Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Natural balance

DC - If you keep your bass population strong the bass will keep the bullheads from becoming overabundant. LMB like to eat bullheads. Also if you spend some time fishing for or targeting bullheads this will help reduce their numbers. You can bait an area with cut bait, chopped offal, cut up fresh road kill or halved dead minnows/foragefish and catch lots of bullhads during dusk or early evening in these baited areas.

If you have all sizes of bullheads, the ones greater than 9" are pretty good eating when fried. Our family always ate bullheads in Canada when we caught them while bobber fishing for perch or walleye. They are best tasting when water is less than 80F. Some consider bullheads a delicacy when smoked. I have eaten them fired and smoked and both ways they were good and better than LMB that I have eaten. I very rarely eat LMB and only those that are bleeding when deeply hooked.

I would not stock flathead catfish into your pond. If you do, you will see your LMB populations also decrease. LMB will do as good or better job of keeping bullheads under control as flathead catfish.