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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: 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: 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 ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/19/2005
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/17/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Didn't set the lake on fire this trip. The weather brought a front thru the night before, so the Walleye were not biting much and we had a hard time finding the bass, large or smallmouth. The son did ...
By: tcb
Posted: 5/30/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for Memorial Day Weekend. The action was good, lots of smallies and a few perch just like the earlier report. Got one 28" Wally. Windy, Windy, WINDY!! We couldn't get the boat off th...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 8/27/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Outstanding trip to Banks Lake. Arrived late Friday night so didn't fish until Saturday morning. Well worth the wait. On the water around 8:45am and limited by 10:45am. I would have to rate that morni...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 9/30/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/30/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Spent Sat and Sun on Banks Lake. Walleye Fishing is still good there. It was 44 degrees and windy on Saturday, Sunday was about 50 and raining. We were bottom bouncing with crawlers. We caught 1 18 in...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 10/20/2007
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/19/2007
Hot Spots: 0
2 day trip to Banks.
Thursday it was drizzling rain, 40's, windy, and fishing was as bad as I have seen it all year. It has been dynamite here for last few months but it was not so today. Used bott...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 3/30/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
First time this year out on Banks. All the ice is gone and it felt great to be pulling bottom bouncers again. Didn't get on the water until 130pm today and when we finally found the fish we fished for...
By: ripper
Posted: 4/8/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to Banks lake on Sat. and Sun., what a great place, this was my first trip over here. Sat. morning dawned clear and cold, about 36 deg., but it warmed quickly. Started out on Barker flats...
By: troutheart
Posted: 5/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a long day on the lake and not much luck. There were also probably 50 bass boats flying around the lake for the tournament. Walleye fishing was tough but we managed to hook this 19 incher righ...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks lake this past weekend.
Friday night I tried for Crappies for an hour, not happening.
Gave Walleyes a shot for 2 1/2 hours and caught 2 keepers, 1 dink and lost one other.
Saturd...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I spent 3 1/2 days fishing on Banks Lake from 5/28 through 6/1. This is only my third time on Banks, so I am still learning where to find the walleyes. For us, the fishing was hit and miss...
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
3 pretty good days of walleye fishing on Banks this weekend. A lot of boats struggled and a few caught limits. It was completely hit or miss, but if you found them you were on them. Friday night in 3 ...
By: Fishin Musician
Posted: 9/15/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks with my brother 9/13-14. The fishing was awful! I don't know what's happened to this lake, but we only caught 2 walleye all weekend, with one of them being a 16 1/2 inch keeper. We fished...
By: crappiekiller101
Posted: 4/19/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
well fished from thursday until today, sunday. the water temperature was only 46.8 most of the time. i fished on the backside of steamboat rock in about 50 feet of water on satureday we caught 1 nice ...
By: 1cast
Posted: 5/31/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake a little after noon and got to fish for a few hours until the wind got out of control. Ended up in punch bowl until the wind died down enough to get back out to the main lake. Only fou...
By: Fishin Musician
Posted: 6/30/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't posted for awhile, so here's a late one. Major and I got out on Banks Saturday and found some walleye in the south end of the lake. It was tough fishing, took most of the day to catch 6 and ...
By: rhodes
Posted: 7/1/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was tough, the fish are in post spawn. I believe there just moving to deeper water.
There are many in the 12 to 15.5 inch range, 20 to 30 feet. The larger ones i got at 32 feet...
By: medic1
Posted: 7/15/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2009
Hot Spots: 3
We stayed at the state park at Steamboat Rock Sunday night through Wednesday morning. Spent Monday and Tuesday on Banks lake fishing. I would have to say that overall it was a 3. It was the first t...
By: shock_me
Posted: 8/10/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
went to banks from friday -sunday (from oak harbor wa) boated 6 walleye and 35 smallise 1 trout and 1 carp (lost two lures to carp this trip) went with a buddy of mine and he caught his first walleye....
By: fishingboy
Posted: 8/20/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to banks for 9 day instead of 10! caught tons of bows bass wallies, some carp, sculpins, crayfish, perch! I had too much fun with the fam! i Love THIS PLACE!
!!~TIGHT-LINES~!!
By: jfevold
Posted: 8/31/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished a couple days last week, most recent being Saturday.
Fished the south lake by coulee city on Saturday the 21st: 1 5# small mouth, 1 16" walleye, 1 12" Perch. All caught on bottom bouncers ...
By: allanwalker
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks all day inthe wind. Fished from Steamboat to the north end. Marked a lot of fish but would not bite. Picked up 2 nice rainbow in Devils Puch Bowl on a white spinner. Whis I could figure ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks all day I know the lake well and have caught many walleye i found them but could not for the life of me get them to bite tried all colors did pick up a nice smallie throwing a jig spinner...
