John, for what it's worth...A couple of years ago, I was totally overwhelmed with the numbers of green sunfish, and the mongrelized sunfish. I think the largest amount of my greensunfish, were actually the result of many generations of what was originally HBG. Just a guess though. Anyway the reason for my blather.... I had so many, I thought it would be impossible for any apex predator/ predators to thin the numbers down. I was wrong. To help with my goals, I would sit at the pond catching hundreds of small GSF and mongrels. I have been doing something recently I never thought I would do. I have actually started throwing all GSF back in. Harvesting only those I use for bait.
In my opinion, those fish are excellent forage. Maybe not text book perfect, but you may find they will become the backbone of your fishery. WE, SMB, and your YP will thrive on them.
