Lure in the throat...VERY good chance of future death.....no food in the stomach, not uncommon this time of year, but they looked pretty fat, so i would have to say that they weren't missin many meals. I would have to say that having too many big fish...not a crucial issue unless there are enough to deplete the forage base enough as to make food scarce, its dynamic so it would take a caouple of bad year classes in the panfish populations as well....not common, but potential for ocurrence.