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Conditions are holding steady since the previous update.
No current fishing signal — we do not have enough recent reports or flow data to score this water yet.
Large Columbia Basin reservoir with warmwater and trout fly-fishing opportunities.
A quick view of the latest report, gauge, hatch, and fly data available for this water. Missing observations are left unreported rather than estimated.
No hatch observations were included in the latest reports. No current fly recommendations are available.
Recent reports mention Shallow flats.
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Reference location for this water. Individual reports and gauges may describe other locations; this is not a verified access point.
Banks Lake location
47.6700, -119.0600
Observations from the last 48 hours. Each measurement and chart describes its named station.
No station-attributed gauge observations are available in the last 48 hours.
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Locations come from the source report. A gauge reference does not establish where every fishing observation was made. Hatches and fly recommendations belong to their individual report.
Bellingham Confluence
Banks Lake hosted the Schmoots Clooper carp fly fishing tournament in mid-July, with carp and bass both caught. The steep rocky shorelines produced large, aggressive smallmouth bass, and carp were found on the shallow flats.
Reported location: Shallow flats
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