Many bass end up surviving such GBH attacks, but certainly, it's not a favorable thing.
We've had many PB members who've seen a GBH heron "dropping" fish into a pond. Now, whether or not the GBH just happened to lose control of the live fish, or if it intentionally dropped/stocked the fish is unknown.
I do tend to believe that GBHs move fish in order to create a food supply, and if that's true, then I also believe they will attack other predator fish (LMB) that compete for the same food source of smaller fish.
Seeing a GBH drop a fish one time would lead me to think it could be an isolated incident, but Todd Overton, God rest his soul, stated that he had seen this many, many times at his hatchery.
When you think about a GBH, it's easy to see some similarities to a pre-historic pterodactyl. How many hundreds of thousands of years of instinct would be inbred into a GBH?
