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By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/29/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Hot, hot, hot. The walleye bite is simply on fire on Banks Lake! Even better, the fish are getting bigger by the day.
We got well over 50 fish today and kept only walleye that were at least 16 inc...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/24/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
It is actually pretty amazing at the number of walleye that are in Banks Lake this year. Limits have been the norm on all of my trips.
The crankbait bite has been fast and furious for the first co...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/12/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2015
Hot Spots: 0
If you have kids and want to get them on fish, Banks Lake is the spot to hit. The walleye action is basically not stop for fish running 15-17 inches with walleye up to 22-24 inches being taken as well...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/6/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/6/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee fishing at Lake Roosevelt continues to be very good. I did have to give it a 4 due to the fact that all the fish are wild kokanee and you can keep just 2 wild kokanee on Lake Roosevelt.
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By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/4/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 0
As of July 1st the slot limit on Banks Lake has permanently moved to the 12"-22" and 8 fish per day limit. Limits are now the norm, not the exception.
The size of the walleye have been from the ta...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/2/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/1/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The kokanee bite on Lake Roosevelt is on. Targeted areas around Spring Canyon and Swawilla Basin on July 1st and was not disappointed. The kokanee are running at 35-40 feet down in water depths of 200...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/27/2015
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/23/2015
Hot Spots: 0
In between my walleye trips to Moses Lake, Potholes, and Banks Lake, I have had a few trips on Rufus Woods. The fishing has simply been outstanding at Rufus. Most of the rainbows have been running 2-3...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/2/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/31/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye fishing on Moses Lake has simply been off the charts. I have spent the past 3 weeks guiding on Moses with limits of 17-22 inch fish being the norm. Been getting walleye on crankbaits such ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Not only are the walleye cooking on Banks but so are the smallmouth bass. The smallmouth are currently relating to water depths of 3-10 feet and are clobbering crankbaits. Today we hit numerous smalli...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2015
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for Thursday, April 9th. The walleye bite is strong right now on Banks Lake. But wow the fish are spread out and are in various depths. Yesterday we caught walleye in depths as deep as ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 2/22/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye bite remains very strong at Banks Lake. Fish are holding in 35-50 feet and are munching down on the Mack's Lure Spindrift Walleye Rig tipped with a whole crawler. Slow trolling with 2 ounc...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 2/15/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/15/2015
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye bite was on today at Banks Lake. Caught numerous fish today ranging in size from 16-27 inches. Everything came on the new Mack's Lure SpinDrift Rig. This bait is far and away out fishing a...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 2/8/2015
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First of all, its hard to believe I'm sending a report for Banks Lake on February 8th for walleye. The entire lake is ice free as of this weekend. The water temperatures are 38-39 degrees in the main ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 12/13/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/13/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the day on the water with Bob Schmidt of Macks Lure and Justin Wolff of Angler West TV catching Lake Roosevelt rainbow. We fished strictly Macks Lure baits and attractors today and caught fish o...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 12/7/2014
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The cooler water temperatures have really turned the Rainbow fishing on at Rufus Woods. I have been focusing my fishing in the upper reaches of the reservoir fishing from the Seaton's Grove boat launc...
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: 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: 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: 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: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/5/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for Kokanee this morning around Swawilla Basin. The fishing was not red hot but the fish we got were all high quality.
Our fish came on a Macks Lure Kokanee Squidder in pink with a pink Smi...
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: 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: 6/18/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing on Banks Lake has been very consistent over the past week for walleye in the 17-23 inch range. Technique is all dependent on the weather conditions. If it is windy, we have been smas...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/12/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye bite on Banks Lake is beginning to pick up steam again. Had an afternoon guide trip on Wednesday, June 11th. We were able to land 12 keeper walleye in 3 hours. The fish ranged in size f...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Fished Potholes Reservoir on Saturday, June 7th, with 2 clients. We found a great concentration of walleye in Crab Creek. They ended up getting 16 walleye to fill out their limit. The biggest walle...