Banks Lake (8/14-8/17)

Anyone here have any experience yakfishing Banks Lake out in eastern WA?  I'll be heading out there camping with my wife and a bunch of her work friends.  If anyone else is going to be out there the same time or lives in the area I'm open for meeting up...

We managed to get two waterfront campsites at Sunbanks Resort just south of Electric City.  I'm looking forward to trying my hand at nighttime yakfishing since I will have direct access. 

Now there's an idea.

I was thinking Wenatchee sockeye for that weekend, but sockeye are not AOTY fish.
Then I was thinking fly fishing with Pisco, but he's not available that weekend, and I already have my AOTY trout.

Banks looks attractive for bass, panfish, walleye !!!

-Allen

I've fished Banks a few times over the years, with mixed success. (It's about a 2 hour drive, so I don't go often.) I've done ok on perch, bass, trout and carp (on the flyrod). I've totally struck out on walleye, despite many hours of effort. It didn't help, the last time, when my FF croaked and left me blind.

The area around Sunbanks and Steamboat Rock SP (NE corner) gets pretty busy, and loud when it warms up. I've had little PBs, with bigblock motors, blow by me at 60+mph. Early mornings will be best for quiet. I usually fish either the SW corner, where Hwy 2 crosses, or the NW corner at a place called Barker Canyon.

Big Wally's report suggests that fish will be deeper. (Post-spawn and warm out.) http://www.bigwallys.info/FishingReport.htm

Photos from a trip in June-