I had heard from a couple of contacts that the perch were bigger than usual at Fish Lake, near Lake Wenatchee. I suggested to Tom Verschueren that we go up and check it out, and he agreed to join me for a few hours on the lake. He enjoys fishing here, and we have had some great days catching trout, kokanee, bass and perch. More than anything though he just likes being on the lake to take in the scenery and the wildlife. We often spot bald eagers and always watch ospreys snatching fish off the surface of the lake, and on this trip, we even watched a group of otters moving across the water. We do like to catch perch, though. He got his first taste of perch last year and is now more eager than ever to get out and get a bunch. I told him that I didn’t want to keep anything small and it turned out that most of the perch we landed were 9 ½ to just barely 10 inches. These are keeper perch in my book and certainly bigger that the perch we typically have caught in the past on Fish Lake.