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By: PBWADE89
Posted: 5/6/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well I finally made it out to Banks for the first time this year. I started off fishing smallies and was able to find a few of them in Old Devils lake area. I think we boated 7 bass in two hours. Not ...
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks Friday and Saturday, water temp was 61-63 weather was mostly sunny with light breeze from time to time. Fished midlake to south end trolling cranks in 15-20 fow. Lots of dinks and a few good...
By: kjtemp
Posted: 6/20/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from the 11th to the 17th on the south end of banks lake. Stayed at the city park and had my dads boat at the dock. Unfortunetly It got broken into twice along with several other boats. The ...
By: rhodes
Posted: 6/23/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I've been fishing crawler harness rigs and plugs. fishing has been real spotty, lots of no fish...
surface temps right around 60, been a freaky year. a few nice ones far and few betwween.
on...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 6/28/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Steamboat 22nd through 26th. Pleasant weather but big winds, which prevented us from covering large portions of the lake. Fished Barker, Steamboat, clay banks, Punchbowl, and Jones. Jigs,...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 7/7/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished mostly the south end, that being from the Mile south. Caught 12 for the day, 7 keepers, for two of us. Two nice perch as well. Fished the mid lake area without a bite. No depth produced unt...
By: 4petie5
Posted: 8/9/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Sunset was epic and the lake was quiet. Started fishing around 5:00 am South of Steamboat. Fish started biting around 8:00. Slow troll with spinner about 12 inches off the bottom. Hit two walleye ...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 9/19/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We wanted to see if the fish were stacked up in the drawn-down lake. Normally this time of year the walleye bite is pretty good on Banks, so we thought that the skinnier water would increase our odds...
By: romanfishing
Posted: 10/28/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We came on Banks Lake about 11AM after fishing Evergreen Resevoir. All the boat launches were close except the one in Electric City. Only three boat trailers were parked at that boat launch. It alread...
By: sjrose24
Posted: 4/17/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/15/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Out Banks this sunday and fished Barker flats west of steamboat. trolled wally pops with a bottom bouncer between 20 and 30 ft with no luck. Seems like the fish were more concentrated in the dee...
By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/15/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Given the stable warm trend of May weather, and a recent trip of fair success, my usual walleye partner and I decided on a trip to Banks, since I had a work-schedule change and could therefore go duri...
By: magnum4469
Posted: 7/23/2012
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2012
Hot Spots: 3
Got on the water about 8 am fished till 2pm and had eight strikes and landed five walleye. Most were 16+ and one over 18, fairly productive morning. The fish hit several different rigs tipped with ni...
By: dgsmith
Posted: 4/4/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I caught this 11 lb. 32" walleye in the punch bowl area of Banks Lake. What has happened to fish like this in Banks Lake?
I fished Banks Lake multiple times last year with no walleye or bass caught. ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 3/29/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Walleye fishing on Banks Lake is very, very good right now! Most keeper size walleye are running from 18-22 inches with some larger females thrown into the mix that we have been releasing. The walle...
By: afk
Posted: 3/31/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at Northrup at 08:00 & came off a little before 17:00. Beautiful spring day. We caught fish from 55-28 Ft. out in the desert. We tossed back a dozen or so eyes that needed to grow. Variety...
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 4/9/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Made it up to Banks twice this last weekend.
-Friday was a rough trip, turned out good, but was a little touch and go. Got to Northerup launch at daylight and was getting boat ready to launch and no...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Walleye fishing on Banks Lake is picking up steam. My clients and I boated 9 walleye over 20 inches this weekend on Banks with others in the 16-18 inch range. Banks also has an unbelievable amount u...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Lake or River Fished: Banks Lake
Target Species: Walleye
Date(s) Fished: Saturday May 31, 2014
Weather Conditions: Sunny and Clear
Wind: ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Day ½(late) through Day 3:
After fishing Cle Elum with Mark we drove to our next destination, Banks Lake. Target Species: Walleye. We met up with Aaron and fished Saturday evening in the Punchbowl....
By: Larry3215
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2014
Hot Spots: 3
We fished Banks for the first time from 6/2 through 6/6. We had a great time but fishing was slower than we were hoping for. I gave it a 3 because we did catch some nice walleye our first time targeti...
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Barker flats is producing lots of fish, many under the 16" min size but there are enough 16-19" fish to stay interested. Slow death and smile blades in 25-35 feet. Oh and this 31" 11 pounder too.
R...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/12/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye bite on Banks Lake is beginning to pick up steam again. Had an afternoon guide trip on Wednesday, June 11th. We were able to land 12 keeper walleye in 3 hours. The fish ranged in size f...
By: wmaxwell48
Posted: 6/16/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Banks Lake was as advertised by all we had talked to and gathered our intel. We got 5 boats on the water and all managed to bring home at least 1 keeper. One young fellow, Jerimiah by name, brought ...
By: KMC
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 1
We fished Banks for walleye the 13th-15th and landed six keepers, four of which were over 20" with the biggest being 27". Saturday was the best day getting the 27, a 25, and an 18 and losing four mor...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/18/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing on Banks Lake has been very consistent over the past week for walleye in the 17-23 inch range. Technique is all dependent on the weather conditions. If it is windy, we have been smas...
