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By: tcb
Posted: 5/30/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for Memorial Day Weekend. The action was good, lots of smallies and a few perch just like the earlier report. Got one 28" Wally. Windy, Windy, WINDY!! We couldn't get the boat off th...
By: ripper
Posted: 4/8/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to Banks lake on Sat. and Sun., what a great place, this was my first trip over here. Sat. morning dawned clear and cold, about 36 deg., but it warmed quickly. Started out on Barker flats...
By: 1cast
Posted: 5/31/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake a little after noon and got to fish for a few hours until the wind got out of control. Ended up in punch bowl until the wind died down enough to get back out to the main lake. Only fou...
By: PAYohann
Posted: 6/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Banks Lake, fishing with 2 friends, started around 10 AM. After snooping around the sand dunes we went trolling but the wind came up so we just let the wind blow us across the lake in front of the sta...
By: rhodes
Posted: 7/1/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was tough, the fish are in post spawn. I believe there just moving to deeper water.
There are many in the 12 to 15.5 inch range, 20 to 30 feet. The larger ones i got at 32 feet...
By: jfevold
Posted: 8/31/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished a couple days last week, most recent being Saturday.
Fished the south lake by coulee city on Saturday the 21st: 1 5# small mouth, 1 16" walleye, 1 12" Perch. All caught on bottom bouncers ...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 2/18/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went looking for kokanee (and rainbow). Graphed several huge concentrations of fish in very deep water, but they wouldn't take any offerings. The fish could have been whitefish, or carp, or suspende...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hello:
I am a local fisherman, they know me here at Coulee playland...... I had a good day today fishing here on Banks Lake...... I caught two nice Kokanee, they wern't as big as the one that I ...
By: jdozier
Posted: 6/8/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started out last Monday on Osullivan and knocked the walleye out! caught our limits before 5 that day fishing in 25 feet of water off the humps of lower crab creek while all the other fisherman were u...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: maxlilly
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We hit Banks for a 3 days of fishing Fri., Sat. and Sunday hoping the water temp. was up and moving fish in but no such luck. Water was 45 to 47 depending on your location, Sunday it finally reached 4...
By: capnhook
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Just spent 3 days in central and eastern Washington. Mainly fished Banks Lake but took a couple of side trips, one to Jameson and another to Blue Lake.
Banks was full of all kinds of fish too bashf...
By: PBWADE89
Posted: 5/6/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well I finally made it out to Banks for the first time this year. I started off fishing smallies and was able to find a few of them in Old Devils lake area. I think we boated 7 bass in two hours. Not ...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks Friday and Saturday, water temp was 61-63 weather was mostly sunny with light breeze from time to time. Fished midlake to south end trolling cranks in 15-20 fow. Lots of dinks and a few good...
By: rhodes
Posted: 6/23/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I've been fishing crawler harness rigs and plugs. fishing has been real spotty, lots of no fish...
surface temps right around 60, been a freaky year. a few nice ones far and few betwween.
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