I was really looking forward to the opportunity to fish Banks Lake Thursday, and very glad my fishing friend Dennis Beich could join me. We have had some great days on Banks over the years. I had heard the bite was late, so we didn’t meet at Big Wally’s until 9 that morning, and after launching at Northrup headed right over to Barker Flats. I chose a line that put us in 20 to 24 feet of water and were pleased to see some fish on the screen. The bite started slow and then got rolling about 10:30 and we landed some nice walleye and some dandy perch. The bite petered out and since we both like fishing the Million Dollar Mile below Rosebush, we ran down there. However, we didn’t mark a single fish on the screen. So, we ran up to the sand flats on the down lake side of Steamboat, found some fish, and put one in the boat. We wound up with eight walleye and four perch for the day. It took us five dozen crawlers to do it. Obviously, we got a lot of bites. The walleye really had our number, stealing our baits all day long.