the best and gave up a couple limits. We had a half dozen nice perch as well. Weather was b...
By: The Quadfather
Posted: 9/26/2010
Species:
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a very quick one night visit over to Banks lake. Went with a friend and both of our boys. I have never even been to banks before, so didn't really know the what and where of fishing. We stayed ...
By: Jim Moats
Posted: 10/5/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks from 8am to 4pm around the hump. Fished deep between 45 and 65 feet with 3oz bouncers. Kept four, released four and missed four. Blue sky, no wind, 80+ degrees and very little traffic. ...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 10/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the annual Washington State Bass Federation Scholarship tournament on October 2 and 3. Took second place with a 2-day bag of 26.29 pounds, good for $500. The fall bass pattern at Banks seems ...
By: BMGW
Posted: 10/24/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well finally made it to Banks lake in a round about way. Went over to help a friend get his roof on before the snow flies, nice place up on a hillside overlooking the mouth of the Spokane river. Aft...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 11/15/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 11/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the whole day...dusk till dark...looking for perch. We found 4. But we also found 7 keeper walleye. Everything was deeper than 50 feet, and not on any distinct structure or cover. Water temp...
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: RC
Posted: 2/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake at the North end at Coulee Playland off their dock. (Great People). Fished with slip weight to 6 feet of 6lbs test leader to a nite crawler and white mellow. In 5 hours caught 8 Rain...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our plan was to try Banks on Thursday 3/31, but weather warnings for high winds caused us to postpone for Saturday 4/2 which looked better. At 4 am Saturday I checked the forecast again, and although...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The weather looked tolerable today, although the pressure was dropping, the skies were clearing, and the winds were swinging 90 degrees. Fishable, but not conducive to a bite, since all indications w...
