Nate Stully has had some good days on Banks Lake fishing for walleye this season, and he invited me to join him and Lee Stevenson last Thursday to give it a try. We met at Steamboat State Park, where the cleaning station is operating now. This makes it an even more attractive place to launch on Banks. Since it is in the Punch Bowl you can often find calmer water in here on a windy day. We first tried an area on the backside of Steamboat Rock and worked our way down to the Clay Banks between Steamboat and the Poplars. We got a fish in this area and missed several bites. We moved into the Poplar Bay and did get one more walleye. We tried a couple of spots across the lake and further down, still looking for fish. The screen on the depth sounder had been mostly blank, and we were scratching our heads about where the fish may have gone. I jumped off about 2 and Nate and Lee took off for Barker Flats. He texted me that they got two more fish over there and missed a bunch of bites. I should have stayed on board!