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Abrasion resistance and to avoid the line being tangled in the treble hooks. For my finesse braids, these are a ultra-must-have.

I think you nailed it. Control by angular momentum exchange by braking blocks, in a situation where the speed is almost constant. MagV is more of a short-cast/pitchingish system. Since you quoted the Pixy series, what could you tell me about the PX68 MagZ finesse tuned? I'm curious about it, since it's rampless, but spring-loaded, by a bigger spring, almost the diameter of the spool. Maybe a Magforce Air precursor?

And yet it operated without attrition. Are you saying the SPR wasn't good enough over its proposal? It lasted only 2 years because of it very much specific niche, just like the Cardiff 50 DC series.

You need to tell that to Daiwa and their SPR series wich is made to brake without attrition. Everything depends on the spool speed and position of the blocks. VBS and the common SVS are quite default centrifugal brakes, nothing new in the front. Superb! Nipponic trout anglers and swedish guys had round profile reels capable of casting lures under 4g in the mid 60's. Actually japanese trout angling is where BFS comes from.

Usually I use a plastic fish gripper, after they give up. Butterfly net analogs are useless. The giant ones never give my any trouble over bittes, but the smaller white ones (Serrasalmus brandti), are frenetic fishes. For the first time, 1.5 month one white piranha struck my pointing finger fingerprint region, almost bitting it off. Astonishingly, the skin didn't fell off and i got my fingerprint and all info for it back, LOL! Thank you people for the reception. Actually Oscars and consummated fighters and in a testimony of they toughness and resilience, they outfight Peacock basses twice their size. Their fighting capabilities are really underrated, since they rarely go over 2lb.

Less brake than non-linear depends on the spool build, with or without inductor plate or anything like that. Continuous friction during the cast is really unlikely, maybe on IVCBII or SVS-inifity-like brakes where the ceramic blocks are tangential to the spool border. VBS-like blocks, like these on the old Abu and Calcutta reels acts in attrition only at very high spinning, in the beginning in the cast. After that, they provide braking by angular momentum only, without attrition to the braking plate. Momentum starts spool spinning and by consequence, the brake blocks. It all rely in the applied froce and spool mass/inertia.

Hello fellow anglers. I'm Victor, a.k.a Pescador do Sertão (Brazilian Outback Angler, free translation). I'm a novice kayak fishing angler, doing BFS almost exclusively in the past 2 years. My favorite species are the Peacock Cichlid (Kelberi Cichlid), Common and Fat snook, Giant Red Piranhas and Trahiras. I came from a sucessful competitive surfcasting and started baitcasting in 2018.

Almost done with the old 51-sized round reels from Shimano. My first centrifugal brake BFS reel. Will use it with aerodynamic lures like stick and twich baits.

What a high-level discussion, really appreciate the data given here. My two cents again. Overall, linear mag and it's variations like the FTB are better in most situations, including long casting. In a zero-adjusted reel, with spool weight around 10g, you can have really good casting. Thanks to the proportional nature of the counter-emf in the spool. That last bit of control in the end of that extreme long cast is just astonishing. In this case thumbing isn't even a necessity. The Tatula 100 ''BFS'' spool actually turns the reel into a full-fledged long caster instead of a BFS-friendly reel. The Abu Garcia Revo EXD is a perfect example of a linear mag long caster. Cal ''Payola'' TT did a review about it, a pathetic one, just forget about it. The reel was intentionally set incorrectly. Abu Garcia payola was lacking in the day. Actually the delay in the Magforce Air braking inductor activation works against lighter lures, with bad aerodynamics, around 2-3g. That's why Daiwa opted for linear mag in the ASC series. Concerning the centrifugal braking, I see a lot of people downplaying angular momentum, no-attriction braking and the composition for the braking blocks. Doyo uses ceramic blocks on it's premium Abu reels (IVCB-II), that behave astonisngly smooth. Heavier lures ask for centrifugal braking, even more so, stick baits and pencils overrall. Too much high-spinning. Daiwa HLC is just a magforce with a lighter inductor, harder to activate than the common Z and V incarnations. Just a free-spinning promoter.

I disagree. Lighter lures can create momentum to start centrifugal braking, usually by moving the blocks out of the spool axis, without attriction with the braking plate, shifting angular momentum. This is the physics behind the Pixy SPR centrifugal brakes, and works for the older VBS-like brakes from Abu and Shimano.

PS: Centrifugal braking only acts in the highest spinning, so in most cases you don't have any braking action in the end of the cast. Thats good for aerodynamic lures, like stickbait and pencils overall, who have a slower deceleration by wind resistance.

Linear magnetic braking systema are just as simple as efficient. The proportional nature (spool spin x braking force) of magnetic braking, based on the counter-EMF inducted the aluminium spool, gives us control over all the cast.