I decided to take a swing through the area and check on a couple of places that I haven’t been to in a while. I am always curious about the perch fishing on the Wasteway on Road 5 NW. Some years ago, it was loaded with small perch, and we even made a few family outings there and the kids would have a ball hauling the perch up the steep bank. I can usually tell if the perch are back. There would be telltale signs of anglers, like discarded worm cartons and such. It was evident that no one had been fishing, so I moved on to another location that I wanted to check on. When the water is drawn down on Billy Clapp Lake, only very small boats launch to fish here in the winter. Last year, when I stopped by, I found anglers fishing from the shore. I could tell that some of them were regulars, and one even showed me some photos of some whopper rainbow he landed from the beach. I even did a short video on the shore fishing: “Winter Fishing at Billy Clapp” can be found on the Dave Graybill YouTube channel. Check it out.