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By: callplatinum
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/27/2015
Hot Spots: 1
I gave this trip a 5 because it was truly a blast.
Dumped the boat into bank at the mid lake launch, not an easy task, water is way down! But it's only a 17.5 boat so no problem.
Ran up the la...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 3/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Slept in and listen to the wind blow today. About 10am I figured I'd give it a try.
Launched at Steamboat, ran out to Barker Flats, way to windy. So I ducked back in behind Steamboat.
Picked up...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 3/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
I'd like to give it a higher rating. But part of me sez to give it a lower rating.
I fished from like 9:30am till nearly 4 pm.
I caught atleast 40 walleye. One I think I could have passed f...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/6/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got to rate it for what it is... I'm perfectly happy with my little trip.
No time this weekend to fish, had lots of chores. But managed a couple of hrs Sunday afternoon. Put in at Coulee City about...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Thursday, April 9th. The walleye bite is strong right now on Banks Lake. But wow the fish are spread out and are in various depths. Yesterday we caught walleye in depths as deep as ...
Posted: 3/19/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Good day of fishing at barker flats near steamboat rock . Awesome weather. Saw easily over 50 boats today fishing barker flats. Fish seemed to bite better when it was breezy in the morning. Most of m...
By: Fish'n Fever
Posted: 3/22/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/21/2016
Hot Spots: 0
With a forecast for clear skies, and light winds, I loaded my 14' boat into my 5th wheeler, and headed for Steamboat State Park at Banks Lake. While driving there, my son Shane called. Upon learning w...
By: asmith
Posted: 4/1/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Total of 10 walleye, 7 perch and 2 burbot between the two people. All caught using bottom walkers with various color slow death rigs. Biggest was 21.5", 2.5lbs, smallest 12.25". Beautiful day, with...
By: smathisen
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/1/2016
Hot Spots: 2
Got to Banks lake around 11:00. Started fishing just west of Coulee Playland Resort using Trolling poles, Leaded Line, Smile Blade Slow Death Hooks with Night Crawler. Down 55 ft, Trolling around 2 mp...
Posted: 4/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/1/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for got pictures on the first report.
Took the family out on Banks Lake today! What a amazing day. You couldn't ask for better weather. Kept a few for a fish fry! Released a ton of fish! I st...
By: motley
Posted: 4/3/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/3/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Took the kids over to Banks to get in on the walleye action at Barker flats. On the troll over there from Steam boat park my youngest daughter caught a 29 inch Burbot on a spinner off the bottom. The ...
Posted: 4/7/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
A beautiful day for fishing, no wind, just the occasional cats paw on the water - a few walleye and a few
perch - walleye in 35-50 and perch in 25-35. Bite went off between 10-10:30 - trollled around...
By: C-money
Posted: 4/14/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/9/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks last weekend. Had a great time. Fishing was ok, plenty of slow time, but there was a few doubles at times as well. We boated 14 walleye, 7 perch and 3 crappie. One 19" walleye still had e...
Posted: 4/15/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks Lake on 4/14 and 4/15. Thursday's weather reminded me of running charter boats in Alaska. I'm glade we remember the raingear. It rained until we had our limits. The drive home was nice an...
By: justforfun
Posted: 4/17/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
On the water by 9 am, slow start but what a beautiful day. Slow death hooks on standard bottom bouncer set up. Keep three walleye 17 & 18 inchs, then to my surprise, 80 degree day and I pull up a 25''...
By: buc
Posted: 4/21/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
South end/only one trailer in parking lot at 7:30 drove down to big flat west side across from millon $ launch. Two limits in an hour, so me and the old man just drove the whole lake for fun. No other...
By: walleyes
Posted: 5/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Slow day on Banks, landed a single spawned out 26 inch female on a copper spin harness. We started fishing around 6am and called it a day at 1PM. We thew every color of spin/harness, flicker shads and...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/19/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
So after a quick shower and some food we repacked the boat up and set out for Banks to try for some big eyes! Craig had never caught a walleye or tasted one so I was anxious for him to get a chance t...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/20/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wasn't sure where I was going to fish today but let the weather determine it as after Craig left yesterday at 2pm, I got back to Sun Lakes and tidied things up a bit. I had heard that a pretty signif...
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Northrup pt. and decided to try the flats first before moving elsewhere - long story short, stayed
at the north end of the flats the rest of the day, that is until about 1:15PM and the wi...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We recently moved to Coulee City from Spokane so we could be closer to the Walleye fishing and I have to say its great to be within a short drive of so many great lakes. Yesterday we launched at Steam...
By: rseas
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What started with a “Fishing this weekend?” text at 6:10 Thursday morning ended being one of the most incredible and productive fishing trips ever. The text string went something like this; “Fishing t...
By: Asianju
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to hit banks lake on Saturday. Boy was it a hot day and I was very thankful that my friend had just purchased a Bimini top cuz it was about 15 degrees cooler under the top.
We arrived f...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 6/14/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First trip to Banks this year. Launched at Coulee City with the usual suspects at 7:15. There were several boats working just outside the launch area but we headed further north and worked some hump...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 6/28/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well we gave Banks a shot for the first time on the south end at Coulee City. We set out at about 07:30 and within 10 minutes we had the first 2 walleyes. I thought it was going to be a fast day with ...
