I had a plan and two willing fishing partners, so I hooked up the Smoker Craft and headed for Rufus Woods. I picked up Tom Verschueren in Dryden and Dennis Beich came up from Moses Lake and met us at Big Wally’s. As we drove along Banks Lake we couldn’t help but notice that the water level was way down. That was a concern for the second part of the plan, so we continued up to the launch at the middle net pens. I fired up the Mercury 250 and ran up to the upper net pens and when I saw a good number of fish on the bottom on the screen of the Garmin, I deployed the Minn Kota. Dennis and Tom were casting ½-ounce sliding sinkers with Power Bait molded onto size 2 hooks. Initially they were finding it difficult to find bottom in the current, but Tom soon figured it out. He started landing fish so fast that we took the hot rod away from him and had Dennis switch places. Soon Dennis and I landed enough fish to finish our limits. The second part of the plan was walleye fishing at Banks Lake, which was a bust.