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Banks
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 8/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Banks trip from 8/22 to 8/24. Stayed at Steamboat. First morning we had trouble with the motor, so just used the trolling motor. I hooked into 2.5 LMB first cast with a senko. Friend caught a 3+ S...
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Banks
By: lowvw
Posted: 8/26/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks for a three day weekend-8/21-8/24 with Snohobassguy. Fished all day. Caught a lot of small fish. For every fish over a pound landed 5 or 6 under 12". Fished plastics from 10'-40' dependi...
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Banks
By: fishingboy
Posted: 8/25/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/19/2008
Hot Spots: 3
When to banks for 9 days from coulee playland resort. Been there for 6 years. fun place to be. Caught some walleye, trout, perch, smallmouth bass, crayfish, bullheads, and huge 18 inch largemouth bass...
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Banks
By: Keith
Posted: 8/24/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Well waited all year to go to Banks with my buddy and my kid. Got over there on Thursday morning and launched and got blasted by 6 foot waves all morning. The bilge pump broke and had to head in to ge...
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Banks
By: anakpinoy4
Posted: 7/28/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/27/2008
Hot Spots: 2
Stayed at Steamboat Rock State Park from July 25th - 27th. Fished all 3 days during the afternoon for about 2 or 3 hours mostly on our boat. Carp were like rats in the water here and all over the l...
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Banks
By: fishnislife
Posted: 7/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks this weekend for vacation with some friends and took along some gear. Got out on the water Sat. morning at 5:30am and fished until 8:30am. Hit up a couple of points along the rocky banks...
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Banks
By: CK14
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2008
Hot Spots: 0
had a club tournament on the weekend on banks lake. fishing was pretty slow with mostly small fishing being caught. i got a limit each day pretty easily but most fish were 13"-15". caught most of my f...
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Banks
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/20/2008
Species: Other
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Steamboat Rock, with the intention of fishing at Rufus. Never been to Banks before. Didn't know anything about it. Decided to try it for a bit. Caught some nice bass. And walleye. G...
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Banks
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 6/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Slow fishing. Weather was great until we were blown off at 1:30 PM. Six people fishing for 5 hours and not a single bite. Tried many different spots with no fish. Worst I've ever seen Banks lake. At t...
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Banks
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/9/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Good trip to Banks lake over the weekend. Weather was a factor, due to much colder than average temperatures, both for the air and water. Smallmouth bite was pretty good, until temps dropped almost ...
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Banks
By: outdoor chris
Posted: 6/3/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
set up camp Thursday night, caught a few bass off of the boat launch while waiting for friend to park the truck after putting the boat into the water. Water temp. was a bit cold, 56, cooled down from...
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Banks
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
3 pretty good days of walleye fishing on Banks this weekend. A lot of boats struggled and a few caught limits. It was completely hit or miss, but if you found them you were on them. Friday night in 3 ...
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Banks
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
A buddy and I spent 3 1/2 days fishing on Banks Lake from 5/28 through 6/1. This is only my third time on Banks, so I am still learning where to find the walleyes. For us, the fishing was hit and miss...
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Banks
By: bassendave
Posted: 5/29/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/24/2008
Hot Spots: 2
banks lake jamboree update hi i just got home from the 37 annual banks lake jamboree i caught a lot of under size smallmouth and a my first ever walleye on day 1 on day 2 i caught 2 keepers that w...
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Banks
By: gangan_2000
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Headed out for Memorial day weekend to Grand Coulee area with family. First tried at Steamboat Rock park (near the boat launch) around 4PM-6PM, no luck. Then tried from the shoreline of HWY155, 7PM-8P...
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Banks
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/23/2008
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/23/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks last week before the tournament. Caught 4 little guys in 4 hours on Thursday evening anywhere from 14 to 41 feet of water. Not exactly what you want to see but oh well. Friday I took a f...
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Banks
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/23/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Started to fish for walleye, but after two that were 23" and four smaller ones, the bite slowed by 9 AM. We tried for bass around Steamboat rock and took some dinks, mostly on power grubs and 1/8 oz....
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Banks
By: outdoor chris
Posted: 5/21/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
pulled up to the boat launch about 7 AM, beautiful day! First order of the day was to turn on the depth finder to see what the water temp. was as this is very important to bass fishing this time of y...
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Banks
By: Jordan
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My dad, my buddy, and I caught 64 bass. about 55 of them were between 1.5 lbs to 3.5 lbs. the others were pretty small. of those I think 5 or 6 of them were Largemouth and those were all 1.5 to 2 lbs...
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Banks
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/12/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I fished the steemboat area from 10:30 am untill 5:00 pm. We caught smallmouth ranging in size from 8" to 3 lbs. Probably caught 20+ fish. Weather was overcast and cool with light boat ...
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Banks
By: glenn
Posted: 5/11/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks with my wife and 2 children(5&6). Temp was in the low 70's, Partly cloudy and the water temp was approximately 55 wind was light. I was using a craw fish jointed rapala, my son a brigh...
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Banks
By: Joe Heater
Posted: 5/6/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks lake this past weekend. Friday night I tried for Crappies for an hour, not happening. Gave Walleyes a shot for 2 1/2 hours and caught 2 keepers, 1 dink and lost one other. Saturd...
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Banks
By: Kfedka
Posted: 5/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Pulled out 6 rainbow trout averaging 18". Used worms and white marshmallows, Fished from 6 till dark. Reeled in a 16" smallmouth on a dark purple cury tail, as well as a 22" walleye on a black curly t...
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Banks
By: troutheart
Posted: 5/2/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Spent a long day on the lake and not much luck. There were also probably 50 bass boats flying around the lake for the tournament. Walleye fishing was tough but we managed to hook this 19 incher righ...
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Banks
By: riprap101
Posted: 4/22/2008
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Banks lake on Sat. First time on this body of water. Pops and I launched on the South end. Water temp. 44, and warming the further North we traveled. Started trolling on top for bows along S.W...
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