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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/9/2024
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/3/2024
Hot Spots: 0
Over 3 days of pounding the shore of punch bowl with frogs, worms and crank bait caught 4 medium bass on crank baits. Not quite warm enough - fish are still sleeping.
By: igotfishon
Posted: 12/15/2023
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/10/2023
Hot Spots: 0
So I heard white fish when smoked, they are delicious. Lake white fish at Banks Lake are one of the biggest in Washington State and hard to catch from shore. This sounds like a good challenge so grab ...
Posted: 9/12/2022
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/9/2022
Hot Spots: 0
My family and I went out for 3 days for Labor Day Weekend. 2 at Lake Roosevelt and 1 at Banks lake. We easily caught 250 smallmouth. Lots of dinks and clones. Average fish were 1-2 1/2 pounds. We cou...
By: walleygator88
Posted: 6/17/2022
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2022
Hot Spots: 0
Hey its the "Gator", had a chance to get away for the day on Friday the 17th and do some walleye fishing on one of my most favorite Lakes to walleye fish, Banks Lake, this is the Lake that I learned h...
By: morrow50
Posted: 5/25/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/25/2021
Hot Spots: 1
This is from Tuesday till Thursday . Launched at steamboat rock state park . Fished three days . Some days were excellent weather the others were very windy .On Tuesday there was an armada of boats so...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 4/16/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/9/2021
Hot Spots: 0
I was really excited to head to Eastern Washington and fish Banks lake for some walleye. We arrived just after sunrise to a perfectly calm lake. I decided to head off toward the westside of steamboat...
By: Noskills72
Posted: 4/10/2021
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for the first time, this weekend, out of all weekends. Friday was windy, but got b.o.w for a few hours. No luck. Saturday was nuts! 30+ gusts, so searched up and down, for shore fishing...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 11/29/2020
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/19/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Day 2 of our whitefish adventure started out rough! We woke up to a ton of smoke from the fires. Thankfully we had some respirators packed just in case. We hit the water in the morning and decided to ...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 11/20/2020
Species: Whitefish
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2020
Hot Spots: 0
We planned a trip to Banks lake and found the Walleye bite to be tough. We decided to try fishing a new species to us, whitefish! We ended up anchoring in 120ft of water. We found that fish were stack...
By: nerka nailer
Posted: 10/20/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 10/11/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks lake in search of some Walleye. The air was smokey from the fires but we didnt let that keep us off the water. We stopped in at coulee playland resort for some worms before hitting the ...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/12/2020
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Banks from Monday-Thursday.
Taking the puppers on her first camping trip. She did very well on the 4 hour ride.
Arrived late at about 4:30PM. Got everything setup and made dinner. Phi...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 6/5/2020
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2020
Hot Spots: 0
With water temps climbing into the 60's it was time to start hitting the post-spawn Walleye bite at Banks Lake. The lake was very busy with 20+ boat fishing around Steamboat. I started off trolling in...
By: davedavey
Posted: 2/4/2020
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/1/2020
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing at banks lake. Fishing from the shore. Got my limit in 1.5 hours. the strike was on as soon as i got bait in the water. I posted a video under the video section and lake section. Just l...
By: walleyemark
Posted: 8/7/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2019
Hot Spots: 0
3 Aug 19 at Banks lake
Took my buddy Jay out to Banks to try and find some summertime walleyes. We launched out of Osborne Bay and headed out to the main lake where we encountered a bit more wind t...
By: stevertd2010
Posted: 7/17/2019
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I had pretty much the same experience as Fishindoc. Although we fished from Monday to Friday. Mostly just in the morning for a few hours each day, but sometimes went out later in the day. Our main ...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/9/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
It was good to get out on the water with my usual buddies as CF has been a no show for a while, being a bit under the weather. Launched at Northrop Canyon and had lines in the water by 6:45. We fish...
By: WaterSwatter
Posted: 6/16/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Banks lake heating up for some good walleye fishing.. report a little late but better late than never..
Saturday fished the lower end of banks outside of coulee city.. weather was overcast threaten...
By: Waderjs
Posted: 6/5/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/3/2019
Hot Spots: 1
This report is for a 4-day trip to Banks Lake with my Brother. The first 2 days we had a hard time finding many fish. Caught several perch, a couple bass and a few walleye each day. Our usual spots ar...
By: afk
Posted: 4/8/2019
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2019
Hot Spots: 0
I participated in the TFO event on Banks this weekend. I had the honor of taking a Veteran out to catch his first Walleye! Fishing was tough. If not for my buddy Mark along to help, I would have blan...
By: FishinNut
Posted: 1/26/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/26/2019
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks Lake today and the fishing was great. Got there late. Launched at the Coulee City launch and started fishing about a half mile out at around 10AM. 10 minutes after I got my line out I...
By: atroutfisherman
Posted: 1/19/2019
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/19/2019
Hot Spots: 0
First fish of the New Year! I have made 7 trips to fish this year and I finally got this nice 16" rainbow! It was still and foggy this morning so I made the trip to the Coulee City marina. Fished ...
Posted: 10/15/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I have been wanting to get to Banks for a while finally got it done. Got to Northrup about 10:30, after a stop at Coulee Playland for worms and snacks.
There were about a dozen trailers at the launch...
By: uplandsandpiper
Posted: 10/13/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/12/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to try fishing the "humps" on the south end of the lake on Friday. I've never fished the area before but had heard it can hold walleye. Long story short 4 hours of trolling produced zero fis...
Posted: 9/16/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/9/2018
Hot Spots: 0
Real ratings by topic: weather -5, walleye 1, trout 3, perch 5. Appears we'll be eating fish tacos all winter instead of walleye filets. Fish and Game counter is pleading to keep all perch because of ...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 9/4/2018
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/2/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I had another great day on banks lake targeting walleyes. This will probably be my last trip after walleyes. I'll likely be on the shelf this weekend with family in town, then it will be time to fish ...
