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By: CoyoteCrazy
Posted: 9/10/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Made our first trip to Banks. I have wanted it for years. Took the wife's pontoon boat, and 6 of us headed over. Launched around 8, wind was horrendous. Tried to hide from it in a couple small coves w...
By: Don Wittenberger
Posted: 9/7/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2017
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Tom and I fished Banks Lake from Sep. 4-6. Dense fog-like smoke from wildfires shrouded the lake. We could not see the opposite shore. We fished for smallmouth on the west side of Steamboat ...
By: wallmama
Posted: 8/23/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
launched boat and headed middle of lake, pulled flicker shad #7 at 1.7 mph, north wind 8mph, depth 15-24 FOW, water temp 67-71, caught bunch of SM, only kept one 16", fished only 3 hrs, caught 3 eyes,...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 8/22/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/21/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing was great, the eclipse not so much. We put in at Coulee City park about 7:00 am and headed north to mid lake. We fish this area about 3 or 4 times a week and have been doing fair but n...
By: boyscoutman
Posted: 8/16/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/11/2017
Hot Spots: 0
caught a bunch of smallies and one small walleye my first one was using small single hook crank bait switched to a black rooster tail, and caught a 2 pounder.
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 8/13/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Late report....sorry,
Hit banks at first light, started on west side of steamboat, no good moved down to mid lake launch area and found success. Started shallow and had to move out to deeper water to...
By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 8/10/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report.
I fished Banks Lake with the Packernut on Saturday the 5th. We tried jigs for about an hour to no avail, then switched to bottom walkers and Mack's smile blades, slow de...
By: aortbahn
Posted: 8/7/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got out on Banks this Saturday, and was able to get myself a limit of some nice eater walleyes down on the south end of the lake by Coulee city in between some humps in about 20-30ft. Crawler harnesse...
By: mschulman
Posted: 8/3/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Left Northrup docks at Banks Lake around 7:00 am and hits the flats. Fished in water from 13 ft thru 31 ft using slow death rigs in a few different colors, but none seemed to get the bite going. Caug...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 7/26/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks to a area I was told Kokanee could be found and sure enough, we found them. The bite was a little slow, then somebody turned on the lights and the bite was on for about 30 minutes, then ...
By: wallmama
Posted: 7/25/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Had not seen any reports on this lake for a while. I guess I would like to chime in. Got on water at 8 am.... started 5mph mild wind in the morning. Use spinner as well as smiley with worm. One on to...
By: Fisheries24
Posted: 7/1/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/28/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Tough fishing for me at Banks. Fished Barker Flats, Punchbowl and the outside face of steamboat rock. Heading to the south end next time.
Posted: 6/21/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hello,
so I have been meaning to get to Banks Lake and Sunday the 18th I took the camper and boat and went to Barker Canyon. It is off Highway 174 before Grand Coulee. The road going to the Lake is...
By: Lee Howe
Posted: 6/19/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Patty and I fished Banks Saturday and Sunday, camping at Coolee Playland. Flat water surprised us since Friday the wind was fierce. Water temp still cold at north end 58 and around 64 in the main la...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 6/19/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/19/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Persistence sometimes pays off. CF, Al and I headed to Banks for the first time this year. We launched at Coulee City and started on the East side flats pulling crank baits but only found weeds. He...
By: Markin' Fish
Posted: 6/17/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Bass and Bows at Banks
Fished Banks from Wednesday to Friday for bass and did some bow fishing for carp. The weather was sporadic with rain and wind mixed in the three days. Biggest bass of the t...
By: NWDRIFTER
Posted: 6/11/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks for a few days with my son and his other fishing buddy for Walleye and Bass. Walleye fishing was decent on Barker flat. Averaged about 2 fish an hour. Slow Death with a green Smile Blade...
By: sprecman
Posted: 6/9/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Started fishing at 0530 on Barker Flats trolling worm rigs, changing colors often. Caught a nice 19 inch walleye on a chartreuse spinner and the a 18 inch walleye on a chartreuse smile blade. All in a...
By: headhunter2
Posted: 6/7/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit banks for a family camping fishing trip from friday the 2nd through monday morning. It was tough fishing at first..went around to barker flats and ran everything from planers and flicker shads to...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 5/30/2017
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This report is from 5/21/17 through 5/23/17 on Banks Lake in Grant County.
Arrived Sunday 5/21 at around 0830 and was launched out of the park at Banks Lake South by 0930. I motored out to a littl...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 5/27/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye seem to have finally started biting. I had an idea for a lure set up I have been wanting to try out, I took a Perch pattern Oldgoat lure and rigged it with a Slow Death hook. It worked GREAT. ...
By: craighix0708
Posted: 5/27/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report after being a devout reader over a number of years. We left Wenatchee at 7am , and launched at Northrup around 9:30. Ran across to Barker and fished for a couple hours with jus...
Posted: 5/7/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks all week, Sunday 4/30-Friday 5/5. Water temp started at 47deg and Friday was 51-52. Clarity was very good. Walleye
spawn was/is still on - thru back the girls, kept some/few boys. Pesky ...
By: DAR
Posted: 5/6/2017
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/6/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Good day on Banks except for the wind. 20 smallies and a 3lb trout. Very few boats at the south end and they were all after Walleyes.
By: motley
Posted: 4/23/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/22/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Took the kids to Barker flats on Banks and the fish were hanging in 50 ft. Water temp was still chilly. Used Slow death roll rigs pink worked the best. Caught four biggest was caught by my youngest da...