Super User SirSnookalot Posted August 23, 2012 Super User Posted August 23, 2012 Caught this on a spinner bait, very lethargic strike and hardly any fight at all. I couldn't help notice these sores all over it's belly. It's skin looked like spawned out salmon ready to die. Quote
North Ga Hillbilly Posted August 23, 2012 Posted August 23, 2012 My bet goes to it having a block from a swollen up plastic worm, or some other intestinal blockage NGaHB 1 Quote
GeorgiaBassBros Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 Definitely looks very skinny, some kind of intestinal troubles. Quote
Super User AK-Jax86 Posted August 24, 2012 Super User Posted August 24, 2012 I've never seen a bass like that its definitly not right Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted August 24, 2012 Author Super User Posted August 24, 2012 Right from the git go I knew this was a sick puppy. I don't know what caused those sores, maybe an intestinal blockage. If was from a plastic worm it wasn't from me, I don't fish them, this is a small pond in my community, I have 6 of them there, in 9 years I have never seen anyone fish it but me, but I'm not there 24 hours day either. Quote
Hattrick7 Posted August 24, 2012 Posted August 24, 2012 Maybe the fish was handled in a way that took off too much of it's slime and then going back in th e water bacterial infection started to set in. Quote
GeorgiaBassBros Posted August 25, 2012 Posted August 25, 2012 Ive caught fish that have been caught and handled by dozens of uneducated fishermen, i dont think it has anything to do with an infection due to lack of slime Quote
Hattrick7 Posted August 25, 2012 Posted August 25, 2012 Ive caught fish that have been caught and handled by dozens of uneducated fishermen, i dont think it has anything to do with an infection due to lack of slime Not saying it is but just from what I've read. http://www.arkansasstripers.com/fish-slime-coat.htm Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted August 25, 2012 Author Super User Posted August 25, 2012 Just knowing this pond, the people that live there and who else fishes (none that I've seen) parasites makes the most sense. Quote
Super User Sam Posted August 25, 2012 Super User Posted August 25, 2012 There is a bass specific disease that has attacked Buggs Island over the past few years. It has seemed to run its course but it was a major problem. It is the largemouth bass virus disease where the bass get sores and lose weight. Here is the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries report link. I would think it would be unusual to have the infection in your pond. However, you may want to have it checked out by your state's fisheries department. http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/news/release.asp?id=269 Quote
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