I was relieved to find a good safe layer of ice on Fish Lake last week. I was meeting a film crew to tape a segment on the sport of ice fishing and was worried that with all the warm weather and rain the ice had gotten thin. I wasn’t the case though and we got some good footage. Fishing wasn’t great, but we caught some “stunt” fish to show off for the cameras. I did get a report from Evan Eichler, a fishing buddy of mine that the ice was still good last Sunday, and the perch bite was pretty good. He went home with a near limit of fat perch. Anglers who had been enjoying excellent fishing for large perch and some walleye at Moses Lake have called it quits, though. The ice just isn’t thick enough to step out on right now. From what I saw there earlier this winter I have high hopes for the shore fishing this spring. I think that anglers that visit the rip rap shoreline near the I-90 Bridge will have very good success catching perch when the ice clears off. This just came back last year after some scarce years for perch in the spring.