Megabass SleeperGill vs. the Berkeley Gilly, which one is the best? Let's find out. If you like this kind of content please hit that like and subscribe button. Also if you're new, comment below. Just tell me a sub. I'd like to say hello and welcome you to the team. Over the last two years, the Megabass SleeperGill, which came out this year in 2022, and last year, the Berkeley Gilly, which one I cast best of show in 2021, are two of the toughest baits to get a hold of. Both are soft plastic baits. One is pre-rigged. One is not. The Berkeley Gilly is a knockoff of a Japanese bait that's the javelin gill that is an exceptional bait, but really, really tough to rig, especially if you're a beginning angler. Even as an advanced angler that I consider myself, I had a hard time getting the Berkeley Gilly to run properly and had to learn how to rig it right too. But that's not where we're here to talk about. We're going to talk about the pros and cons of each bait because we need to know which one's better. So to start off, let's talk about the SleeperGill. And yes, it doesn't have a tail. That's one of the cons, but let's talk about the pros to start off with. The Mega Bass SleeperGill has exceptional action in the water. It has a side to side wobble and that tail kicks nonstop. It's priced around $10 and you get one and it is pre-rigged with a forot hook that exposes when a bass bites it. It is weabless, but not really weabless. You can tell that has a really thick head to start off with. And while that's one of the pros, it's also a con because the grass does get right there. It's a great deep water bait. This bait is kind of heavy. It's three quarters of an ounce, so soon as it hits the water, it flutters down. As it flutters down that tail automatically starts and that's a good thing because there's a lot of times that you'll make a cast and that bait will get bit. As soon as it hits the water and starts fluttering down, like I said, it has exceptional action. The concealed hook is really, really great and it casts like a dream. Now, some of the negatives, let's just start off and talk about it. That tail coming off. I bought two of them and both tails came off after about five, six, seven, ten bites and that stinks. It's one of the toughest baits to get and that also sucks, too. I would say it's being tough to purchase is one of the things I didn't like about it because like right now you couldn't get one. The other thing is when you get them, this part of the plastic here needs to be cut so that it exposes more right in that area. I know you can't really see it real well because it's right there. Like I said, even though it is weedless, the head of this bait gets a lot of grass. I really wouldn't call it weedless. I think if you're in a deeper water and you don't have a ton of grass, it probably is absolutely fantastic. For me down here in Florida, we have a lot of grass. So a majority of the time I was pulling grass off that front nose. The Berkeley Gilly, you get four pieces per pack which is really good. Depending on how much size you get, they go from 799 to 899 which is really kind of great. Those are a couple of the pros. It has extreme action in the water as it comes to you and if it's rigged properly, it swims unbelievable. I wouldn't say it's the most durable bait but we'll get into that into the cons in a second. It has realistic colors, realistic movements. It is scented with the Berkeley Mac scent. It stays in the upper water column. So if you're down here in Florida, you really love that but it's really an upper column bait. And last but not least, it is weedless when you rig it properly. One of the cons or some of the cons are it's a nightmare to rig. If you're new angler, this is not the bait for you because you need to rig it here and through there. The other thing is in this case is that on my first fish, the nose broke right there and that really stinks. So while I got one bite, the bait was useless, useless after that one bite. Again, it's a knockoff of, it's a better knockoff of that javelin gill and priced a lot better so that's awesome too. And while a pro is staying in the upper water column, it's also a con too because there are times that you want it to slip into that middle water column and it just doesn't do that. You can let it sink, put your rod tip down and as soon as you start reeling it insanely slow, which is a con, it comes to the top of the water, even using a liter and braid and that kind of stuff. It wanted to stay up top. In my case, I didn't know if the bait was swimming properly. After I got the first bite, I put another one on and I didn't know if the bait was swimming properly in the water. And also, I had a lot of missed hookups with this bait and that was very surprising. In the day I went fishing, I had six or seven fish that I missed. I actually never landed a fish with this bait and that was kind of disappointing and made me realize that maybe something was wrong. So we've talked about the pros and the cons of both baits. Both are soft plastic, smaller profile baits that really are the cream of the crop, to be honest. The Berkeley Gilly, when rigged right and having it, having it in the water is exceptional. It really is exceptional. My flaw in this bait is that it's hard to rig and when it isn't, you're not sure if it's rigged properly as it's swimming towards you. There were a lot of times I felt like the bait was swimming just a hair on its side, almost that way, instead of being this way. And my hookup ratio was horrible with this bait. While I still got several bites, so I think I got six or seven bites. I never technically got, I never touched a fish. I felt the bite, set the hook and didn't, the hook didn't penetrate the fish. And that really stinks. Where is the opposite of the mega bass? As soon as that bass hit the bait, I caught the fish. I think when it was all said and done, I only missed one fish with the mega bass sleeper kill. Now I know what you're thinking. Price has a huge effect on. If you buy these baits, you get four of these baits for $7.99. You get one one of these baits for $9.99. And honestly, you can't even find this bait right now. This bait since insanely hard to find. But which one's better? Now, I would think the best thing for you to do is to go out and try both of them. But if you want my opinion, and that's why you're watching this video, hopefully, I buy the sleeper kill. When you can get the sleeper kill, I go out and buy as many as you can. I think the Berkeley Gilly, there's a place in the market for it. When you can figure out how to hook it right, or if you're going to use it in a drop shot, or rigging it differently, then when you have to rig it through the nose and then sideways, I'm questioning if that's the correct way to fish that bait because truth be told, just didn't land any fish with it. Now, I think I saved in the video. I made 100 casts with the Berkeley Gilly. Probably more than that. I had six or seven bites, zero landed fish. I had probably 25 or 30 on this, before the tail left on two of them. And I think I caught 10 or 12 bass, decent size bass note, no real small ones. The one thing I did realize is consistently I was seeing a good number of fish that were in that two, two and a half pound range with this bait. Now, I will say, I don't think this is a Florida bait. I think everybody up north, and any place where there's a little bit clear, cleaner water, will really enjoy this mega bass sleeper. In Florida down here, we have so much grass that once it gets down, it's hard to come through. It's still as weedless, but you still get a lot of grass in the front. But like I said, if I'm going to buy any of them, I'm buying the sleeper kill. God's honest truth. I have more confidence in that bait already. I have confidence in because I was catching fish, and I was hooking fish, where I wasn't hooking fish with the gilly. But like I said, I think you should try both. But if you want my opinion, put your money in the mega bass sleeper kill. It is exceptional. And I don't mean that lightly. It is exceptional. You can keep your rod tip high, and just flat out catch fish with this bait. I don't like that it lost its tail. I really don't like that. I mean, after six or seven fish losing the tail for $10, get some in a little upset. But I'm still trying to find as many as I can right now because I just catch them. It really does catch them. There's my winner. 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