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This time of year it is very tough for me to get out for bass. I live in NY and it gets cold pretty quick and I have alternatives to bass that I can target all winter in open water, so this is pretty much it for the year for warmwater fish. Im making a summary of my best 5 fish on swimbaits this year, in no particular order. 34 inch pike I caught out of a small lake where i've grown up hiking and stuff at. There is only one pike in this lake and given how much I fish this lake, I needed to catch it at some point. 34 inches isn't massive but it's my heaviest pike by weight and my first big catch of the season. Second I have my new PB bass of 6lb 7oz I caught at night at a lake in the adirondack mountains. This got me hooked on night fishing. Third is a bass around 5 pounds I caught from the Erie canal about 1 mile from my house. I fish here a ton since it's so close to me and I've never really caught any big bass out of it. Over the summer we had a ton of rain and the bass in the canal went nuts. I had 3 fish over 4 pounds this one day which were all bigger than anything I had caught previously from the erie canal. 4th is another bass similar size to the previous one, and the exact same conditions too, although this time it was mid october. I knew the bite would be on and it was! 5th and definitely my favorite catch this year is a massive tiger muskie I caught in October. I never measured it well but putting it against my rod I think it was 41-44 inches, and certainly over 40 which was my goal. I wasn't even going to fish this day cause I had an 18 mile run right before my friend picked me up to go. I told him I would need to catch a muskie to stay functioning for the day. I've never caught a fish that big before and I can't imagine what a 50+inch muskie looks like in person, hopefully i'll find out one day. Lastly id like to thank everyone that has shared information with me and answered my questions since I started swimbait fishing. These past two years I have caught more and larger fish than I ever had, I never expected to be this successful with them up here in NY.

Diet gill that I make 20211117_152253.mp4

Cruised the shallows today looking for trout eaters. Stuck a bunch of dinks on the Suicide Glide and the Sneaky Pete. Biggest being six pounds. We decided to see if there were any dock monster at the marina, so we headed over. My friend on the boat was new to glide fishing. So I gave him a quick tutorial. Make a long cast, let it sink for a second and start your retrieve. Bamm! The fish swam at the boat, looking at both of us as it swam for deep water. Making the boat do a 180° turn. The fish took around five minutes to land and lived up to every big striper story ive ever heard. Man what a battle. She went 25.85 on the gen 1 Baitsanity Explorer.

My buddy bought and older model DC 200 back in the day - I don’t remember the year he purchased and he said the DC module failed. When he tried to get it repaired he was told that the DC module in the older models is a non serviceable unit so now he has an expensive jigging reel. So with that in mind act irresponsibly and get the latest and greatest. LOL I love my 2020 DC 201’s HG.

Drop the money and never look back. I ordered mine last month and I’m considering changing all my reels to the dc.

86 doomrider for glide, ufo wake is killer, and an OD reg rat

UFO mothershilp, BGC crank down, and the Jlure glide.

Pair of HighSocietySwimbaits Gillusion Wake/Cranks

Cl8 baby possum is a staple for me personally.

If you wanna go cheap try the Spro Rat 50 size. Thing gets bit like crazy, rat bites are so fun.

Got out for a couple hours broke in the new trucha with a solid one. Also got a nice one on the mini.

As far as DC conquests I have a 2005 250DC and a 2020 200DC-HG. The newer stuff has advancements such as micro module gears, MGL spool, more bearings probably, and s-compact body, and newer DC system. What that means at the end of the end of the day as a user is that it performs a little better (casts farther), feels a little more buttery smooth when compared to the 2005, and fits easier in the palm. I enjoy fishing both, and I plan on getting more older conquests. They’re bullet proof, easy to work on (DC or not), have great performance, and I like the nostalgia as well. They also cost a little less as you point out. In the end I think you’ll be happy regardless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dMuDXlsmoc Epic Bait Molds did a video on this! what bait are you thinking of casting?

Throw a F'N worm at this point. ish is a joke here in socal, about to spend my $ on scuba gear and collect baits these guys loose.

Caught this fish right off of a tree that was in about 20 feet of water. Deps 250 does it again. Flipped her in with the leviathan omega HX.

Received the bait this week . Never had much luck on the wNc but maybe we can change that sometime this week will keep The Underground updated.

Found a decent NJ November Bass cranking the psycho gill down along a wind blown point with a steep drop off - there were some blue gills schooled up around the drop off. Got a lil fella as well - but I have to say they’re the cleanest, healthiest late fall bass I’ve seen in NJ for a while.

Aiden, i think he just means that for a first bait it's a bit ambitious to try and sell it when It has no history of fish, nor do you have a huge bait building background, or a known swimbait background. If the baits have great action, then fish them and continuously catch fish with them. As for a paintjob, don't worry about that. It's a wake bait, fish aren't smashing it because the bait looks good when all they see is a silhouette, they smash wake baits because of the action. Paintjobs on wakebaits are to help catch fishermen.