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By: nerka nailer
Posted: 11/20/2020
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We planned a trip to Banks lake and found the Walleye bite to be tough. We decided to try fishing a new species to us, whitefish! We ended up anchoring in 120ft of water. We found that fish were stack...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 11/29/2020
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2 of our whitefish adventure started out rough! We woke up to a ton of smoke from the fires. Thankfully we had some respirators packed just in case. We hit the water in the morning and decided to ...
By: igotfishon
Posted: 12/15/2023
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/10/2023
Hot Spots: 0
So I heard white fish when smoked, they are delicious. Lake white fish at Banks Lake are one of the biggest in Washington State and hard to catch from shore. This sounds like a good challenge so grab ...
By: seniorkodger
Posted: 5/13/2024
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2024
Hot Spots: 0
fished in 45 ft of water, using bottom walker, double whammy w/ worm,got 8 walleye, 5 nice, 3dinks, 6am to noon. 2nd day almost identical. I think walleye are coming off spawn, one of them emitting mi...
By: Noskills72
Posted: 4/10/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for the first time, this weekend, out of all weekends. Friday was windy, but got b.o.w for a few hours. No luck. Saturday was nuts! 30+ gusts, so searched up and down, for shore fishing...
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: 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: hewesbob
Posted: 6/13/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Just got home from three days at Banks. Wednesday the 10th we caught 70-80 sub legal walleye, all were 12-15 inches also nailed a 4 1/2 pound small mouth and 8 perch in the 9-10 inch range. Thursday w...
By: yearofthecraig
Posted: 6/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Fished Banks Lake from Steamboat north for three days. Smallmouth were very hard to find, but got one of note in the shade off of Steamboat, casting a sinking Rapala along the shore. The 15inch wall...
By: buc
Posted: 6/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/16/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Banks was on; jigs 23' green watermelon lots of small ones @ first then found em' on rock slides average 16 to 18 "s. bigger fish are together. back soon for more freezer pack n.
New July limit w...
By: kokanee1
Posted: 6/25/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/21/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Okay this is a 3 day report form June 21-23. Went to Banks lake with some friends. Planned to fish hard, tube and get the guys up on water skis when it got hot out. Arrived Sunday around noon and s...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/4/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
As of July 1st the slot limit on Banks Lake has permanently moved to the 12"-22" and 8 fish per day limit. Limits are now the norm, not the exception.
The size of the walleye have been from the ta...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/7/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I headed to Banks Lake this morning with my son and 2 grandsons. The boys don't have a lot of fishing experience so I thought the abundant walleye would keep their interest up. I set them up with li...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 7/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
We(Evie and I) fished Banks from 7-3 thru 7-6 every chance we could between wind events and 100 plus degree heat. We stayed at Coulee City park(what a zoo on a holiday weekend), with the wind blowing ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
If you have kids and want to get them on fish, Banks Lake is the spot to hit. The walleye action is basically not stop for fish running 15-17 inches with walleye up to 22-24 inches being taken as well...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 7/13/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went up to Banks on Friday to test a theory I had and it was right. I didnt put a spinner on until around noon and all of the 22-26" eyes were caught casting to shelves after I marked the fish. I use...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 7/14/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/12/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Went with Glenn to Banks on Sunday to chase some eyes. We started at the south end near the islands and only managed 3 dinks. They were holding in 25-30 FOW and hit our worn harnesses fairly lightly. ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
It is actually pretty amazing at the number of walleye that are in Banks Lake this year. Limits have been the norm on all of my trips.
The crankbait bite has been fast and furious for the first co...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks today, got on the water at 8am and fished the slides. Was hoping for a repeat of last trip with the shiver minnow but they didnt want that this time. Didnt get a fish jigging at all. So went...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 7/27/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Another day at banks and another 50+ fish day. The big gals where there again I just couldn't land them broke two 26" off at the boat then got to looking at my NEW line I put on and it had Knicks abou...
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake Walleye is absolutely on fire right now! We had a phenomenal day catching Walleye, and the bite is going to stay hot!
Trolling Mack's Lure Slowdeath Rigs from 1.0 to 1.2 mph in 20ft-35f...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/29/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hot, hot, hot. The walleye bite is simply on fire on Banks Lake! Even better, the fish are getting bigger by the day.
We got well over 50 fish today and kept only walleye that were at least 16 inc...
