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Banks Fishing Reports

Posted: 6/1/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This day was the first time out on Banks for us this season. The weather was very nice all week, warm, sunny and no wind...very condusive for getting the smallies to go on the bite. After leaving ou...
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Posted: 5/28/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Ok Here we go spent most of last week at banks. fishing was good I caught the biggest largemouth I have ever caught on the 25th A big fat 21" long by 15 dia" 5.25lb monster.Yes she went back in the la...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/16/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This report is for the entire weekend, and for numerous species of fish. LowVW and I left the Everett area on Thursday right after work. We arrived at Steamboat Rock state park around 7 and immedi...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks all day I know the lake well and have caught many walleye i found them but could not for the life of me get them to bite tried all colors did pick up a nice smallie throwing a jig spinner...
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Posted: 5/3/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks all day inthe wind. Fished from Steamboat to the north end. Marked a lot of fish but would not bite. Picked up 2 nice rainbow in Devils Puch Bowl on a white spinner. Whis I could figure ...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 4/3/2010
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
A friend and I had planned for a week to take our daughters to Banks, since it is spring break. We knew what the weather forecast was, but hoped for a little bit of a break. We got no break whatsoev...
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By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/21/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Hello: I am a local fisherman, they know me here at Coulee playland...... I had a good day today fishing here on Banks Lake...... I caught two nice Kokanee, they wern't as big as the one that I ...
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By: Lundegard
Posted: 2/18/2010
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went looking for kokanee (and rainbow). Graphed several huge concentrations of fish in very deep water, but they wouldn't take any offerings. The fish could have been whitefish, or carp, or suspende...
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By: jfevold
Posted: 8/31/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished a couple days last week, most recent being Saturday. Fished the south lake by coulee city on Saturday the 21st: 1 5# small mouth, 1 16" walleye, 1 12" Perch. All caught on bottom bouncers ...
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Posted: 8/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Sparky and I headed to Banks lake on Friday. Tried to prefish a little before our tournament the next morning. Major winds were on the water. Sparky helped keep the boat on spots with the big motor ...
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Posted: 8/20/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to banks for 9 day instead of 10! caught tons of bows bass wallies, some carp, sculpins, crayfish, perch! I had too much fun with the fam! i Love THIS PLACE! !!~TIGHT-LINES~!!
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By: shock_me
Posted: 8/10/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
went to banks from friday -sunday (from oak harbor wa) boated 6 walleye and 35 smallise 1 trout and 1 carp (lost two lures to carp this trip) went with a buddy of mine and he caught his first walleye....
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By: bassguy
Posted: 8/5/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks Lake for 4 days. Got into some great fish prefishing and a few nice ones during the tournament. It took 24lbs for 2 days to win. Fish came on spinnerbaits, grubs, buzzbaits and a few othe...
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By: Jordan
Posted: 7/31/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
caught a few smaller smallies around steamboat. also got a few dink perch. could not find any crappie or walleye
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By: RJD
Posted: 7/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Between the wind and the rain fishing on Banks was HOT! My daughter and I were into smallies and walleyes Friday evening and Sunday morning. Nothing real big but plenty of rod bending action. Best ba...
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By: danyole
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
No pictures but me and the family were camping at Sun lakes Resort on Park Lake. Went boating and drank lots of alcohol lol. Catching no fish at all except for my little cousins who were fishing off t...
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By: medic1
Posted: 7/15/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2009
Hot Spots: 3
We stayed at the state park at Steamboat Rock Sunday night through Wednesday morning. Spent Monday and Tuesday on Banks lake fishing. I would have to say that overall it was a 3. It was the first t...
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By: jsb7273
Posted: 7/6/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
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 ca...
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By: rhodes
Posted: 7/1/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing was tough, the fish are in post spawn. I believe there just moving to deeper water. There are many in the 12 to 15.5 inch range, 20 to 30 feet. The larger ones i got at 32 feet...
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Posted: 6/30/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I haven't posted for awhile, so here's a late one. Major and I got out on Banks Saturday and found some walleye in the south end of the lake. It was tough fishing, took most of the day to catch 6 and ...
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Posted: 6/26/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I headed up to Banks with my Crop adjuster boss man-Clark Sandoz.The day was a beauty too. Fluffy clouds, a cool breeze and just plain pleasant weather. We portaged my John Boat on the eastern side of...
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Posted: 6/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This is my first report on WL.com. My brother and his son came to visit from Las Vegas and wanted to go fishing. I had wanted to make the trip over to Banks so we set out Sunday afternoon to fish Mond...
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Posted: 6/15/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks Lake for 4 days. Two boats and 6 people fishing on and off all weekend. The fishing was fair. We could catch dinks all day every day but the bigger fish were a little tougher to find. ...
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By: PAYohann
Posted: 6/15/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Banks Lake, fishing with 2 friends, started around 10 AM. After snooping around the sand dunes we went trolling but the wind came up so we just let the wind blow us across the lake in front of the sta...
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By: y2says
Posted: 6/9/2009
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Sunday and Monday and fish didn't react to any fast moving baits. Water and air temp dropped with a cold front that came through. Still we were able to catch fish, but had to work hard at it....
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