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By: basspro
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake is on for fall smallmouth bass fishing. Just finished 2nd at the TBF Open this past weekend. Reaction baits in the morning were working best. Jerk Baits,Crank Baits, and Spinner Baits. Afte...
By: Whyaskus
Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Great fishing! We got out on the lake around 1pm and fished till 7pm. Caught a ton of small, small mouth bass but we also hooked a few 5-7 lbs. We used surface poppers and worked the banks near steamb...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 8/17/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took a week off and brought my boy over to Banks for some bass fishing. Hit a couple of my honey holes and eventually ran into some PIG smallmouth some of which were over 5lbs. Went over to my walle...
By: Stywe Lyn
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 1
First time on Banks Lake.
Started in Devils Punchbowl, fishing the weedlines, nothing.
Then got a couple of smallish SMB on the rip rap close to the bridge under highway 155.
Went to the big submer...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 8/7/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks 8/5 and 8/6. Woke up at 4am each morning while it was still pitch black out to beat the coulee heat wave during the day. Fished till about 1:30 till 2 in the afternoon each day. Bass fish...
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So the trip was awesome guys, thanks for all the pre fishing info! Started out last weekend fishing Friday morning on Banks Lake, started at Barker Flatts fishing 5-7ft of water. My son got one righ...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up banks yesterday since the weather was some what nice. It rained and was cloudy. No big deal for me as long as I was hookin' bass. Fished the punch bowl the whole day caught several largemouth b...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Steamboat Rock State Park from Mon-Fri.
On Monday, setup camp and had a late lunch. We hit the water and it is windy. Couldn't fish properly at all. No whitecaps but was getting blown ...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 5/29/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well the weather sure has changed in the coulee area. Not like a couple weeks ago when it was in the high 80s lower 90s for about a week. Not that many bass on there beds like there use to be since th...
By: bassplayer17
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chelan in the morning for koks. At 930am loaded up the boat heading to banks for some smallies. 1230 in the afternoon pulled in to barker canyon boat launch. Boat in the water headed to the fla...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Nice weekend at Banks lake for Smallies. Most Fish came on tubes, however we managed to get fish on just about everything that Smallmouth like. Stopped in at Blue Lake for some Trout on Sunday and did...
By: Running L
Posted: 4/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the 3 species tournament both Saturday and Sunday. We had fished the previous weekend as well. All 4 days were very tough fishing. We would chart lots of fish but could not come up with any o...
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: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 3/20/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went over east of the mts. sunday night and came home today 3/20 for some hiking and trout fishing at banks lake like I do every time this year. March and april are pretty hot for trout fishing on ban...
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 1/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
After a drive through the Yakima River Canyon, which had many deer, eagles, and wild sheep, I headed to Banks Lake. When I got there I felt kind of odd, given that there were no other people out ther...
By: bottom feeder
Posted: 12/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My lady friend and I tried to connect with fish Friday at Rufus Woods at Chief Joe but nothing shakin there, but a different drive for both of us at Grand Coulee. A enjoyable day sight-seeing and fis...
By: bottom feeder
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and fishing buddy, Connie, fished off the boat launch at Banks Lake for two days and caught 7 nice pigs about 5 to 6 lbs. These boys were fat, and really tested our 8 lb. test. Put about th...
By: Red beard
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Every year my extended family go fishing and jetboating at Steamboat Rock state park on Banks lake for 10 days so this is a report from 9/3 til 9/13.
After last years slug fest from the lake being...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to banks lake again and fished for bass for about 2 days only with 1 largemouth bass C&R. Used topwater frogs/mice and senkos in lots of colors. Also used a buzz bait through the reeds and grass....
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 8/22/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/20/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks the last 2 days. 8/20 and 8/21. Used top water frogs mostly through the slop and senkos, worms around the edges of the slop. Had only one big hit on top water frog right when it was almos...
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: TheKing83
Posted: 6/14/2012
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/14/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing around 5am starting Wednesday fishing for crappie and bass I've had some good luck last year over on south side of lake. but this year its been hit and missed. I fished cpl more days morn...
By: silverbaws
Posted: 6/13/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/10/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water at 4 am with plastics and ultralight bobber jig setups ready to fish all day. Landed a half dozen or so large mouth in the 15-17inch range with the largest being 17.5inches (the one in t...
By: davidwat1
Posted: 5/22/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Just returned from a 4 day trip to Banks Lake and the fishing was on fire! The weather patterns were completely stable, we never saw a drop of rain, or even much wind, it was absolutely beautiful and...
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...
