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Offline Russ McDonald

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Re: Fun at Banks Lake
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2015, 02:09:42 PM »
I've talked to skillet a lot, cool dude, full of good info.
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Re: Fun at Banks Lake
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2015, 07:58:52 PM »
Great fishing at Banks lake, in 3 days we caught 165 walleyes and a few were keepers.  Five to be exact and the biggest was 16 1/2. The mosquitoes were biting good too. We then went to Roosevelt and the fishing was not so good. The water temp was 83 degrees on Sunday.

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Re: Fun at Banks Lake
« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2015, 05:48:18 AM »
Oh man, the skeeters were relentless. I only fished one evening, the rest of the time was mornings and days only.
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Re: Fun at Banks Lake
« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2015, 06:48:37 AM »
Good looking fish!
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Re: Fun at Banks Lake
« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2015, 02:52:10 PM »
Great fishing at Banks lake, in 3 days we caught 165 walleyes and a few were keepers.  Five to be exact and the biggest was 16 1/2. The mosquitoes were biting good too. We then went to Roosevelt and the fishing was not so good. The water temp was 83 degrees on Sunday.

Wow!  That's a lot of fish but the percentage of keepers seems very dismal. 

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Re: Fun at Banks Lake
« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2015, 03:05:03 PM »
 
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Wow!  That's a lot of fish but the percentage of keepers seems very dismal. 
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Re: Fun at Banks Lake
« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2015, 06:40:13 PM »
Its sad, I had reservations for another 3 days but I decided to bag it. We fished a number of different spots and different depths. We started with smile blades and went to hard blades. I even tried plugs with no luck. We fished all around Steamboat rock and Barker Canyon. Maybe it was better at the south end of the lake.
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Re: Fun at Banks Lake
« Reply #22 on: July 01, 2015, 09:11:48 AM »
The average weight of the fish entered in the May walleye derby was 2.5 lbs.  Mind you that these fish were culled for the heaviest bag weight.   I think they didn't fish in the small fish areas but skipped around until they found bigger fish.

 


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