I had a great day last Friday. Tom Verschuren and I traveled to Banks Lake for two reasons. One was to shoot a video, from the water, of all the boat launches on the big reservoir. The other was to take a few minutes to cast for bass near the launches while we were at it. We put the boat in at the Coulee City campground, and motored around the corner to the backside of the breakwater and caught a whopper smallmouth. We fished in Devils Punchbowl, across from the launch in the State Park, and caught both largemouth and smallmouth bass here. We got a nice smallmouth fishing along the riprap near the boat launch in Osborn Bay. We shot some video at Coulee Playland and then ran over to the Barker Canyon boat ramp. We fished a couple of spots on our way to the bottom end of the lake where we started. The shoreline across from the Upper Million Dollar Mile boat launch is a favorite area to fish to Tom and me. I have put hundreds of smallmouth in my boat fishing with Tom and others casting to the shale slides and sunken rocks along here.