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Well fed BG should spawn better, that's good. Well fed cats will leave more natural food for BG, that's good until the cats get huge. I hope you like eating catfish.

GBH are a minor, IMO, problem if you have lots of ordinary fish. They tend to be solitary (occasionally pairs are seen together) and if you have a large number of like fish I doubt you will find them ruinous.

If you have a few stupendous fish, the loss of a few is much more objectionable. GBH will wound and kill fish that are too large for them to eat (easily, at least). Cecil Baird has some of the most remarkable large fish around, which he happens to use to make a living, and is impacted noticeably by GBH predation. Being a bright guy he has developed and posted info on some fairly effective control methods. Do a search for "Cecil Baird1" posts with "heron" in them and do some reading.

See the archive thread on posting photos.