BGK if you beef up tackle you can keep their head's turned to you by putting plenty of pressure on your line and rod, which is the key in quickly landing HSB. Also, always release fish in the water, without removing them, with a good pair of hemostats. If they get sideways on you, they gain far too much leverage with their wide bodies, and you're either going to break off or commit to a 5 min + fight. An extended fight in the Spring or Fall might be ok, but not in NE or MO mid Summer temps/DO levels.

Just be sure to monitor fishing and appropriately train the anglers to fight HSB correctly in the Summer, choose to avoid HSB fishing in the Summer months, or like you said - be prepared to fillet exhausted fish. Could you cage caught HSB and ensure they recover before releasing into the pond again?

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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