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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A big thank you to Joe Scmidt a.k.a (fishin'_christian) for his generosity on this trip to my old stomping grounds up at Banks Lake. This years infernal cold weaher has wrought havoc on trying to patt...
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: Lundegard
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We were hoping the walleye might be on the move. They aren't. We covered depths from 85 to 15, without a bite. Jigs of many colors, and spinners with crawler. We caught one rainbow in about 70 fee...
By: Outjack
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Son and I headed to Banks for the first time this year. Put in at Steamboat, and tried to stay out of the wind. We ended up with three walleye, three nice perch, and a nice lunch consisting of roast...
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: 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: 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...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. ...
