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By: Lee Howe
Posted: 4/1/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
First time out this year. Launched at Coolee Playland and stayed in that section of the lake. Patty and I fished the exact spots that were real good at this time in the last two years and did not get...
By: wallmama
Posted: 3/25/2017
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/25/2017
Hot Spots: 1
A lot of boats on the lake. Barker flats, Coulee play land, all over. A beautiful sunny day, a little windy, 8-12mph chop, fishing was slow,. I only managed boated a few egg filled perch. Talked to o...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 3/11/2017
Species: Other
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/10/2017
Hot Spots: 1
This is going to be a long winded report. So please, bear with me. I fished from Friday night, March 10th till Saturday morning March 11th.
Arrived in electric city, Friday around 1400, had to ki...
Posted: 9/15/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/14/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Banks was a bust !!! On the water b/4 7:00am and headed for old devil's lake area to try for a few whitefish - spent
almost two hours jigging and watching two other boats, nada for all of us, left a...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 8/30/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/28/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After a awesome morning of Kokanee fishing on Deep, we headed to Banks for walleye. We put in at Coulee City and tried north of Goose Island. Tried trolling bottom bouncers with worm harness's and sha...
By: 8theB8
Posted: 8/27/2016
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
This is a report for technically last Monday AND Tuesday even though Monday was mainly a sightseeing endeavor. First trip ever to Banks Lake for myself and my wife and unfortunately we were greeted by...
Posted: 8/24/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Northrup cyn before 7 - headed south to do the mile, but about half way there Aeolius the wind God
decided to let it all hang out - less than 5 minutes we were in white caps and rollers -...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 8/21/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I had to rate this a four instead of a five because of the drop in water level. The level has dropped about three to four feet in the past week. Before the water started dropping is was very common fo...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 8/12/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day on Banks Lake. Walleye fishing has been of the chart for us here for the past couple months and just seems to be getting better. We got on the water at 9:30 and had 16 walleye in the...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 8/11/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/11/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Al and I headed north this morning with our wives instead of CF, our usual fishing partner. There was much more chatter coming from the back seat instead of the normal snoring we were used to hearing...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 8/8/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/6/2016
Hot Spots: 0
After a successful morning of Kokanee fishing, we headed to Banks Lake in Coulee City since it was close to the Kokanee fishing lake. We trolled for about 3 hours and never got a single walleye but di...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 7/9/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I bribed my wife with breakfast if she would go walleye fishing yesterday. I think it was making sure we had enough fillets in the freezer that sealed the deal. We launched at Coulee City and were p...
By: Walleye Be Damn
Posted: 6/28/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/26/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Well we gave Banks a shot for the first time on the south end at Coulee City. We set out at about 07:30 and within 10 minutes we had the first 2 walleyes. I thought it was going to be a fast day with ...
By: fishindoc
Posted: 6/14/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2016
Hot Spots: 0
First trip to Banks this year. Launched at Coulee City with the usual suspects at 7:15. There were several boats working just outside the launch area but we headed further north and worked some hump...
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/9/2016
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Annual camping trip time. Heading to Banks and stayed from Monday-Thursday. Was scared of the forecast though. And for the most part, they were right.
On our drive there, we steadily saw the temp...
By: Asianju
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
We decided to hit banks lake on Saturday. Boy was it a hot day and I was very thankful that my friend had just purchased a Bimini top cuz it was about 15 degrees cooler under the top.
We arrived f...
By: rseas
Posted: 6/6/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
What started with a “Fishing this weekend?” text at 6:10 Thursday morning ended being one of the most incredible and productive fishing trips ever. The text string went something like this; “Fishing t...
By: hewesbob
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
We recently moved to Coulee City from Spokane so we could be closer to the Walleye fishing and I have to say its great to be within a short drive of so many great lakes. Yesterday we launched at Steam...
Posted: 5/26/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Launched at Northrup pt. and decided to try the flats first before moving elsewhere - long story short, stayed
at the north end of the flats the rest of the day, that is until about 1:15PM and the wi...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/20/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/19/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Wasn't sure where I was going to fish today but let the weather determine it as after Craig left yesterday at 2pm, I got back to Sun Lakes and tidied things up a bit. I had heard that a pretty signif...
By: salmonbarry
Posted: 5/19/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2016
Hot Spots: 0
So after a quick shower and some food we repacked the boat up and set out for Banks to try for some big eyes! Craig had never caught a walleye or tasted one so I was anxious for him to get a chance t...
By: walleyes
Posted: 5/2/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Slow day on Banks, landed a single spawned out 26 inch female on a copper spin harness. We started fishing around 6am and called it a day at 1PM. We thew every color of spin/harness, flicker shads and...
By: buc
Posted: 4/21/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2016
Hot Spots: 0
South end/only one trailer in parking lot at 7:30 drove down to big flat west side across from millon $ launch. Two limits in an hour, so me and the old man just drove the whole lake for fun. No other...
By: justforfun
Posted: 4/17/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/7/2016
Hot Spots: 0
On the water by 9 am, slow start but what a beautiful day. Slow death hooks on standard bottom bouncer set up. Keep three walleye 17 & 18 inchs, then to my surprise, 80 degree day and I pull up a 25''...
Posted: 4/15/2016
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/15/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks Lake on 4/14 and 4/15. Thursday's weather reminded me of running charter boats in Alaska. I'm glade we remember the raingear. It rained until we had our limits. The drive home was nice an...