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Banks Lake Report
Grant County, WA

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04/26/2012
56° - 60°
Bottom Fishing From Boat
Crappie
Nymph
Olive
Cloudy
Jig
Afternoon
61° - 65°
04/27/2012
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Thursday was an absoutely amazing day of fishing for huge black crappie on Banks lake! I Hooked up with A.J. Barnett of Moses Lake, Aka "Worm" to all you Walakes fishermen. We were bummed that the wet weather in the morning gave us some time to sleep in a bit, But we made it up to Banks in good time to see big thunderheads and wind with white caps on the main lake. Undetered, Ad and I managed to launch My 10 foot flat bottom into a protected bay. What transpired over the next few hours can only be explained as Mayhem. Water temps were pretty cold around 50 degrees at the launch, so we searched for that important 52 degree mark or above. Adam was determined to use only my plastics like the new Stone Dragun jigs. We caught a number of largemouth bass to 1 1/2 pounds around tule points and shoreline rocks. But everything changed when I tied on a 1/16th oz DamZel Nymph Crappie Jig in smoke/pepper with a chartruse tail. We found a single patch of cattails along a non-discript patch of shoreline that protruded out into the Lake in about 6 feet of water. And off that point, we found some huge back crappie stacked up in there. Swimming those Nymphs as close to the cattails as possible, Adam and I boated over 50 bass and crappie, the biggest bass were around 4 pounds and the biggest crappies were -(check out the pictures below! Slabs...The kind people only talk about.) Adam caught a jet black male that had to be over two pounds! Contending with the wind, we caught and released at least three dozen bass, the two biggest around 4 pounds were kept long enough for some quick pictures. We only took home enough crappie for a well deserved fish fry. I'm currently molding a new batch of my killer Nymphs to replace all the chewed up plastic we lost during that hot bite. A little note: we put the In Fishermen's Critical Concepts and Angler's Edge theory's to work for us today. Matching the Crappie and Bass's natural forage with Custom designed baits won the day . Let me know here if you are interested in trying em' out for yourself sometime. Jiggy


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topdawg47
4/27/2012 4:27:00 PM
Man, beast mode! Great work guys. I'd like to try the jigs. Think you are sending my Dad some of your lures.
AJ's Dad
4/27/2012 4:27:00 PM
You have my attention. How does a guy get a bag of these wonder baits?
cinatikid
4/27/2012 4:29:00 PM
thats what im talking about cant to try your jigs out i havent seen crappie like that sense i left ohio
afk
4/27/2012 6:07:00 PM
Keep it up Jiggy!!
nwtoolman
4/27/2012 6:35:00 PM
I would love to try out some of your jigs. I went to the I 82 ponds last week in search of the crappie and couldn't find them. Would love to try your jigs on some of these western waters.
bassplayer17
4/27/2012 7:47:00 PM
nice gotta love banks.....id jig a few of them too.
Rocky
4/27/2012 8:09:00 PM
Jiggy you are the Crappie King way to go they look like some real slabs. I use to get some slabs out of Mardon resort that look like that. I thought they were all gone way to go prove me wrong.Thanks a lot brother God bless keep the reports coming.
The Jigmiester
4/27/2012 9:24:00 PM
Feel free to email me @ dobberdeluxe@yahoo.com. Thanks Guys. Jiggy
BassSlayer1981
4/28/2012 1:25:00 PM
Nice fish! I was fishing Banks last week for bass and didn't have any luck. I saw plenty of big carp swimming around the shallows though.
Yakfish
4/29/2012 7:37:00 AM
I've put Jiggy's jigs to the test and they produce. Great job out there guys. Fish On, Yakfish
RC
5/2/2012 11:55:00 AM
Count me in. I'd love to give um a try. We love to catch crappie.
Dan
5/14/2012 12:10:00 AM
Looks like Devils Punchbowl behind you - am I right? Headed from Banks the 1st week of June I used to get enjoy some great crappie fishing there in the 70s & 80s. But never that early & in more recent years, I not had much success with the Crappies. Would love to try some of your jigs & will email you.
davidwat1
5/22/2012 11:38:00 PM
What an awesome outing! Great job and great report! Thanks for sharing!
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