Looked at the two links and I think there is some really good info in both of them. The first one was a little tougher to read in my opinion. Of the three cited links one of them notes the shift bass (50-100mm) as having a preference to larger prey, the second either didn't note this behavior or omitted it and the third didn't appear to test fish of this size. The Go big or study you linked sounded as if it was modeling some formulas in software that could be used throughout the life of various species. From what I could see between the one I sited and the Go big or study was they had similar findings on size of prey for the 50-100mm of prey.
The YoY LMG study said the LMB showed a preference to larger prey at 50 - 100mm x 35% = 17.5 - 35mm average for this slot only with an upper limit of 40% according to finding in the study from stomach contents.
The Go big or study Fig 1 the LMB 50 - 100mm had prey sizes noted from 5 - 40mm but the frequency wasn't listed. Guessing a little here based on the graph.
Your info you listed above in a previous reply had the values of 16-30% or 8 - 30mm for prey when the LMB was 50 - 100mm.
Appears as if all of these numbers are pretty close and we are kind of splitting hairs. The differences would no doubt be larger as the fish got bigger but really working on fish in two groups here - 50-100mm and 100-200mm.
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