Megabass Levante P3 Casting Rods 2026 

Will Ship 10/15/2026

Led by Yuki Ito, Megabass’s next-generation rod development team—Project “Zero”—set out to redefine expectations. Their goal was deceptively simple: to make a foundational bass rod that could be the first—and final—choice of discerning anglers. 

Drawing from the technologies and functional concepts proven through years of tournament experience with the US-Spec OROCHI XX and DESTROYER series, Project Zero reimagines the LEVANTE through the lens of Japan’s most demanding fisheries. The result is a rod series for bass anglers around the world, inspiring confidence wherever the next cast takes you.

LEVANTE was developed to deliver consistent, high-level performance, providing balance, feel and reliability in real-world fishing. Its design prioritizes responsiveness and control, giving anglers a rod that feels intuitively trustworthy from the first cast.

Years of competitive feedback informed design and manufacturing refinements, resulting in improved balance and lightness without sacrificing strength and durability. The new High-Density X-Graphite System emphasizes crisp recovery and controlled absorption, improving lure control and cast accuracy while remaining approachable and forgiving across a wide range of applications.

Designed for optimal reel-mounted balance, LEVANTE feel exceedingly light in-hand, allowing anglers to focus on lure behavior and presentation. This contributes to a clear and direct sense of control—supporting confident rod work without fatigue. Each model exhibits ergonomics tuned specifically to its intended method, ensuring comfort and consistency throughout long sessions on the water.

LEVANTE is meant to be a long-term companion—capable enough to grow with the angler, versatile enough to remain relevant, and refined enough to inspire confidence across changing techniques and fisheries. For those seeking foundational performance within the Megabass lineup, LEVANTE is the answer.

• Levante High Density X-Graphite System: LEVANTE’s proprietary high-density layered graphite construction focuses on material efficiency and action consistency. By reducing excess resin and optimizing layer patterning for each model, the blank delivers improved balance and recovery while maintaining the durability required for daily use. The result is a responsive yet stable feel that enhances casting precision and lure control without sacrificing forgiveness.
  
  
• Levante Original Guide System: Matched to each rod’s taper and intended application, Megabass’s original guide layout prioritizes smooth energy transfer and feel. This system supports LEVANTE’s strong casting performance and controlled load distribution, allowing anglers to cover water efficiently while maintaining accuracy and feel.
  
  
• Levante Machine Cut Hood: Precision-machined from solid aluminum, this lightweight hood provides secure reel mounting and consistent rigidity while contributing to overall balance and durability.

• ITO Engineering Airy-Fit Ergonomic Seat Type-L (D.PAT.P): LEVANTE incorporates ITO-designed ergonomic reel seats developed to support natural hand positioning and intuitive control. Minimalist contact surfaces reduce unnecessary material while preserving stability, comfort, and sensitivity across both casting and spinning applications.
  
  
• ITS (ITO Trigger System Ergonomic Casting Seat), (D.PAT.): Built for power fishing, the sculpted design and long trigger provide overwhelming grip for big bait and heavy cover applications. Whether one or two-finger casting or utilizing a full-palm retrieve, ITS is designed to accommodate various grip styles with confidence.
  
  
• IES (ITO Ergonomic Contact Seat), (D.PAT.P): The fast-back design of the reel seat bridge fits deep in the palm of the hand, providing increased contact points to improve feel and control in spinning applications. The IES’s sweeping, tapered fore-grip allows direct contact with the exposed blank, enhancing the kind of delicate bite-detection that is required in deep finesse fishing.

 

F1-65LV BFS spec-UL

Length: 6’5″ | Lure capacity: 1/16 – 3/8oz | Line capacity: 4-12lb | Taper: Slow | Power: Ultra-Light

The BFS spec-UL is a high-performance bait finesse rod designed to bring ultralight bank fishing and crossover trout techniques to life with delightful precision, sensitivity and control.

Tuned specifically for Megabass’ BFS lure lineup and select Great Hunting trout lures, it delivers crisp, rhythmic action that enlivens angler-activated plugs like the KARASHI, BABY POPX, and GH-51 (FS), while exhibiting the graceful absorption that makes small cranks like the SR-X GRIFFON (BFS) a joy to fish. Its slow-taper design enables aggressive walking actions, expanded darting range, and smooth cranking performance, while offering the kind of sensitivity that transmits first shimmy of an X-80 Jr. straight into the angler’s hands.  

The BFS spec-UL’s smooth and intuitive load characteristics empower low-trajectory casting of small jigs and weightless soft plastics into tight windows. This allows anglers to accurately target overhanging cover with ease and efficiency, traditionally reserved for ultralight spinning gear.

