Hopefully you do NOT have any snakes at your pond large enough to get their mouth around a 1# BG!
YBH are fusiform, and their spikey fins do not deploy when swallowed head first.
Fortunately they do deploy when trying to regurgitate said bullhead. We caught a 24 lb Flathead on a bank pole in the river, that had swallowed a 1+ lb bullhead head first and we landed him without ever having a hook in Flathead himself. the fins deployed and held him for us.
All the really good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
