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By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 5/5/2018
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/3/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Mowed the lawn on Wednesday because Thursday the winds were supposed to lighter making a better day to fish. First time out in the boat for my wife, Judy. Maybe the last time! Ha! Ha! We trolled B...
By: davedavey
Posted: 2/4/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at banks lake. Fishing from the shore. Got my limit in 1.5 hours. the strike was on as soon as i got bait in the water. I posted a video under the video section and lake section. Just l...
By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 1/19/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/19/2019
Hot Spots: 0
First fish of the New Year! I have made 7 trips to fish this year and I finally got this nice 16" rainbow! It was still and foggy this morning so I made the trip to the Coulee City marina. Fished ...
By: FishinNut
Posted: 1/26/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/26/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks Lake today and the fishing was great. Got there late. Launched at the Coulee City launch and started fishing about a half mile out at around 10AM. 10 minutes after I got my line out I...
By: Kfedka
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Pulled out 6 rainbow trout averaging 18". Used worms and white marshmallows, Fished from 6 till dark. Reeled in a 16" smallmouth on a dark purple cury tail, as well as a 22" walleye on a black curly t...
By: poleadra
Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Several different spots. Actually got 1 bite. Apparently it was just too hot that day. Saw a whole bunch of fish swimming underwater... but they just were not interested in eating.
By: PAYohann
Posted: 6/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Banks Lake, fishing with 2 friends, started around 10 AM. After snooping around the sand dunes we went trolling but the wind came up so we just let the wind blow us across the lake in front of the sta...
By: KIRK BYSHEIM
Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My brother and I had our first trip to Banks Lake and in the process of searching for good bass water we found an area that looked real good for trout fishing,the right depth and lots of fish showing ...
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: 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: 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: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 4/8/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Had a great time on Banks like always. The trout are biting like crazy from the shores. Fished 3 days and caught plenty of big bows. Fished the Coulee city marina area at mid afternoons and evenings. ...
By: bottom feeder
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and fishing buddy, Connie, fished off the boat launch at Banks Lake for two days and caught 7 nice pigs about 5 to 6 lbs. These boys were fat, and really tested our 8 lb. test. Put about th...
By: bottom feeder
Posted: 12/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My lady friend and I tried to connect with fish Friday at Rufus Woods at Chief Joe but nothing shakin there, but a different drive for both of us at Grand Coulee. A enjoyable day sight-seeing and fis...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 1/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
After a drive through the Yakima River Canyon, which had many deer, eagles, and wild sheep, I headed to Banks Lake. When I got there I felt kind of odd, given that there were no other people out ther...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 3/20/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went over east of the mts. sunday night and came home today 3/20 for some hiking and trout fishing at banks lake like I do every time this year. March and april are pretty hot for trout fishing on ban...
By: Running L
Posted: 4/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the 3 species tournament both Saturday and Sunday. We had fished the previous weekend as well. All 4 days were very tough fishing. We would chart lots of fish but could not come up with any o...
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: 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: guyara
Posted: 9/30/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a beautiful fall day to be out on Banks Lake. We were fearful as we arrived around 8 am and drove past the end by coulee city. The wind was a howlin!!! But, by the time we reached Steamboat Roc...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/6/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wondeful scenic views, good ice!
Fished a couple areas of Banks, no luck. I couldn't locate any hungry fish on this lake. It's a large lake and I just don't know where to concentrate my efforts. T...
By: tricities-sean
Posted: 1/31/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks lake Friday, January 25th for some perch fishing through the ice. I was at the Coulee City boat basin/launch. I was on the ice at 6:45am to 12:30pm. The ice was 10+ inches thick. Bored 5...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/20/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Steamboat Rock, with the intention of fishing at Rufus. Never been to Banks before. Didn't know anything about it.
Decided to try it for a bit. Caught some nice bass. And walleye. G...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 3/11/2017
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/10/2017
Hot Spots: 1
This is going to be a long winded report. So please, bear with me. I fished from Friday night, March 10th till Saturday morning March 11th.
Arrived in electric city, Friday around 1400, had to ki...
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 11/23/2015
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/22/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I wanted to catch some of the Whitefish @ Banks as I've seen in some videos. No luck for me on those, I did pick up the one small mouth while trying. After no Whitefish action, I moved to some wee...
