Fish are pale, skinny, fins ragged, and they have sores on them. 
 

I got eight today and it was pretty universal.   They still fight hard as heck.  Very gentle subtle bites. 
 

 

 

Looks good to me! Nice catch 

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Looks good to me! Nice catch 

 

I agree. That's a good looking bass. 

Here is a sore. Gross

 

 

Susquehanna River smallmouth are having the same problem. It's supposed to be cancer.

 

oh no.  cancer!  

Awww Just eat around those parts 

On 9/18/2023 at 11:23 AM, Darth-Baiter said:

Here is a sore. Gross

 

 

That just looks like a healing wound from being caught before. Every bass in our lakes has at least a few of those from being caught multiple times.