Trainwreck,
Structure is not that important to perch as they spend most of their time on or close to the bottom. In big lakes they spend a lot of their time near bottom traveling like nomads. I would give your pond as much depth as possible with steep banks next to shore to keep weed growth down and keep warming to a minimum. Diffuser aeration would be a must in my opinion to keep deep water habitable as that will eliminate an anoxic layer.
If you really want to grow big perch find a supplier that will sort out only females and plant only females. Females grow the largest and fastest. Males among perch are wimpy! If you have reproduction in your pond you run the risk of stunted perch unless you have a large population of predator fish. If you want to go that route you may want to hear from Bill Cody. Bill?
Get feed trained perch to boot and you have yourself a recipe for some large fast growing perch.
Where are you located? I may be able to lead you to a supplier in your state.
Did you see my state record perch I got out of one of my ponds recently? If not here's a link:
http://www.pbase.com/jjbaird/fish You can click on the pics to make them larger.
