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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: 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: 6/8/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Two boats with two of us in each boat. Went after bass and did very well, until the wind got too difficult to maneuver. Water temp 54-55. Weather NE winds to 15, with heavy rain. All bait types wor...
By: lowvw
Posted: 6/10/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 6-2 to 6-7 over at Banks w/ Snohobassguy. Spent the majority of the time bass fishing and a couple of mornings out for walleye in the punch bowl. First time over there with the new boat so...
By: KIRK BYSHEIM
Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My brother and I decided to bring my boat along on our grimes trip and try our luck on Banks.This was my first time ever on this lake and we really had a great day.We caught about 10 smallies each,the...
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: Anonymous
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the entire weekend, and for numerous species of fish.
LowVW and I left the Everett area on Thursday right after work. We arrived at Steamboat Rock state park around 7 and immedi...
By: silverking0
Posted: 5/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Ok Here we go spent most of last week at banks. fishing was good I caught the biggest largemouth I have ever caught on the 25th A big fat 21" long by 15 dia" 5.25lb monster.Yes she went back in the la...
By: outdoor chris
Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This day was the first time out on Banks for us this season. The weather was very nice all week, warm, sunny and no wind...very condusive for getting the smallies to go on the bite. After leaving ou...
By: bassguy
Posted: 5/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 4 days at Banks lake and what a great time. Largemouth and Smallmouth were abundant. On Friday most fish were off in a little bit deeper water and not on beds. Did see a few that looked like the...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I had planned for a week to take our daughters to Banks, since it is spring break. We knew what the weather forecast was, but hoped for a little bit of a break. We got no break whatsoev...
By: bassmasterderek
Posted: 8/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Sparky and I headed to Banks lake on Friday. Tried to prefish a little before our tournament the next morning. Major winds were on the water. Sparky helped keep the boat on spots with the big motor ...
By: RJD
Posted: 7/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Between the wind and the rain fishing on Banks was HOT! My daughter and I were into smallies and walleyes Friday evening and Sunday morning. Nothing real big but plenty of rod bending action. Best ba...
By: Jordan
Posted: 7/31/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
caught a few smaller smallies around steamboat.
also got a few dink perch. could not find any crappie or walleye
By: jsb7273
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
So we spent 4 days camping at Sunbanks on Banks Lake. There's a reason why this is my favorite fishery. In 3.5 days of fishing, typically about 4 hours in the early morning and 4 hours at night, we ca...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 5/31/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first time fishing Banks, and it definitely wont be my last. My buddy D was kind enough to let me back seat his boat. Fished Saturday 11 am - dark, and Sunday from 5:30 am- noon. Used plas...
By: stmanipulous23
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to banks hit the lake about 5:30 in the morning. Tried a few different spots but, ended up having a little luck off of Steamboat rock. Caught a few dinks including one that was a hair bigger ...
By: bassguy
Posted: 6/2/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake last week and had a blast. Sorry not alot of pics just some fun ones but the fishing was great. Lots of nice 2-3 lbers as you can see from my pics some real "monsters" too, LOL. Fish...
By: Fish On!
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the past 4 days camping at Banks Lake enjoying the hot sunny weather. I'm not a big bass/walleye fisherman, so wasn't really expecting to do so well. Temps were in the 80's-90's, with lit...
By: boogerman800
Posted: 6/9/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Let me start by saying I moved here from alaska last summer. So bass fishing is new to me.I have been on roosevelt and had good luck but all were really small. So I have read and seen pics of the bass...
By: birdhunter
Posted: 6/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report on WL.com. My brother and his son came to visit from Las Vegas and wanted to go fishing. I had wanted to make the trip over to Banks so we set out Sunday afternoon to fish Mond...
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 5/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
LowVW and I took our float tubes across the pass and got to Banks Lake around 5 pm on Friday. We stayed at Steamboat Rock. That first night we each landed one each. The fish have not moved to shall...
By: lowvw
Posted: 5/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Snohobassguy and myself did a quick weekend trip in the tubes to prefish for our 5 day vacation back to banks here in 8 days and counting. Got in late friday night and fished for about an hour and pic...
By: Keith
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to Banks from 5/7/09 to 5/10/09 with a group of people. We got there about 10am on the 7th and after getting checked into the hotel we got on the lake about noon. We ran to Steamboat first a...
