My gut feeling for bullheads is that in a pond with predators of any kind, recruitment is so low that you eventually acheive a bifraction of bullhead sizes; those being too big to be eaten, and those small juveniles who never really last.

So I think that the bullheads would only provide forage with young of the year that would only last for few days if that.

If a bullhead somehow got to 3", 5" or even 7", I think he'd be looking over his shoulder constantly while hearing the theme from Jaws over and over in his head.


Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:"
"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."