Lake Roosevelt Charters - Lake Roosevelt and Banks lake guided fishing for kokanee, trout, walleye, and sturgeon. We also provide Curlew lake Ice fishing depending on ice conditions. Lake Roosevelt Charters also provides scenic tours covering all of lake Roosevelt year round! Customize your scenic tour to your groups or family's preference.
So we spent 4 days camping at Sunbanks on Banks Lake. There's a reason why this is my favorite fishery. In 3.5 days of fishing, typically about 4 hours in the early morning and 4 hours at night, we caught 150-200 bass (all C&R), my boy and I. We caught mostly smallies, but about 2 dozen or so largemouth. We didn't find the schools of real big ones, but we boated a ton of 1-2 pounders (both sm and lm). We boated almost all of them by the rocks and on the points of weedlines. I typically get plenty of largemouth in the weedy coves between devils punch bowl and osborn bay, but not this time (we only got a couple in those areas this time). The baits we were using were crankbaits and poprs, natural and light colors. We caught a few on senkos and curly tails (natural colors as well), but not that many. I am not complaing about catching tons of 1-2 pounders, but because we didn't get any bigger than this, the highlight of the trip had to have been the 1 pound crappie. The picture doesn't do it justice, it was huge, by far the biggest crappie I have ever boated; and of course it was by accident, caught on a crankbait.
ChrisB, It was an awesome couple of days fishing. Probably my best weekend ever. They were incredibly aggressive, bass of all sizes, except for the big big ones. I didn't fish enough offshore structure, that's probably why I didn't get 3+ pounders.
juscallmetoad, I have fished Banks quite a bit the past 5 years and this is the first crappie I have caught there; I don't normally target Crappie though.
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Lake Roosevelt Charters - Lake Roosevelt and Banks lake guided fishing for kokanee, trout, walleye, and sturgeon. We also provide Curlew lake Ice fishing depending on ice conditions. Lake Roosevelt Charters also provides scenic tours covering all of lake Roosevelt year round! Customize your scenic tour to your groups or family's preference.