BTW, I forgot ( I gotta get used to that I guess ) to mention, I saw quite a sight about 2 weeks ago ( right in the middle of the CC die off ) while standing at the feeders waiting for them to go off, I saw a wounded or perhaps dead BG, not a monster, but over a pound floating up to the surface on the smaller side of the pond, several CC took a swipe at it with no luck.
However, that wave action caused it to float over to the deep side of the pond and I happened to be looking at the fish when out of the depths came a huge CC that swallowed it and it had a mouth so large that BG did not even appear to touch any portion of its mouth. Got a pretty good look at that fish, it looks an awful lot like the 24 pounder I found later, but it was quite a sight to be that close ( only 3 feet or so ) to the action and see a huge fish eat a pretty good sized fish!!
