Banks Lake
All 1,100 catchable trout stocked in Banks Lake in 2025 arrived between March and May.
WDFW data through Oct 30, 2026. Page updated .
Banks Lake in numbers
- catchable trout in 2025
- 1,100
- so far in 2026, through Oct 30
- 1,200
- 2025 against the 2015–2025 average of 39,167 a year
- −97%
2026 is running close to 2025: 1,200 fish through Oct 30, against 1,100 by the same date a year earlier. The latest batch, 1,200 rainbow trout, went in on Apr 17, 2026, 202 days before this page was built.
WDFW lists Banks Lake as 26,888.3 acres in Grant County, at 1,574 ft. Spread over 26,888.3 acres, its 2025 stocking comes to about 0.0 catchable trout per acre, one of the lowest rates of the 37 waters on this site with a WDFW acreage.
Every release since January 2025
2 species-date records, newest first. Fish per lb is the figure WDFW reports for each batch.
Fish released each year
2025 is yellow. 2026 is outlined because the year is not over: the data runs to Oct 30, 2026. A dash means WDFW has no record for that year. The busiest full year was 2015, with 2 release dates and 148,509 fish; the 2015–2025 average is 1.2 release dates a year.
How big are these fish?
- 4 to 8 oz
- 2,300 fish, 100%
Weight is 1 ÷ fish per lb, as WDFW reports it for each batch. It is a batch average, not a guarantee for any one fish. Counts cover every release since January 2025.
Notes from the records
The biggest single batch since January 2025 was 1,200 rainbow trout on Apr 17, 2026. The heaviest fish were 1,100 rainbow trout on Apr 18, 2025, at 2.3 per lb, about 7 oz each.
Timing shifts from year to year. Treat this as a pattern, not a promise.
Closest waters on this site
37 miFranks Pond
46 miRoses Lake
46 miLake Roosevelt (Kettle Falls)
Straight-line distance between the map points WDFW gives for each water, not driving distance.