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Banks
By: y2says
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Last Sunday and Monday my friend, his wife and 3 yr old son stayed at Steamboat and had a pretty decent days of fishing. Fishing was tough at times, but we still had a few quality fish. Water temp w...
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Banks
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 6/26/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for an afternoon, since I had to go to Ellensburg. Hey, that's most of the way from Yakima... Isn't it?? 41 smallmouth, 6 largemouth. Smallmouth were mostly on crawfish colored tubes...
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Banks
By: rhodes
Posted: 6/23/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I've been fishing crawler harness rigs and plugs. fishing has been real spotty, lots of no fish... surface temps right around 60, been a freaky year. a few nice ones far and few betwween. on...
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Banks
By: kjtemp
Posted: 6/20/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from the 11th to the 17th on the south end of banks lake. Stayed at the city park and had my dads boat at the dock. Unfortunetly It got broken into twice along with several other boats. The ...
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Banks
By: buzz bomb
Posted: 6/18/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/17/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks from 8am to noon. Wind was awful! But the fishing as always was great. Look shallow to 12 feet right now. The fish were full of crawdads! The big one was 3 lbs! Have fun and good luck... ...
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Banks
By: waiteman
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/9/2011
Hot Spots: 1
Fished the north end of Banks from Thursday thru Saturday. Weather was great and the fish were biting. We were tossing Green curly tail grubs on 1/8 oz jigs and caught all sizes from 8" on up to this ...
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Banks
By: Nick_Barr
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Banks Lake B.A.S.S Qualifier June 11th & 12th I fished this tournament as a non-boater as I didn't even know I was going to fish it till last week. We had 18 boats turn out as we launched Satur...
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Banks
By: lonnie197272
Posted: 6/13/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks Friday and Saturday, water temp was 61-63 weather was mostly sunny with light breeze from time to time. Fished midlake to south end trolling cranks in 15-20 fow. Lots of dinks and a few good...
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Banks
By: dreamer0131
Posted: 6/7/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2011
Hot Spots: 2
went camping all weekend. fished sunday night and monday morning. nailed them. all fish in 2-6 ft of water. fished the southend of lake. all fish were catch and release. caught alot of fish. here are ...
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Banks
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/29/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2011
Hot Spots: 0
What a fun catch. 5 lb small mouth
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Banks
By: Joey May
Posted: 5/24/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My uncle and I went over to banks lake and tried our luck with the smallmouth bass. We had an absolute ball. Caught a bunch of smallies and the old guy even got him a pretty good size trout.Their were...
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Banks
By: cast&blast
Posted: 5/23/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks Lake Sunday on way way home from a coulpe of days of Trout Fishing in the Sun Lakes area. We launched on the southwest end of the lake. Fished around rocky points and steep drops. Stayed clo...
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Banks
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/15/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2011
Hot Spots: 0
while fishing for bass at banks I caught a huge walleye with a brown grub in less than 15 feet of water. lots of small mouth being caught by good fisherman I have caught a few
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Banks
By: PBWADE89
Posted: 5/6/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well I finally made it out to Banks for the first time this year. I started off fishing smallies and was able to find a few of them in Old Devils lake area. I think we boated 7 bass in two hours. Not ...
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Banks
By: capnhook
Posted: 5/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Just spent 3 days in central and eastern Washington. Mainly fished Banks Lake but took a couple of side trips, one to Jameson and another to Blue Lake. Banks was full of all kinds of fish too bashf...
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Banks
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
A big thank you to Joe Scmidt a.k.a (fishin'_christian) for his generosity on this trip to my old stomping grounds up at Banks Lake. This years infernal cold weaher has wrought havoc on trying to patt...
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Banks
By: maxlilly
Posted: 5/2/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We hit Banks for a 3 days of fishing Fri., Sat. and Sunday hoping the water temp. was up and moving fish in but no such luck. Water was 45 to 47 depending on your location, Sunday it finally reached 4...
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Banks
By: Lundegard
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
We were hoping the walleye might be on the move. They aren't. We covered depths from 85 to 15, without a bite. Jigs of many colors, and spinners with crawler. We caught one rainbow in about 70 fee...
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Banks
By: Outjack
Posted: 5/1/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Son and I headed to Banks for the first time this year. Put in at Steamboat, and tried to stay out of the wind. We ended up with three walleye, three nice perch, and a nice lunch consisting of roast...
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Banks
By: bass2elk
Posted: 4/19/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks Lake this last Saturday and caught a few fish with my daughter. It was sunny but windy. Water temps were 43 to 46.8. Nice day overall.
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Banks
By: waiteman
Posted: 4/18/2011
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
First trip of the year to Banks Lake. Took the boys for 3 days of fishing and exploring the north end. We had to work for our 1/2 dozen Bass and a handfull of Trout but certainly had a good time doing...
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Banks
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
The weather looked tolerable today, although the pressure was dropping, the skies were clearing, and the winds were swinging 90 degrees. Fishable, but not conducive to a bite, since all indications w...
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Banks
By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our plan was to try Banks on Thursday 3/31, but weather warnings for high winds caused us to postpone for Saturday 4/2 which looked better. At 4 am Saturday I checked the forecast again, and although...
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Banks
By: RC
Posted: 2/10/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake at the North end at Coulee Playland off their dock. (Great People). Fished with slip weight to 6 feet of 6lbs test leader to a nite crawler and white mellow. In 5 hours caught 8 Rain...
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Banks
By: caroleshedd
Posted: 1/14/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had no luck on Banks Lake off the dock and out to the island. Ice was good but nothing biting.
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