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By: bassguy
Posted: 5/11/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I spent a week at Banks and the fishing was tough but good. Fish (largemouth) were really spooky but if you could make a very accurate cast and a quiet one you could get them. They were positioned up ...
By: lowvw
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 5 days over at banks w/ Snohobassguy and all the little rug rats 5-13 to 5-17. Spent the early mornings on Roosevelt by the dam trout fishing, only landed 4 in 3 mornings but the fish were all b...
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing trip was from May 13th through May 17th. Made the 4 hour drive over to Steamboat Rock State park on Wednesday. The introductory weather was not great. Powerful winds made it tough the first...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/20/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took some much needed time away from work and took my grandson out of school(some thing my dad never did for me).
We spent 3 days at the "Bank" for some non stop action.We caught smallmouth all da...
By: lowvw
Posted: 8/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for a three day weekend-8/21-8/24 with Snohobassguy. Fished all day. Caught a lot of small fish. For every fish over a pound landed 5 or 6 under 12". Fished plastics from 10'-40' dependi...
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 8/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Banks trip from 8/22 to 8/24. Stayed at Steamboat. First morning we had trouble with the motor, so just used the trolling motor. I hooked into 2.5 LMB first cast with a senko. Friend caught a 3+ S...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Kind of a late report, but it's been a busy week. Went camping last weekend (22-26 Aug) with the family out at Banks Lake. Stayed at Sunbanks Resort in one of the waterfront cabins so I could pull m...
By: themusicman5
Posted: 9/22/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/17/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We stayed at Steamboat for a couple of days, hoping to catch some Walleye. Caught a few, but not big at all. Mostly trolling. But decided to try the bottom with worms. Caught several nice smallmou...
By: outdoor chris
Posted: 6/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
set up camp Thursday night, caught a few bass off of the boat launch while waiting for friend to park the truck after putting the boat into the water. Water temp. was a bit cold, 56, cooled down from...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Good trip to Banks lake over the weekend. Weather was a factor, due to much colder than average temperatures, both for the air and water. Smallmouth bite was pretty good, until temps dropped almost ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Slow fishing. Weather was great until we were blown off at 1:30 PM. Six people fishing for 5 hours and not a single bite. Tried many different spots with no fish. Worst I've ever seen Banks lake. At t...
By: CK14
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
had a club tournament on the weekend on banks lake. fishing was pretty slow with mostly small fishing being caught. i got a limit each day pretty easily but most fish were 13"-15". caught most of my f...
By: fishnislife
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks this weekend for vacation with some friends and took along some gear. Got out on the water Sat. morning at 5:30am and fished until 8:30am. Hit up a couple of points along the rocky banks...
By: Keith
Posted: 8/24/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well waited all year to go to Banks with my buddy and my kid. Got over there on Thursday morning and launched and got blasted by 6 foot waves all morning. The bilge pump broke and had to head in to ge...
By: gangan_2000
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Headed out for Memorial day weekend to Grand Coulee area with family. First tried at Steamboat Rock park (near the boat launch) around 4PM-6PM, no luck. Then tried from the shoreline of HWY155, 7PM-8P...
By: bassendave
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 2
banks lake jamboree update
hi i just got home from the 37 annual banks lake jamboree i caught a lot of under size smallmouth and a my first ever walleye on day 1 on day 2 i caught 2 keepers that w...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I fished the steemboat area from 10:30 am untill 5:00 pm. We caught smallmouth ranging in size from 8" to 3 lbs. Probably caught 20+ fish. Weather was overcast and cool with light boat ...
By: Jordan
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My dad, my buddy, and I caught 64 bass. about 55 of them were between 1.5 lbs to 3.5 lbs. the others were pretty small. of those I think 5 or 6 of them were Largemouth and those were all 1.5 to 2 lbs...
By: outdoor chris
Posted: 5/21/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
pulled up to the boat launch about 7 AM, beautiful day! First order of the day was to turn on the depth finder to see what the water temp. was as this is very important to bass fishing this time of y...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/23/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started to fish for walleye, but after two that were 23" and four smaller ones, the bite slowed by 9 AM. We tried for bass around Steamboat rock and took some dinks, mostly on power grubs and 1/8 oz....
By: senkoboy
Posted: 10/28/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
fished banks lake for several days fishing was slow for me not being the best bass fisherman in the world. fished mostly with grubs in about 20 ft of water, caught a few good sized fish but not many s...
By: danielt
Posted: 8/28/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks Sunday and caught a bunch of short fish in deeper water but ended up catching the bigger smallies in under 6ft. Drop shot, drop shot, drop shot...
By: gcbcaddis1
Posted: 7/16/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a hot day on Banks Lake and the weather was not the only thing that was hot.
Casting lipless crank baits up against the rip rap next to the road produced well for me.
Fishing stayed hot until ...
By: CK14
Posted: 8/7/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
after the potholes we went over to banks lake for a couple days and they were hitting pretty good. in the evenings you couldn't keep em off cranks and in the morning it was the same thing with dropsho...
By: joebass
Posted: 8/9/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Great day at Banks!
Launched at Northrup Point and headed to the west side of Steamboat. Dropping jig-heads x 4" Pumpkin Lizards and bam bam! It was hot all day. Surprised me as I caught the big...
