Banks lake Walleye????

[finnman]

Has anyone been doing any good the past few years on Banks for Walleye? We use to fish it every April-May and do real good from the shore at dusk. The past few years we have seen a drop in the numbers and size of fish. We regularly would catch fish in the 6-8 lb. range and ever now and again would get a 10-12 lber! The largest was caught by my brother-in-law on a real cold blustery night and it was over 14lbs.!
I will get some picture up soon for verification! They are all from 35mm film.....

[DuckRanger]

Oh there lurking.  Just a matter of timing.

[Skyvalhunter]

Was you fishing with a night crawler or wedding ring setup?

[turkey slayer]

We do pretty good still. I fish it every other week in the summer. The walleye that we catch are 3 to 4 pounds a few around 6.

[finnman]

Was you fishing with a night crawler or wedding ring setup?


No, we use mostly rattling plugs of various shapes and colors, I mostly use a perch color or firetiger, they sure like em!!

[BLKBEARKLR]

well I do not know if you do or if you don't but all those big ones you are catching are the females coming up to spawn, if you keep too many of them your fisherie rate goes way down.


Joe

[300UltraMagShooter]

my brother got a 14lb eye out of there several years ago

[finnman]

Thanks for the tip Joe! We only go over maybe once or twice a year and we could only keep one big fish a day, so we did not keep a lot of big fish regularly, just have been doing this for a number of years. One of the last years we did well we got camp set up and drove to our spot only to find about 20 walleye carcasses laying in the water!!!
We later after talking to some folks and Gordon S. at Big Wallys, found out the Russians or Ukrainians had been caught netting fish on Banks!!! I don't think with the size of the Reservoir we had put much of a dent in the population, but netting them might!
I also remember hearing just a year or two ago about some fisherman finding a gillnet out in the middle of the lake somewhere that had a bunch of dead Whitefish in it!
If it is not the rivers then they net the lakes too! This stuff stinks!

[BLKBEARKLR]

Yes it was the russians, I do a lot of Bass tournies over there and we were told what to look for and call it in if we seen anything like it, it really sucks that they do that.

Joe

[Big10gauge]

There's a bass tourney at Bank's starting tomorrrow. I must have saw 70 bass boats between Coulee Playland and Coulee City today. More on the highway heading for Banks Lake

[BLKBEARKLR]

Yea that should be a Northwesst bass tournie, they will have another one in moses May2-3rd, that one I will fish

[JDNehl]

wondering what the report is for eye's? I'm thinking of making a trip over the last week of april.