Cecil, thanks for the great info. I am located in the southern UP (Escanaba). I was thinking about getting perch from PRI in Standish, Michigan but I dont know if they sell just females but I know they have feed trained perch.Should I stock some kind of minnows and when should I stock them,with the perch or put them in and wait a year then put the perch in?So is that mammoth perch a fluke or do you have a pond full of those giants? The world record perch came from a lake about 80 miles from here (Lake Independence)