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.

My bet goes to it having a block from a swollen up plastic worm, or some other intestinal blockage

NGaHB

I'll second that.

Definitely looks very skinny, some kind of intestinal troubles.

I've never seen a bass like that its definitly not right

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.

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.

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

Looks like a parasite to me.

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

Just knowing this pond, the people that live there and who else fishes (none that I've seen) parasites makes the most sense.

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