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By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/25/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing at the south end of Banks Lake produced limits of walleyes to 26 inches today. The key today was pulling crankbaits in the morning in low light conditions and some wind in 14-18 feet ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 7/22/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Smallmouth fishing has been off the charts on Banks Lake! Today we had ideal conditions for a top water bite. Clouds, a little rain, calm water, and the smallmouth did not disappoint. We caught fish o...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 7/12/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks all week long. Got up at 3:30am each morning and fished before the coulee heat wave hit during mid morning. Air temps where in the mid to late 90s all week. Got lots of fish on top water ...
By: davesturkey
Posted: 7/5/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/4/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The small mouth bite was on EARLY. Crank-baiting over rocky bottom in the 3-15 foot depths. Caught about 15 small-mouth and one nice 5 lb walleye.
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 6/26/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the punch bowl at banks yesterday. Fishing was good. The largemouth are really spooked so good thing i was fishing from my raft so I didn't make a lot of noise running up on them. Fish are way ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/22/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing on Banks Lake has been hot and cold. One day its limits of 17-24 inch fish, then the next day its a couple of keepers and a bunch of undersized fish. The bigger walleye have really be...
By: esew
Posted: 6/24/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Spent the weekend on Banks Lake looking for the famed walleye bite and we were not disappointed. We trolled the area around Steamboat Rock State Park using bottom walkers and night crawlers. I had rea...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/18/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/18/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The smallmouth bass fishing on Banks Lake continues to be outstanding. The smallmouth continue to located in shallow rocky flats and can be found from Steamboat Rock all the way down south to Coulee ...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/18/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Walleye fishing on Banks Lake has been very consistent over the past week for walleye in the 17-23 inch range. Technique is all dependent on the weather conditions. If it is windy, we have been smas...
By: KMC
Posted: 6/17/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 1
We fished Banks for walleye the 13th-15th and landed six keepers, four of which were over 20" with the biggest being 27". Saturday was the best day getting the 27, a 25, and an 18 and losing four mor...
By: wmaxwell48
Posted: 6/16/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Banks Lake was as advertised by all we had talked to and gathered our intel. We got 5 boats on the water and all managed to bring home at least 1 keeper. One young fellow, Jerimiah by name, brought ...
By: ilv2fish
Posted: 6/14/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Haven't done a post in awhile due to computer issues and watching our grandson's play ball! Me and the Mrs. thought we'd pick some lakes this year that we haven't fished yet, hit curlew a couple of w...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/12/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/11/2014
Hot Spots: 0
The walleye bite on Banks Lake is beginning to pick up steam again. Had an afternoon guide trip on Wednesday, June 11th. We were able to land 12 keeper walleye in 3 hours. The fish ranged in size f...
Posted: 6/9/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/8/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Barker flats is producing lots of fish, many under the 16" min size but there are enough 16-19" fish to stay interested. Slow death and smile blades in 25-35 feet. Oh and this 31" 11 pounder too.
R...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 2
Smallmouth bass fishing on Banks Lake is now red hot. Took 3 clients for smallmouth on Banks on Sunday, June 8th. The smallmouth are now on shallow gravel flats with some on their beds. It was ...
By: Larry3215
Posted: 6/7/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2014
Hot Spots: 3
We fished Banks for the first time from 6/2 through 6/6. We had a great time but fishing was slower than we were hoping for. I gave it a 3 because we did catch some nice walleye our first time targeti...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 6/6/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/5/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished osborne bay area at banks lake last night for largemouth. Fishing was pretty slow and windy but saw lots of largemouth in the shallows. Caught 2 on top water frogs and 1 on a 6in senko. Also c...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/1/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Day ½(late) through Day 3:
After fishing Cle Elum with Mark we drove to our next destination, Banks Lake. Target Species: Walleye. We met up with Aaron and fished Saturday evening in the Punchbowl....
By: allanwalker
Posted: 6/2/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Lake or River Fished: Banks Lake
Target Species: Walleye
Date(s) Fished: Saturday May 31, 2014
Weather Conditions: Sunny and Clear
Wind: ...
By: dutchman2858
Posted: 5/22/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/21/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Well, first time fishing Banks today, and it took me to school! My adult son and I drove over to Banks from Lake Chelan, rented a boat from Coulee Playland, bought a fishing map of the lake, got some ...
By: BassSlayer1981
Posted: 5/21/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/19/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fished banks for only 2 1/2 hours for largemouth in the punch bowl. Tried lots of lures and no takers. Didn't even see a largemouth. Only carp. Only thing I caught was a perch on a square bill crank. ...
By: BigPat
Posted: 5/20/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/15/2014
Hot Spots: 3
The smallmouth bite was hit and miss. We used a combination of jigs, crank baits and spinner baits. Jigs were dark in color, crank baits were a perch imitation. and white spinner baits. Fishing was sl...
By: BigWallysGS
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2014
Hot Spots: 3
Walleye fishing on Banks Lake is picking up steam. My clients and I boated 9 walleye over 20 inches this weekend on Banks with others in the 16-18 inch range. Banks also has an unbelievable amount u...
By: callplatinum
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Smallmouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Banks 5/10 and 5/11
Sat we started fishing about 7am.
Lake nearly dead calm, and though out the day very light, great day wind wise on banks.
We started hooking up with small mouth right away c...
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...