Always wanted to fish Fish Lake, but never dreamed I'd finally do it through the ice. This was our first ice fishing adventure in Washington State. Ice fished in North Dakota at 60 below F windchill, so 35-40 degree temps February 11-13, 2012 at Fish Lake were much more comfortable!

Three of us went with a friend who has ice fished Fish Lake many times so it made our adventure successful. We fished Friday evening, and on and off all day Saturday and Sunday. The ice was approximately 12-14" thick. There was a snow compressed top layer of maybe 6 inches, then an air space, then another 4-6" of hard ice. We had our fish camera with us and in 30 foot depths the water temperature was 34 degrees. Hard to imagine how the fish survive at all without ice-kill.

Our goal was to catch perch. The first darn thing I did was catch a rainbow trout. The four of us brought home 91 perch and 7 trout.
We had an Eskimo ice shelter with propane heater, lights, chairs, and camera, so when we wanted to get out of the wind or just relax, we retreated to our castle. We must have been the tourist attraction has several groups of snowmobilers came out to check us out and come inside the shelter for a look-see.

We had a great time and promptly returned the smaller fish to grow bigger for another visit.

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