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By: Fish On!
Posted: 6/7/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the past 4 days camping at Banks Lake enjoying the hot sunny weather. I'm not a big bass/walleye fisherman, so wasn't really expecting to do so well. Temps were in the 80's-90's, with lit...
By: bassguy
Posted: 6/2/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks lake last week and had a blast. Sorry not alot of pics just some fun ones but the fishing was great. Lots of nice 2-3 lbers as you can see from my pics some real "monsters" too, LOL. Fish...
By: stmanipulous23
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to banks hit the lake about 5:30 in the morning. Tried a few different spots but, ended up having a little luck off of Steamboat rock. Caught a few dinks including one that was a hair bigger ...
By: f1sh1nf00l
Posted: 5/31/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
This was my first time fishing Banks, and it definitely wont be my last. My buddy D was kind enough to let me back seat his boat. Fished Saturday 11 am - dark, and Sunday from 5:30 am- noon. Used plas...
By: 1cast
Posted: 5/31/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the lake a little after noon and got to fish for a few hours until the wind got out of control. Ended up in punch bowl until the wind died down enough to get back out to the main lake. Only fou...
By: bassguy
Posted: 5/27/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 4 days at Banks lake and what a great time. Largemouth and Smallmouth were abundant. On Friday most fish were off in a little bit deeper water and not on beds. Did see a few that looked like the...
By: poleadra
Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Several different spots. Actually got 1 bite. Apparently it was just too hot that day. Saw a whole bunch of fish swimming underwater... but they just were not interested in eating.
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing trip was from May 13th through May 17th. Made the 4 hour drive over to Steamboat Rock State park on Wednesday. The introductory weather was not great. Powerful winds made it tough the first...
By: lowvw
Posted: 5/18/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/13/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Spent 5 days over at banks w/ Snohobassguy and all the little rug rats 5-13 to 5-17. Spent the early mornings on Roosevelt by the dam trout fishing, only landed 4 in 3 mornings but the fish were all b...
By: bassguy
Posted: 5/11/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I spent a week at Banks and the fishing was tough but good. Fish (largemouth) were really spooky but if you could make a very accurate cast and a quiet one you could get them. They were positioned up ...
By: Keith
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to Banks from 5/7/09 to 5/10/09 with a group of people. We got there about 10am on the 7th and after getting checked into the hotel we got on the lake about noon. We ran to Steamboat first a...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 5/4/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I wanted to extend my hand in friendship to site member Bluefin Loui for taking the time to meet me for an awesome day of fishing. We met up at Coulee City park and hit one of my favorite Bass ponds f...
By: lowvw
Posted: 5/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Snohobassguy and myself did a quick weekend trip in the tubes to prefish for our 5 day vacation back to banks here in 8 days and counting. Got in late friday night and fished for about an hour and pic...
By: SnohoBassGuy
Posted: 5/4/2009
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
LowVW and I took our float tubes across the pass and got to Banks Lake around 5 pm on Friday. We stayed at Steamboat Rock. That first night we each landed one each. The fish have not moved to shall...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Here's my follow up report for Bank's Lake crappie. Adam Barnes and I made it up there to Steamboat Rock State park to fish the inlet bay known as the "Poplars" because the area is surrounded by all p...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 4/24/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I finally got my chance to make the 3 hour drive up to Steamboat Rock State Park on Banks Lake to fish for Crappie...I am so glad that I made the trip! I put in at the Park around 8:30 a.m. and immedi...
By: crappiekiller101
Posted: 4/19/2009
Species: Walleye
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/19/2009
Hot Spots: 0
well fished from thursday until today, sunday. the water temperature was only 46.8 most of the time. i fished on the backside of steamboat rock in about 50 feet of water on satureday we caught 1 nice ...
By: crappiekiller101
Posted: 4/4/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
NOTHING. tried fishing in about 30 feet to 10 feet of water. the water temp. was only 40 degrees. saw carp jumping of course. Marked no fish. Snow and then sun. It was horrible. The water needs to war...
By: Fishin Musician
Posted: 3/31/2009
Species:
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Banks Lake from shore in several locations Saturday morning. Worm and marshmallow was the bait of the day. Sometimes my brother would switch things up and suspend a worm under a bobber. We start...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 2/6/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/31/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Wondeful scenic views, good ice!
Fished a couple areas of Banks, no luck. I couldn't locate any hungry fish on this lake. It's a large lake and I just don't know where to concentrate my efforts. T...
By: guyara
Posted: 9/30/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a beautiful fall day to be out on Banks Lake. We were fearful as we arrived around 8 am and drove past the end by coulee city. The wind was a howlin!!! But, by the time we reached Steamboat Roc...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/20/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took some much needed time away from work and took my grandson out of school(some thing my dad never did for me).
We spent 3 days at the "Bank" for some non stop action.We caught smallmouth all da...
By: Fishin Musician
Posted: 9/15/2008
Species: Walleye
Rating: 1
Fished: 9/13/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Banks with my brother 9/13-14. The fishing was awful! I don't know what's happened to this lake, but we only caught 2 walleye all weekend, with one of them being a 16 1/2 inch keeper. We fished...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/31/2008
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Kind of a late report, but it's been a busy week. Went camping last weekend (22-26 Aug) with the family out at Banks Lake. Stayed at Sunbanks Resort in one of the waterfront cabins so I could pull m...
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...