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By: anakpinoy4
Posted: 7/28/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Stayed at Steamboat Rock State Park from July 25th - 27th. Fished all 3 days during the afternoon for about 2 or 3 hours mostly on our boat. Carp were like rats in the water here and all over the l...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Joe Heater
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
3 pretty good days of walleye fishing on Banks this weekend. A lot of boats struggled and a few caught limits. It was completely hit or miss, but if you found them you were on them. Friday night in 3 ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I spent 3 1/2 days fishing on Banks Lake from 5/28 through 6/1. This is only my third time on Banks, so I am still learning where to find the walleyes. For us, the fishing was hit and miss...
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: 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: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/23/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks last week before the tournament. Caught 4 little guys in 4 hours on Thursday evening anywhere from 14 to 41 feet of water. Not exactly what you want to see but oh well.
Friday I took a f...
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: 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: 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: 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: glenn
Posted: 5/11/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks with my wife and 2 children(5&6). Temp was in the low 70's, Partly cloudy and the water temp was approximately 55 wind was light. I was using a craw fish jointed rapala, my son a brigh...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks lake this past weekend.
Friday night I tried for Crappies for an hour, not happening.
Gave Walleyes a shot for 2 1/2 hours and caught 2 keepers, 1 dink and lost one other.
Saturd...
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: troutheart
Posted: 5/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a long day on the lake and not much luck. There were also probably 50 bass boats flying around the lake for the tournament. Walleye fishing was tough but we managed to hook this 19 incher righ...
By: riprap101
Posted: 4/22/2008
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks lake on Sat. First time on this body of water. Pops and I launched on the South end. Water temp. 44, and warming the further North we traveled. Started trolling on top for bows along S.W...
By: ripper
Posted: 4/8/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to Banks lake on Sat. and Sun., what a great place, this was my first trip over here. Sat. morning dawned clear and cold, about 36 deg., but it warmed quickly. Started out on Barker flats...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time this year out on Banks. All the ice is gone and it felt great to be pulling bottom bouncers again. Didn't get on the water until 130pm today and when we finally found the fish we fished for...
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: 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...
