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Banks
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/26/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/26/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks again today with high hopes. 2nd cast I landed a nice 17' SM, off to a good start.. Then the wind chimed in.... Tried to fish a few areas out of the wind, but came up zero. Sw...
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Banks
By: callplatinum
Posted: 4/21/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/20/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Was on the water before 7am, steady wind on a cool Easter/Birthday morning, but clear skies and promise in the air. 1st of all I fished till about noon, mostly mid lake. I saw only 2 other boats al...
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Banks
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 4/10/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/9/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Dave Graybill and I hit the Banks Lake yesterday in an attempt to catch walleye, smallmouth, and rainbow trout. Coulee Playland Resort is holding the Triple Fish Challenge on April 26-27 where angler...
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Banks
By: Mcfisherson13
Posted: 4/9/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/6/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Made it up to Banks twice this last weekend. -Friday was a rough trip, turned out good, but was a little touch and go. Got to Northerup launch at daylight and was getting boat ready to launch and no...
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Banks
By: afk
Posted: 3/31/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2014
Hot Spots: 0
We launched at Northrup at 08:00 & came off a little before 17:00. Beautiful spring day. We caught fish from 55-28 Ft. out in the desert. We tossed back a dozen or so eyes that needed to grow. Variety...
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Banks
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 3/29/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/29/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Walleye fishing on Banks Lake is very, very good right now! Most keeper size walleye are running from 18-22 inches with some larger females thrown into the mix that we have been releasing. The walle...
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Banks
By: basspro
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Banks Lake is on for fall smallmouth bass fishing. Just finished 2nd at the TBF Open this past weekend. Reaction baits in the morning were working best. Jerk Baits,Crank Baits, and Spinner Baits. Afte...
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Banks
By: Whyaskus
Posted: 9/3/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/2/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Great fishing! We got out on the lake around 1pm and fished till 7pm. Caught a ton of small, small mouth bass but we also hooked a few 5-7 lbs. We used surface poppers and worked the banks near steamb...
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Banks
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 8/17/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Took a week off and brought my boy over to Banks for some bass fishing. Hit a couple of my honey holes and eventually ran into some PIG smallmouth some of which were over 5lbs. Went over to my walle...
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Banks
By: Stywe Lyn
Posted: 8/12/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/10/2013
Hot Spots: 1
First time on Banks Lake. Started in Devils Punchbowl, fishing the weedlines, nothing. Then got a couple of smallish SMB on the rip rap close to the bridge under highway 155. Went to the big submer...
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Banks
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 8/7/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks 8/5 and 8/6. Woke up at 4am each morning while it was still pitch black out to beat the coulee heat wave during the day. Fished till about 1:30 till 2 in the afternoon each day. Bass fish...
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Banks
By: Bmastro777
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2013
Hot Spots: 0
So the trip was awesome guys, thanks for all the pre fishing info! Started out last weekend fishing Friday morning on Banks Lake, started at Barker Flatts fishing 5-7ft of water. My son got one righ...
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Banks
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 6/25/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Hit up banks yesterday since the weather was some what nice. It rained and was cloudy. No big deal for me as long as I was hookin' bass. Fished the punch bowl the whole day caught several largemouth b...
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Banks
By: FishingFool
Posted: 6/7/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Camped at Steamboat Rock State Park from Mon-Fri. On Monday, setup camp and had a late lunch. We hit the water and it is windy. Couldn't fish properly at all. No whitecaps but was getting blown ...
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Banks
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 5/29/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Well the weather sure has changed in the coulee area. Not like a couple weeks ago when it was in the high 80s lower 90s for about a week. Not that many bass on there beds like there use to be since th...
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Banks
By: bassplayer17
Posted: 5/13/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/11/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chelan in the morning for koks. At 930am loaded up the boat heading to banks for some smallies. 1230 in the afternoon pulled in to barker canyon boat launch. Boat in the water headed to the fla...
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Banks
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/4/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Nice weekend at Banks lake for Smallies. Most Fish came on tubes, however we managed to get fish on just about everything that Smallmouth like. Stopped in at Blue Lake for some Trout on Sunday and did...
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Banks
By: Running L
Posted: 4/9/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I fished the 3 species tournament both Saturday and Sunday. We had fished the previous weekend as well. All 4 days were very tough fishing. We would chart lots of fish but could not come up with any o...
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Banks
By: dgsmith
Posted: 4/4/2013
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/6/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I caught this 11 lb. 32" walleye in the punch bowl area of Banks Lake. What has happened to fish like this in Banks Lake? I fished Banks Lake multiple times last year with no walleye or bass caught. ...
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Banks
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 3/20/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/19/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Went over east of the mts. sunday night and came home today 3/20 for some hiking and trout fishing at banks lake like I do every time this year. March and april are pretty hot for trout fishing on ban...
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Banks
By: fishinChristian
Posted: 1/28/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/27/2013
Hot Spots: 1
After a drive through the Yakima River Canyon, which had many deer, eagles, and wild sheep, I headed to Banks Lake. When I got there I felt kind of odd, given that there were no other people out ther...
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Banks
By: bottom feeder
Posted: 12/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 12/8/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My lady friend and I tried to connect with fish Friday at Rufus Woods at Chief Joe but nothing shakin there, but a different drive for both of us at Grand Coulee. A enjoyable day sight-seeing and fis...
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Banks
By: bottom feeder
Posted: 11/26/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 11/18/2012
Hot Spots: 0
My friend and fishing buddy, Connie, fished off the boat launch at Banks Lake for two days and caught 7 nice pigs about 5 to 6 lbs. These boys were fat, and really tested our 8 lb. test. Put about th...
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Banks
By: Red beard
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Every year my extended family go fishing and jetboating at Steamboat Rock state park on Banks lake for 10 days so this is a report from 9/3 til 9/13. After last years slug fest from the lake being...
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Banks
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 9/13/2012
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/12/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Went to banks lake again and fished for bass for about 2 days only with 1 largemouth bass C&R. Used topwater frogs/mice and senkos in lots of colors. Also used a buzz bait through the reeds and grass....
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