That's a cool fish!

I had never caught one prior to our trip to Maine this past summer. We stayed on a big natural lake that was very clear and probably low fertility. It seemed like the yellow perch were the primary prey species. Every afternoon big schools of them would get chased to the top of the water and they looked much like a school of shad would here. Most of them seemed to be 3 to 4" long, and white perch of a pound or so were eating them. I also caught a nice smallmouth that was under the yellow perch.

It seemed strange to me that what I thought was mostly a predator species was the prey on this lake.