Wow, definitely something wrong with that trout!

Yes competing with the bass for food probably didn't help, but your pellet feeding program is almost certainly the best solution to that problem.

I doubt (non-expert opinion) that it is a disease since you only have the one. Probably a unique problem to that fish. Fish hook in gullet, blockage in gastrointestinal tract, went blind, etc.?

Good luck on keeping the rest of your trout fat and happy!



P.S. Are you going to try to cull the LMB?