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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...
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: 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...
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: 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: 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...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 10/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/10/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Day 2= met up with my buddy and headed to the flats again. Filled with confidence from a pretty quick day before we hit it hard. Today we had to battle to get our fish, but by the end my buddy had his...
By: Big Smooth
Posted: 10/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Hit the water at 3 pm to fish this lake that I had never done before. Found my way to the flats and dropped the rods. Since I was solo I was a bit nervous, but I trusted my electronics. Wind was just ...
By: OldFishGuy
Posted: 10/9/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Off to Banks Lake with my Grandson to try for Walleye. Neither of us had ever fished for them before. We bought some of those leaded wire bottom bouncers, a couple colored spinners with double hooks...
By: fishin2
Posted: 10/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/8/2015
Hot Spots: 3
My partner and I fished Banks Lake in the Barker Canyon area. We caught twelve walleye 13" to 17" in length. It was a nice fishing.
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 9/27/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
trolled Banks lake again with Slow Death rig with silver smile blade on bottom bouncer (1 oz.) put in at Steamboat Rock and went South. Fished 15 - 25 ft at 1.2 mph once we found some fish we kept c...
By: Prazerm
Posted: 9/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/19/2015
Hot Spots: 3
First time fishing Walleye. Watched alot of videos and called some friends for tips. Got on water at Steamboat at 7:30. Headed out across lake from the back of Steamboat Rock. Bottom bouncers and ...
Posted: 9/15/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/12/2015
Hot Spots: 3
This report is for both weekends of September!
The Walleye fishing at Banks Lake continues to be absolutely amazing! It is going to continue to be red hot well into this fall. We have been catching...
By: nwbhoss
Posted: 9/2/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2009
Hot Spots: 2
I fished Walleye for the first time and Banks Lake for the first time last weekend. It took a couple days to figure things out and fighting the wind but we picked up some good info and ended up landin...
By: bluewater16
Posted: 8/31/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Banks this morning. I forgot how bad the wind out of the south can make that lake. Finally gave it up at 1:00 pm. Did manage two get to limits of 14 to18" walleye and c&r'd two nice smallies 2....
By: clawman
Posted: 8/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/28/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Amazing how quick you can catch a limit now. Either troll a #5 shad rap in purplesecent at 10'-12' of water or throw a 4" swim bait on 1/4 oz head. Look for weeds and fish on the outside edge.
You sh...
By: wafisherman20
Posted: 8/20/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2015
Hot Spots: 3
well, back from my european sports adventure for the summer, and naturally what do i want to do? GO FISHIN! so i head out with my dad on a two day adventure for salmon on wenatchee and walleye on bank...
By: bluewater16
Posted: 8/19/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/19/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Banks for first time in 25 years. Had To after reading all the reports. Not sure where we were just followed the boats
We were about 5 miles south of steamboat next to hyway where a spring come...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/16/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/15/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Fished Banks with the Packernut yesterday in the steamboat rock area. The fishing was again on fire with lots of action. We managed 57 walleyes between the two of us. We released a ton of small fish a...
By: LordoftheFlies
Posted: 8/14/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/13/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day chasing walleye with friend DT. Second time on Banks lake, started catching fish right after getting bottom bouncers with Walleye Delight lures, in green and orange colors + worms. fishe...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/11/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Warm water conditions on Cda Lake have had me on the sidelines as far as pike fishing goes lately. When the eater cools down they should pick up. That hasn't happened yet so I thought I would get in o...
Posted: 8/10/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake Walleye fishing continues to be nothing short of on fire!
We kept 2 limits of 15" to 16.5" Walleye with a 20" big one as well! We were using Mack's Lure Slowdeath Rigs in Gold, Purple, Cha...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/30/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/30/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Despite getting 25 fish days at Potholes the last 3 weeks the recent reports had us headed to Banks this AM. Winds were forecast to be 5 MPH but whitecaps greeted us. We launched at Coulee City and ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/29/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hot, hot, hot. The walleye bite is simply on fire on Banks Lake! Even better, the fish are getting bigger by the day.
We got well over 50 fish today and kept only walleye that were at least 16 inc...
Posted: 7/28/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/28/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake Walleye is absolutely on fire right now! We had a phenomenal day catching Walleye, and the bite is going to stay hot!
Trolling Mack's Lure Slowdeath Rigs from 1.0 to 1.2 mph in 20ft-35f...