Built on the LEVANTE X-Graphite System, the BFS spec-UL delivers Megabass performance and ample low-end power to handle unexpected big fish and light cover. Delivering a refined, ultralight bait finesse experience that is equally at home chasing bass from the bank or wading for trout in small rivers and streams, the BFS spec-UL is a true joy in hand.

 

F4-610LV JERKBAIT SPECIAL

Length: 6’10” | Lure capacity: ¼ – 3/4oz | Line capacity: 8-20lb | Taper: Regular | Power: Medium Light

Born from decades of tournament competition in the US and Japan, the JERKBAIT SPECIALis engineered to take Megabass’ legendary jerkbait series to new heights. The rod’s taper is slower than the previous generation and painstakingly fine-tuned to provide that elusive balance of forgiving cushion and responsive spring-back that enhances jerkbait rhythm and control.

Designed to bring jerkbaits like the VISION ONETEN to erratic-darting life, it converts slack line rod work into crisp, controlled movement. Careful guide sizing and placement enable dynamic adjustments to line tension to quickly adapt jerkbait action to changing bite conditions. 

The JERKBAIT SPECIAL’s torque-rich blank and forgiving bend is purpose-built for the VISION ONETEN Jr. all the way up to the VISION ONETEN+1. While it can handle more delicate action with the ONETEN+2 as well, aggressive action is better suited to the F5-72LV DIABLO-LV. The JERKBAIT SPECIAL is also well-suited to 3/8 oz to ½ oz treble-hook lures such as topwaters and crankbaits, adding versatility to an otherwise specialized performer.

 

F4.1/2-71LV RUN&GUNNING

Length: 7’1″ | Lure capacity: ¼ – 3/4oz | Line capacity: 8-20lb | Taper: Medium Fast | Power: Medium

A foundational model in the LEVANTE lineup, the RUN&GUNNING is designed for long-distance rapid-fire approaches with fast-moving lures.

Designed with the ideal tip stiffness to pop lures free from submerged vegetation and an unexpectedly deep and yielding bend under load, RUN&GUNNING is the modern answer to highly pressured weed and transition areas. Ideally suited to ¼ oz – 3/8 oz bladed jigs and swim jigs like the UOZE SWIMMER, 3/8 oz – ½ oz spinnerbaits like the SV-3, and shallow cranks like the S-CRANK 1.5, the RUN&GUNNING’s ability to absorb wild headshakes and seamlessly shift load keep hard-won bites pinned.

The X-Graphite’s improved recovery rate and extended casting range deliver a major advantage in long-distance approaches, allowing anglers to extract bites from large areas quickly and effectively. By eliminating the sluggishness often associated with longer rods, the RUN&GUNNING offers an intuitive blend of responsiveness, forgiveness, and control, making it ideal for aggressive run-and-gun strategies to dominate open water.

 

F5-72LV DIABLO-LV

Length: 7’2″ | Lure capacity: 3/8 – 3/4oz | Line capacity: 8-20lb | Taper: Medium Fast | Power: Medium

The DIABLO-LV is one of the most versatile rods in the LEVANTE lineup, with a dynamic X-Graphite blank that loads deeply for intuitive cast placement and ample torque to power fish around vegetation such as weeds and reeds. The DIABLO-LV is equally at home working topwaters like the DIAMANTE SONICSLIDE and POPMAX, pumping swim jigs like the UOZE SWIMMER, roll-casting spinnerbaits like the SV-3, ripping bladed jigs through vegetation, and deploying Texas rigs with exacting precision.

The blank’s medium fast taper has enough tip to impart bite-inducing action while maintaining the “give” required to safely secure trebles. This unique combination makes the DIABLO-LV an ideal companion to the JERKBAIT SPECIAL, stepping in when upgrading jerkbait hooks and line size around cover, working larger jerkbaits like the ITO SHINER or ONETEN MAX LBO, or when a more aggressive approach is needed with the VISION ONETEN+2.

The X-Graphite blank enhances sensitivity, comfort and performance during cover and bottom contact, while the 7’2” length enables long-distance casting and precise depth control. Heightened sensitivity allows anglers to detect bites instantly and unleash the DIABLO’s power, delivering fearsome hooksets and hauling fish from cover with ease.

 

F5.1/2-74LV SLEEPER CONTACT

Length: 7’4″ | Lure capacity: 3/8 – 1oz | Line capacity: 8-20lb | Taper: Fast | Power: Medium Heavy

The SLEEPER CONTACT is a bottom contact specialist built to maximize bite-inducing performance in the depths. Designed to crawl and delicately work lures such as the DARK SLEEPER and SLEEPER CRAW, rubber jigs, Texas rigs, free rigs, and high-density worms, it enhances precise navigation of underwater obstacles and heightens sensitivity.

