anthropic,
BH compete also with the CNBG. . . and here is an
example of how they can compete with LMB.
There is also a paper online on standing weights of OK farm ponds. One of things they noted was that BG size and standing weights suffered in the presence of BH. The scenario I worked up in the spreadsheet depended on no competing species for the BH and I wonder how the interaction would play out.
If you have some water nearby where you could source good quantities of some decent sized BH, then I really like the idea Bill had about caging them. Then you feed them to your bass from the cage at the rates you see fit. Chop off the pectoral and dorsal spines and the caudal fin and a 14" BH is an easy meal for a 24 inch LMB. It'll weigh a pound more right after the meal too! LOL.
