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By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/26/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/23/2005
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Hit Banks lake for 2 days last week. Stayed at Steamboat State Park beautiful facility with a great launch. Planned on fishing for anything that was biting. We caught walleye, bass, and perch almos...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/23/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2005
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Wonderful day fishing for smallmouth bass on Banks Lake. Calm winds.
19 fish on one and one-half hours using plugs. The fish are bigger than last year.
The water is very clear, and it was easy to s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/20/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake around 0700 on sat the 18th of jun went straight to Barkers canyon area and dropped 3 poles with double whammies and night crawlers and trolled. had a little succcess early with a couple ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/12/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2005
Hot Spots: 0
My fishing buddy and I fished Banks lake the week of May 31st to June 4th. Fishing was great. We picked up a few nice Walleyes and I caught three 2lb Rainbow Trout. Small mouth were abundant and we...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/28/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon. Went with my wife, and 10 yr old nephew. We hit fished devils punchbowl, causeway, million dollar mile, and a few secret spots as well. We caught around 50 small and l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I took the family over to Banks for the holiday weekend. The fishing was hot! The weather even hotter! It didn't seem to matter where we fished, because the smallmouth were all over. I caught most...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/30/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/29/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks lake during later morning. Saw huge fish jumping to bugs and insects constantly. No luck. Used eggs, spinners, spoons, and worms. All the fish turned up their noses yet the fish gave ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/27/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/23/2005
Hot Spots: 0
great day of fishing at Banks, lots of bass in the slot size but they are fun to fight. weather was perfect.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2005
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Banks Lake on May 10 & 11 north of Steamboat Rock. It rained the first day, and was sunny and calm the second day. The water temperature was 55 degrees. The water had a greenish color but ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/13/2005
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/13/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake for bass on 4/13 thru 4/16. Got to the lake Thursday morning and caught 4 or 5 bass Thursday afternoon on Yo Zuri cranks before the cold front moved in. Got only 1 other strike in 3 ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/25/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 3/25/2005
Hot Spots: 0
For some time, I've found reports of incidental catches of largish rainbows in Banks lake by early spring spiney-ray fisherman more than a little intriguing. After doing enough research to be persuasi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 12/2/2004
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Rating: 2
Fished: 12/2/2004
Hot Spots: 0
some thin ice was in one end of the coulee city marina this morning, and the lake appears to be at least 6 feet lower than normal. a few rock piles that are usually never seen are protruding from the...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/11/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 11/11/2004
Hot Spots: 0
After a chilly night at Steamboat Rock state park I and a fellow Vietnam Vet decided we'd try Banks for a few hours. We figured; no matter what the outcome this would be a most fitting Veteran's Day f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/5/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/5/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Banks Lake labor day with my dad. My dad and I fished the mornings and one evening. The first day we fished from 8-12:30 am and started out trolling for walleyes with a bottom bouncing rig an...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/3/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/3/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks Saturday morning for about an hour in the morning and another hour right before lunch. This was a trip to try and hook my 5 year old grandson on walleye fishing. Weather was perfect, wa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/19/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Banks Friday afternoon to start pre fishin. Decided to wait until Saturday morning to fish. Within about 20 mins I had 3 smallies all over 2 lbs. I went out and start looking for new spo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/19/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Before I get into my fishing trip in June on Banks I need to tell you about a trip I did on the end of March. I went out and cranked for bass in the usual places I catch them this time of year and man...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/8/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks with Mike Carney and my parents. Weather was poor. Cool and windy, with the wind changing directions every so often. Caught a couple of nice bass and a walleye (we were trolling for wa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/13/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2004
Hot Spots: 0
fished banks lake last Thursday Friday and Saturday Alex my son and I caught between 70 and 75 Small mouth mostly in the devils lake area of
the lake found a bait that they just slammed caught mo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/23/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/23/2004
Hot Spots: 0
With the Spiny ray show off to a slow start in many of the large waters I fish. I decided to do a little trolling for 'bows or koks, on Banks lake. I have always found Banks to be a clean and scenic l...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/19/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 4/19/2004
Hot Spots: 0
I fished banks lake from Monday 04/19 thru Friday 4/23 in five days of fishing I caught 13 Small mouth and 3 rainbows. The smallmouth were all
small the largest was about a pound most of them I ca...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/27/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks lake this last weekend with bass fishing wiz Mike Carney it was cold dudes, We worked hard for bass but the bass just were not up yet like last year at this time, we not only could n...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/5/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 10/5/2003
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Banks Lake on a beautiful October day, no wind or clouds and a sunny 75 degrees! The four of us rented a party barge from Coulee Playland Resort and headed out left from the marina towards St...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/1/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 10/1/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake with friend and Bassin expert Mike Carney 10/01. What a blast we caught lots and lots of Smallmouth mostly using Senko worms
and drop shooting, I learned a lot from this guy can...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/10/2003
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2003
Hot Spots: 0
The following morning (Saturday) saw us get up to a bacon and egg breakfast complete with a cup of coffee. We then set out to see “Cooter” to get the The weather was perfect this weekend as a nice bre...