The LEVANTE’s advanced X-Graphite System minimizes blank twist and enhances both cast distance and accuracy, allowing pinpoint power and precision. When faced with gnarly bottom structure, the SLEEPER CONTACT acts as an intuitive extension of the angler, delivering crisp handling and exacting control to coax the most challenging bites from the deep. 

Its 7’4” length delivers exceptional long-distance casting, expanding effective coverage beyond standard competition rods. The blank’s smooth load-transfer ability eliminates the abrupt shutoff of conventional fast tapers, revealing a surprisingly intuitive midpoint bend under full cast load and high retrieve resistances that is perfect for Japanese-style deep cranking. This unexpected ability is ideally suited to the iPX series, DEEP-X 300, and DEEP-SIX, where the faster tip comes into play to pop free of submerged vegetation without losing the deep, absorptive bend required in deep cranking situations.

F7-73LV PERFECT PITCH

Length: 7’3″ | Lure capacity: 3/8 – 1 1/4oz | Line capacity: 12-25lb | Taper: Fast | Power: Heavy | Reel Seat: ITS

A bottom contact powerhouse focused on techniques that demand uncompromising hookset performance, the PERFECT PITCH roams heavy cover in pursuit of lurking monsters. From football jigs and Texas rigs to bladed jigs, swim jigs like the UOZE SWIMMER, and frogs like BIG GABOT and GABARIN Jr, the F7-73LV excels in high-power, thick cover, and tournament pressure scenarios.

The responsive tip section and high-tension belly enabled by the blank’s X-Graphite construction deliver exquisite tip control and sensitivity, imparting surprisingly delicate action to frogs and jigs alike, and detecting even light bites. That feedback is immediately translated into decisive hooksets, driven home by a powerful butt section capable of taking the fight to big targets and dragging trophies from cover.

Despite its formidable power, PERFECT PITCH maintains superb reel-mounted balance, delivering light, agile handling for precision casting and knockout hooksets. Further, the rod’s silky load transfer avoids the jarring shut-off of conventional fast action rods, unlocking the unique combination of a deep, forgiving bend and an action-imparting tip to bring big walking topwaters like the 1.1/8 oz DOGMAX to life.

 

F7.1/2-76LV MAGDRAFT SPECIAL

Length: 7’6″ | Lure capacity: ¾ – 3oz | Line capacity: 12-30lb | Taper: Medium Fast | Power: Extra Heavy | Reel Seat: ITS

A swimbait rod with incredible versatility, the F7.1/2-76LV is purpose-built for the MAGDRAFT series. From the everyday 5 and 6-inch sizes to the trophy-targeting 7 and 8-inch models, the blank’s proprietary X-Graphite construction adapts to load and brings forth a seemingly endless reservoir of torque and power. This translates into stratospheric cast distance, unforgiving hooksets, and one-sided fights. The blank’s high torsional rigidity limits energy loss and blank wobble, also supporting crisp, high-precision rod work to deploy hollow-bodied frogs to the farthest reaches of thick mats or stir up a commotion in open water with big topwaters like the MEGADOG-X.

The MAGDRAFT SPECIAL fully exploits its massive torque to excel in power applications, including slow-rolling oversized spinnerbaits, super-deep cranking with the BIG-M 7.5, and technical manipulation of glide baits. Its smooth and supple blank absorbs unexpected, aggressive strikes, while its formidable lifting power overwhelms hard-won bites to bring trophies to the scales.

F9-711LV MEGALATHAN

Length: 7’11” | Lure capacity: 2-6oz | Line capacity: 20-40lb | Taper: Regular | Power: XX Heavy | Section: 2pc Grip Joint

MEGALATHAN is a formidable monster-hunter that delivers world-class torque and crushing power to dominate big bait applications.

Designed to cover the full spectrum of technical big-game applications—including glide baits like the iSLIDE 265R; oversized swimbaits like the MAGDRAFT 8in and 10in; pitching, flipping, and punching into heavy cover; and magnum bait games up to 6 oz— MEGALATHAN meets the demands of tomorrow’s trophy anglers. The X-Graphite blank is engineered with a regular taper to provide the right tip to impart glide action, and a linear and intuitive wellspring of power under load. These elements combine to deliver confident control across the trophy hunting arsenal to challenge kaiju-class targets. MEGALATHAN is equipped with robust double-footed and double-wrapped guides for maximum durability.

Despite its immense power, MEGALATHAN exhibits an exquisite balance that minimizes fatigue during consecutive days of relentless big-game fishing. A new-generation weapon that delivers monster-class power with surprising comfort and control.

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