We had family visiting from Anaconda, Montana, and they like to fish. Last summer I took them out on Lake Wenatchee for sockeye, and I was hoping to get up to Fish Lake, near Lake Wenatchee, and fish for trout from the dock at the Cove Resort. I wanted to be sure we could do that, so I drove up there to check on conditions. It was a clear and sunny day at the lake, and unfortunately, I found the cove frozen over. I could see that people had broken off chunks of ice so they could get their baits into the water from the dock. The chunks were an inch or two thick, and the water they had opened up was frozen again. There probably is some open water out on the main lake, and from what I could see, the ice is only two or three inches thick, and I wouldn’t advise trying to walk on it. Looking at the forecast for this area there aren’t many sub-freezing days. It is going to take a while for the ice to get thick enough for people to get out on Fish Lake and drill holes to catch the perch and other species.