fishing for perch next week

[themaddhatter]

Some of my friends and I are making a senior trip up to the lake house, I'm upstate NY so I have a fair amount of experience with bass and walleye but I'd really like to tear into the perch since the others aren't really in season. Any recommendations on where to go or what/how to use it would be greatly appreciated. We have a boat but there's 9 of us so any places you can reach from the shore or wade into would be preferred. I can't let my friends think I don't know what I'm doing so I'm counting on you all help me defend my honor as a fisherman.