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By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 5/29/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well the weather sure has changed in the coulee area. Not like a couple weeks ago when it was in the high 80s lower 90s for about a week. Not that many bass on there beds like there use to be since th...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Steamboat Rock State Park from Mon-Fri.
On Monday, setup camp and had a late lunch. We hit the water and it is windy. Couldn't fish properly at all. No whitecaps but was getting blown ...
By: bluegrouse bill
Posted: 4/16/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My first trip of the 2012 season!!! My buddy Pat & I headed to Bank's Lake hoping it would be warmer than the Spokane area lakes. We launched @Coulee City around 8:00 & the water temps were between...
By: bassplayer17
Posted: 5/14/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Banks is starting to wake up. Fished barker flats in hope of finding mass bass on beds. Was not the case. Found a few on the flat but most still staged in 20 feet. Still a week to two away.
By: Red beard
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Every year my extended family go fishing and jetboating at Steamboat Rock state park on Banks lake for 10 days so this is a report from 9/3 til 9/13.
After last years slug fest from the lake being...
By: davidwat1
Posted: 5/22/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Just returned from a 4 day trip to Banks Lake and the fishing was on fire! The weather patterns were completely stable, we never saw a drop of rain, or even much wind, it was absolutely beautiful and...
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: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/27/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Larry and his Nephews Bill and Dylan went out with me for a day on Banks Lake.
We launched around 6am out of Coulee City and headed out to some shallow flats no deeper than 8 feet and began to fish...
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: billdance
Posted: 7/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a couple days on Banks. Numbers were great, but almost everything was small. Managed a couple of decent LMB, but all the smallies were very small. Still a great time catching tons of fish. M...
By: arniejl
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wife and two of her kids hit Banks for the week-end. It was time to teach. First off was the 13 year old boy who has never cast a line in his life. Gave him the quick run down and off we went at 5:00...
By: arniejl
Posted: 7/10/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
OK, proof is in the pudding that I suck at bass fishing. Fished Banks Lake with my 17 year old kid for the first time ever. Expectations were high but were dashed. I can get skunked at Spanaway, 5 mi...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for an afternoon, since I had to go to Ellensburg. Hey, that's most of the way from Yakima... Isn't it??
41 smallmouth, 6 largemouth. Smallmouth were mostly on crawfish colored tubes...
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Banks Lake B.A.S.S Qualifier
June 11th & 12th
I fished this tournament as a non-boater as I didn't even know I was going to fish it till last week.
We had 18 boats turn out as we launched Satur...
By: waiteman
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the north end of Banks from Thursday thru Saturday. Weather was great and the fish were biting. We were tossing Green curly tail grubs on 1/8 oz jigs and caught all sizes from 8" on up to this ...
By: buzz bomb
Posted: 6/18/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks from 8am to noon. Wind was awful! But the fishing as always was great. Look shallow to 12 feet right now. The fish were full of crawdads! The big one was 3 lbs! Have fun and good luck... ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
while fishing for bass at banks I caught a huge walleye with a brown grub in less than 15 feet of water. lots of small mouth being caught by good fisherman I have caught a few
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: Joey May
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My uncle and I went over to banks lake and tried our luck with the smallmouth bass. We had an absolute ball. Caught a bunch of smallies and the old guy even got him a pretty good size trout.Their were...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun catch. 5 lb small mouth
By: dreamer0131
Posted: 6/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 2
went camping all weekend. fished sunday night and monday morning. nailed them. all fish in 2-6 ft of water. fished the southend of lake. all fish were catch and release. caught alot of fish. here are ...
By: waiteman
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of the year to Banks Lake. Took the boys for 3 days of fishing and exploring the north end. We had to work for our 1/2 dozen Bass and a handfull of Trout but certainly had a good time doing...
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: 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: 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...
