How are your bass doing? They will eat the whole batch of the bullheads. Years ago I had 100's of balls of bullheads like that each year in my lake, now none. If your bass are doing good they will take care of them. I think they gather together by size. I would put a worm under a bobber and throw to a swarm. I would catch different sizes from each swarm. Some were 5 inches long.
LMB are doing good, I have a very low population of LMB and have counted as many as 200 YBH over 8 inches when feeding.
Every time our watershed gets full and the ponds upstream overflow I get a new influx of YBH and GSF. No other neighbors manage or stock their ponds.
I had a fish management company in Kansas that told me they actually put them in ponds if they don't have them to help with LMB growth. I'd just prefer to feed and catch fish I want to eat.
