I read an article on fishing for BH in farm ponds several years ago. It said to enjoy them while you can because in a pond with adequate LMB predation eventually they would become extirpated with none of the young surviving and only the old large ones left.
Jpsdad's idea of using them for a forage fish for LMB by raising them in another pond is an interesting, outside the box thinking, concept. Not one I am going to implement, but interesting nonetheless.
In my old pond that became over run with GSF and BH,
link to my thread and experience with GSF and BH in an old pond we fished it a few days ago and only caught one BH. A couple years ago we would have caught a bunch. So they are being crowded out and eliminated over time. We have both LMB and CC in that pond.
