Ozark that's troubling...sorry to hear it. I don't have scientific data to support diet of GBH, but from personal experience I have seen many BG from my trophy pond [8-10"] with spear marks that obviously escaped, and have seen a few nice SMB dead on the bank with the same injury markings over the years. Suggests to me a GBH will target anything possible, even if it's too large to eat. Considering this, I discourage them whenever possible, but that's far easier said than done. I can't imagine the damage performed between visits as an absenteee land owner myself.

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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