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By: esew
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend on Banks Lake looking for the famed walleye bite and we were not disappointed. We trolled the area around Steamboat Rock State Park using bottom walkers and night crawlers. I had rea...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing on Banks Lake has been hot and cold. One day its limits of 17-24 inch fish, then the next day its a couple of keepers and a bunch of undersized fish. The bigger walleye have really be...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/25/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing at the south end of Banks Lake produced limits of walleyes to 26 inches today. The key today was pulling crankbaits in the morning in low light conditions and some wind in 14-18 feet ...
By: clawman
Posted: 8/8/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Early morning bite. By 10:00 am it was pretty much over but until then WOW great day. Trolling jointed Rapala with orange belly near weeds. Caught 3 eyes 26-28" 3 eyes 20-22" and several 3 lb smallmou...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 8/11/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing at Banks has simply been awesome this summer!! Today the walleye were flat out smashing crankbaits at the south end of Banks near Coulee City. The walleye were in water depths of 14-18...
By: wallmama
Posted: 9/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry no photo. Had a great time on south end of Banks lake. Pretty new to me, always fished north end of the lake!!!just followed shoreline on east side . trolled 2 mph, flicker #7, 9, perch, caught ...
By: Red beard
Posted: 9/11/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Alright. First report in a while. Just returned from 5 months working in alaska, so straight to steamboat rock for the annual 10 day vacation with family and friends. Weather was great. Fishing was ev...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/27/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Smallmouth fishing at Banks Lake continues to be red hot! The south end of Banks at Coulee City is the place to be. Today we had wind so it was all about casting crankbaits along shallow rocky flats. ...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 5/22/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, first time fishing Banks today, and it took me to school! My adult son and I drove over to Banks from Lake Chelan, rented a boat from Coulee Playland, bought a fishing map of the lake, got some ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/22/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Smallmouth fishing has been off the charts on Banks Lake! Today we had ideal conditions for a top water bite. Clouds, a little rain, calm water, and the smallmouth did not disappoint. We caught fish o...
By: davesturkey
Posted: 7/5/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The small mouth bite was on EARLY. Crank-baiting over rocky bottom in the 3-15 foot depths. Caught about 15 small-mouth and one nice 5 lb walleye.
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/18/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The smallmouth bass fishing on Banks Lake continues to be outstanding. The smallmouth continue to located in shallow rocky flats and can be found from Steamboat Rock all the way down south to Coulee ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Smallmouth bass fishing on Banks Lake is now red hot. Took 3 clients for smallmouth on Banks on Sunday, June 8th. The smallmouth are now on shallow gravel flats with some on their beds. It was ...
By: BigPat
Posted: 5/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2014
Hot Spots: 3
The smallmouth bite was hit and miss. We used a combination of jigs, crank baits and spinner baits. Jigs were dark in color, crank baits were a perch imitation. and white spinner baits. Fishing was sl...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Dave Graybill and I hit the Banks Lake yesterday in an attempt to catch walleye, smallmouth, and rainbow trout. Coulee Playland Resort is holding the Triple Fish Challenge on April 26-27 where angler...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the water before 7am, steady wind on a cool Easter/Birthday morning, but clear skies and promise in the air.
1st of all I fished till about noon, mostly mid lake. I saw only 2 other boats al...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks again today with high hopes.
2nd cast I landed a nice 17' SM, off to a good start..
Then the wind chimed in....
Tried to fish a few areas out of the wind, but came up zero.
Sw...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks 5/10 and 5/11
Sat we started fishing about 7am.
Lake nearly dead calm, and though out the day very light, great day wind wise on banks.
We started hooking up with small mouth right away c...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
