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We decided to hit banks lake on Saturday. Boy was it a hot day and I was very thankful that my friend had just purchased a Bimini top cuz it was about 15 degrees cooler under the top.

We arrived from Yakima to banks lake around 9:30am and lines in the water around 10am. We went straight to barker flats since that's where everyone was fishing. We started fishing in 20-30 feet of water with no luck. After about an hour, we started trolling in 10-15 fow and that was when we started getting into fish. Gold spinner blades with chartreuse beads seemed to be the ticket for us. Tried using gold smiley blades but the walleye didn't want to have anything to do with it. Also noticed quite a bit of walleye on the surface about 3 feet below the surface just cruising. Decided to throw a double jointed crayfish pattern rapala with no luck.

Anybody know why these walleye were on the surface?

zen leecher aka Bill W

6/7/2016 8:46:00 AM

you sure the "cruisers" weren't carp?

walleyes

6/7/2016 9:05:00 AM

Nope! I saw the exact same thing last Tuesday. tons of cruisers just below the surface. For sure walleye but could not get them to bite. We thought of carp but we had multiple good looks at them and they were walleye.

zen leecher aka Bill W

6/7/2016 11:59:00 AM

I'll keep an eye out for them when I make a trip to Banks.

buc

6/7/2016 12:21:00 PM

swimbaits in your colors should work well with a slow retrieve....

Asianju

6/7/2016 1:49:00 PM

For sure they were not carp. Definitely walleye and some of those were pigs. If I go again soon, i will take a few swimbaits and jigs and see if i can't get them to take a swipe at them.

clawman

6/8/2016 4:43:00 PM

I fished a tournament on Winnebago in Wisconsin 2 weeks ago and some guys figured out walleye were near the surface eating bugs. They started using 1/2 oz weight only 5' behind a board, so their worm burner spoons were about 2' below the surface.

Why2Fish

6/9/2016 10:36:00 PM

Some of the best fishing there has been in 8-10 ft of water

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