I hate the things too. In addition to everything else, you can count on two things from a bullhead. First, they will swallow the hook. Second, they'll fin you when you try to take them off the hook and it will hurt.

As for ponds being taken over... You can probably count mine in that column. I think they (and green sunfish) got in there and became dominant before I added bluegill, redear, and bass. I suspect that most of those baby bluegill, redear, and bass then became fish food. The last two times my wife and I visited the lake, we caught a total of two bass and three bullheads on bass type lures. The last fish I caught there was actually a bullhead on a 1/8th ounce spinnerbait (I think 1/8th, it may have been 1/4).

Some people like to eat them. I prefer bluegill or something else.

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