When my daughter Whitney comes to visit, one of our favorite things to do is go fishing at Banks Lake. She caught onto catching smallmouth bass many years ago and followed that with having very good luck catching big walleye. So, when she came over from Seattle for Father’s Day, we already knew we would be on Banks the following day. This year we launched the Bob Feil Boats and Motors Smoker Craft at Steamboat Rock State Park instead of Northrup, so she could try outdo her catch of a whopper walleye in Devils Punchbowl. We had a bunch of bites in the Punchbowl, but didn’t hook anything, so we ran around Steamboat to the sand flats above The Poplars. Just a couple of bites here, too, so off we went to Barker Flats. Whitney landed a nice smallmouth bass, and we also got a small walleye here. We both like to fish the Million Dollar Mile stretch below Rosebush, and that was our next destination. As soon as we arrived, we were into walleye. We landed a few small fish and got a lot of bites here. We finished our day across the lake having fun catching smallmouth. We had a great time!