Mabel Jima was visiting her grandparents, Tom and Diane Verschuren, who live in Dryden, and I wanted to take her fishing while she was here. This 10-year-old is an accomplished angler who catches fish from the dock at her home on Lake Sammamish. Fish Lake is close to our home in Leavenworth, and I figured we could entertain her with perch fishing. It was a bit breezy when we arrived at the lake, but nothing like what I had been dealing with on Lake Wenatchee during sockeye season. I drove the boat out to where I usually find schools of perch, and looked and looked but didn’t really find anything. Finally, I just shut down the big motor and put the bow mount down on Anchor Mode. We baited our hooks with pieces of nightcrawler and tossed them out. I immediately hooked a perch and soon we were all hauling in fish. Mabel got the hang of it and even took the perch off the hook and dispatched them with the fish bat. We went through a tub of crawlers and caught over 40 nice perch. She had a great time and looks forward to another trip to Fish Lake. soon.