While fishing for perch at the Coulee City Marina a couple of weeks back, a fellow ice angler said he would keep me posted on the ice fishing conditions on Moses Lake. He was anxious for the ice to form with enough thickness to allow fishing and he hoped that the “jumbo” perch would show up as they did last year. True to his word he called me, saying that the ice was safe and that there were some really big perch being caught. I made the trip to Moses Lake one afternoon and found him waiting for me. He had a bucketful of perch that he and his fishing partner had accumulated during the day, and just after I arrived, he pulled a 13 ½-inch perch through the ice. I didn’t see anything under 9 inches in their bucket, and there were even some keep-sized walleye included in their catch. If you like big perch, Moses Lake is the place to find them right now. Later in the week I made a trip to Rocky Ford Creek. The fishing was pretty tough actually, but in the afternoon it picked up at bit. I lost a big one, and my fishing partner Brian landed a whopper, somewhere between 25 and 27 inches!