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Has anybody fished the Megabass Vatalions? How does it compare to a Gantarel, for example?

More comparable to the Gantarel Jr in size... runs deeper than the Gantarel Jr with slightly more resistance in the water. Its a two piece bait where the Gantarel is a 3. Best fished at a slow to medium speed...

http://www.tackletour.com/reviewmegabassvatalion.html

"A big, overgrown, two-piece lipless crankbait." Hmm, I think I could run with that. Sounds like the stock hooks need replacing anyway, wondering if stouter hooks would make it suspend rather than rise.

my son brought me two of them.. it took a while but i finally got the hang of it..

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Different action, it's more of a cross between a lipless and a cover style glide bait, less fluid motion than the gantrel. I love that you can fish it shallow over submerged weeds.

Drakestar wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 4:27 pm

Has anybody fished the Megabass Vatalions? How does it compare to a Gantarel, for example?

I hated it at 1st because I threw both and the Gantarel constantly outfished the Vatalion 20:1 but then i realized I was fishing them both slow and slow is not how the Vatalion wants to be fished. About the time the water warms up and I put the Gantarels away is when the Vatalions should shine as a more aggressive bait. This is my plan this year. Last year I fished them slow along side the Gantarel and they were awful performers with that slow roll and pause retrieve I use on the Gantarels. Only later did i hear about burn and pausing the bait.

I need to go back to trying Vatalions from the kayak this spring. I'd never quite unlocked this bait since I asked the question, but I have a bunch of weed beds where I might burn a Bucca Bull Shad or traditional lipless overhead. Sounds like this bait (with possibly more pronounced stops) could be a good producer in the same spots.

If you pause the Vatallion over a weed bed, it will fall right into it. Don't over think it with this bait. I've had great success fishing it on a straight retrieve.

Mine float?

LowRange wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 31, 2023 6:30 am

Mine float?

LOL.. then I'm just remembering wrong carry on

I am starting to understand the appeal of this bait. At 1st I thought it was a worse Gantarel because when fished the same it performed much worse. It just didn't get the bites. I was slow rolling and pausing in early spring with the bait like I fish the Ganatel but these work better with a burn and pause retrieve. I was burning and pausing over weeds and getting bit like crazy with the bait during a rainstorm. It's an aggressive bite bait vs the seductive allure of the Gantarel.

The Gantarel also works very well burned

Cal wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 07, 2023 6:20 am

The Gantarel also works very well burned

I'll have to do that with one I have that has lost the diving fins. With the fins it would dive too deep to burn over my grass. I was going to give it new fins but I'll leave them off.