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By: robberelite96
Posted: 6/1/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was awesome. Caught 40+ fish between 2 of us. Biggest pushing 5lbs and lots of 3+. Used tubes, grubs, and drop shot. Lots of fish on beds but also a lot over shallow rock once the wind picked ...
By: tmusky1
Posted: 6/4/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My son and I fished Banks from May 31 - June3. We actually went to Banks with the intentions to target walleye but the fishing was really slow for us (and numerous other people) so we went with plan B...
By: clam man
Posted: 6/12/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Oh my Gosh!
This was the best fishing lake I have ever been on. Not only did I catch my first smallmouth bass, I easily crushed my record for largemouth and biggest fish ever (a carp hooked on wheat...
By: y2says
Posted: 6/19/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my cousin from Cali and brother to Banks for some smallmouth action. Neither one of them have ever caught one before. Fishing was great even with the winds at first and a slow start. Fish ar...
By: CK14
Posted: 6/27/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Day 1 - the first day for us was mainly run & gun. we tried all over the steamboat rock area, the punchbowl, and barker flats. we had minimal success with only a couple over 12". we were discouraged t...
By: oahe80
Posted: 6/29/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
What a lake! I NEVER tire of fishing here. The weather was o.k. The few clouds made it comfortable weather to fish. The morning was very windy but, although it made it somewhat difficult to maneuv...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/16/2003
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/16/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Despite the weather, Banks was HOT. 4:30am Friday, I hit the rock structures in the mouth of the punchbowl. Found 54 degree water and hit several Smallies on the topwaters. As soon as the sun came ove...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2003
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2003
Hot Spots: 0
You can catch tons and I mean tons of smallys at Banks this time of year. In fact you can from early spring thru fall. Early spring I took out a few clients and Crankbaits and Rattletraps were the tic...
By: hewesfisher
Posted: 5/6/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Made the long trip to Banks yesterday and actually caught some fish. We went with the hope of catching some smallmouth and some walleye. Well, we caught some smallmouth but no walleye. I'm sure the la...
By: senkoboy
Posted: 5/16/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2007
Hot Spots: 0
fished banks lake from 05/02/2007 thru the 12th started out slow but as the water temp warmed fishing improved dramatically caught lots of Smallmouth to 4LBS. Using top water plugs, Plastics and crank...
By: y2says
Posted: 5/17/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
First time to Banks and my friend and I tore them up. We fished all day Monday and most of Tuesday. Tons of beds with fish on them. Some were in spawn and post spawn mode. Caught a lot of bass and...
By: Edgeran
Posted: 5/29/2007
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks Lk. for Memorial Day weekend and had an amazing time. The fishing and the partying meshed together like mashed potatoes and gravy....umm. Anyway, we caught a walleye, a few perch, a coup...
By: Don Wittenberger
Posted: 9/7/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Tom and I fished Banks Lake from Sep. 4-6. Dense fog-like smoke from wildfires shrouded the lake. We could not see the opposite shore. We fished for smallmouth on the west side of Steamboat ...
By: stevertd2010
Posted: 7/17/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I had pretty much the same experience as Fishindoc. Although we fished from Monday to Friday. Mostly just in the morning for a few hours each day, but sometimes went out later in the day. Our main ...
By: boyscoutman
Posted: 8/16/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
caught a bunch of smallies and one small walleye my first one was using small single hook crank bait switched to a black rooster tail, and caught a 2 pounder.
By: DAR
Posted: 4/14/2018
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for Smallmouth Bass. Only caught one. But the trout were right up on shore acting like bass. Hooked over 20 between two of us. All around 18". Casting tubes was very effective. Water t...
By: DAR
Posted: 5/6/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Good day on Banks except for the wind. 20 smallies and a 3lb trout. Very few boats at the south end and they were all after Walleyes.
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 6/3/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent some R&R at Lake Chelan with the wife, then my son and I ran over to Banks for one day. We rented a boat from Coulee Playland, and hit the areas of the lake that had been recommended on this sit...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/9/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Annual camping trip time. Heading to Banks and stayed from Monday-Thursday. Was scared of the forecast though. And for the most part, they were right.
On our drive there, we steadily saw the temp...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Not only are the walleye cooking on Banks but so are the smallmouth bass. The smallmouth are currently relating to water depths of 3-10 feet and are clobbering crankbaits. Today we hit numerous smalli...
By: lsnelso2
Posted: 4/27/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/25/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Had a great weekend fishing Banks. Caught a few but had to work pretty hard to find them, I think the cold front that rolled through over the weekend slowed the bite down a little bit. I was able to c...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/12/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Banks from Monday-Thursday.
Taking the puppers on her first camping trip. She did very well on the 4 hour ride.
Arrived late at about 4:30PM. Got everything setup and made dinner. Phi...
Posted: 9/12/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2022
Hot Spots: 0
My family and I went out for 3 days for Labor Day Weekend. 2 at Lake Roosevelt and 1 at Banks lake. We easily caught 250 smallmouth. Lots of dinks and clones. Average fish were 1-2 1/2 pounds. We cou...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 12/10/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hooked into some nice trout on the south end of banks. All have been large and fat. Great fighters too. Been using power eggs and throwing kastmasters in chrome from the banks. Great time to fish for...
By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 4/10/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake from shore for about an hour and a half. Caught one beautiful male Rainbow 17 inches long. the bite died and the sun was getting hot so we went shooting!
