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An probably cast farther than DC reels.

Because it has very good reels for the price, under $100. There is no rocket science in noting this. What astonishes more is people pay more than $50,00 in crap reels like the New Caius, Bass Rise, Bass one and several others from Shimano. Or even more than $100 for a mediocre reel like Curado K. I love how people are very demanding over cheap chinese reels, but condescending over Shimano crap sold at premium prices. Concerning baitcasting reels, I have used all kind of cheap and premium JDM reels. The value for money in these cheap chinese reels is superb! My Tica Dolphins were superb Surfcasting reels, my favorite ones, even more than my beloved Shimano Ultegra Surf.

Read what I posted again. 40 ton mesh tubes are brittle because of the increase in carbon density. Decent rods fix the issue using high quality resin, allowing more flexing for the blanks.

Surely. Strangely i didn't get a notification for your quotation. Kyorim brand: K1, Carza, Big Mandarin and Long range. Purelure brand: Zana and Cedan series Tsurinoya brand: Dragon and Ranger series Kingdom Fishing Keel III Noeby A7 Sense These are the ones I know.

Actually, it's easy to make a new one.

Actually fishing against the current was a important motivation for japanese trout anglers to develop BFS. Spoons get a way more attractive swim when worked under baitcasting reels.

China actually makes some memorable reels, like the Okuma Komodo, a Banax design, used by 13 Fishing too. But it's in the rod scene that chinese gear humiliate most famous fishing brands, like daiwa and Shimano. You can get a BFS rod, with higher quality than a Zodias ''BFS'' by just U$100. The value for money is astonishing, since China fully mastered carbon mesh technologies. Concerning lower spool inertia, your concept is simplistic, if not mostly wrong. Inertia should be reduced, indeed, but the braking system needs to be capable of dealing with the increased spool spin. The same applies to bearing upgrades. Most of them are just ***, promoted with a lot of payola. Increased spinning by bearing upgrades don't increase long distance casting, since the increased spinning creates stronger braking action, in centrifugal or counter-emf braking systems. Shimano noted these points and created the FTB system, who allowed for a lighter spool weight, without compromising counter-emf induction. I have a Conquest 51 BFS custom with AMO/Momo Studio conversion kit. Ultra lightweight honeycomb spool and mag brakes. One hybrid ceramic bearing. I kept the stainless steel sideplate bearing, because it avoids the ceramic one over spinning, since the honeycomb spool hasn't enough mass to induce a counter-emf, for a efficient linear braking action.

I'm astonished over people saying they don't see advantages of BFS reels over spinning ones... Precision, higher retrieve ratio/ipt, better line slack control... The same reasons who instigated japanese trout anglers to modify old 1500/2500 abu reels to cast lighter lures, developing bfs itself. Landed this Giant Piraya Piranha two weeks ago, more than five minutes of an frenzied fight. Luckly my Kestrel Elite was filled with 100m of 8lb test braided line. The Kestrel peforms way better than my Curado BFS.

Peacock basses, Common and Fat Snooks, Giant Piranhas... The usual 2-7g.

As people said before, modulus is just one aspect of blank quality. A 40ton one is very brittle, if the carbon mesh was molded with cheap resin.

Never had any problem with it. I used the modified version, fishing with two passes in the mono line eyelet, since the common Albert tends to untie under extreme jerking.

A parabolic curving rod, 6.0 feet and up.

Do you want precise measurements? I can provide them. Adding reel seats happens in two situations, for baitcasting rods. Reel seats adapted to thinner blanks, without inserts, who gives direct contact to the blank, for your fingers. And reel seats who need inserts, a cheaper solution, taking away the sensibility aspect.

That's why I say outside extreme distance casting competition (think of Daiwa 7HT), bearings upgrades will give you no gain in long distances, or even worse, the opposite.

And yet you gave time to comment on it. Quite exquisite when words and actions are uncoordinated.

This don't make sense. Several high modulus carbon rods, still keep a reduced overall diameter, like the Major Craft Benkei and Speedstyle, World Shaula... Increase diameter to anchor reel seats is a way to make production easier and cheaper, avoiding the use of inserts.

That's the hard part. Seems like Shimano don't sell them.

Shimano black steel ones. The phosphate coating process is superb.

Makes sense to me.

I always use a fluorocarbon leader.

Peacock bass inhabits cover, Eichornia, Ceratophyllum, logs, rocks, mangrove roots, Mimosa roots (very spiny), and don't demand such heavier lines, except for the Amazon Giants, Pinima and Temensis.

That's what I said before. A dude was saying it was using such braid for bass because he is fishing in cover... I simply can't conceiving a bass needing the same kind of line used for Temensis Giant Peacock basses. Something just don't add up. Playing? Surely after removing the thick fat cover, LOL!

No. The first blue one is thicker because it is a H-power rod. It's just as thick as a bass fishing, evem bfs rod. The Rapala Gold (36ton) and the Saint Datsun (40ton) have better blanks, reflecting on their diameter and weight. The Shimano Compre has a very cheap blank, I suspect the same of the slx series, of lower quality than the older compre series (36ton).

For both BFS rods in the picture, the Hyper.ion (what bassresource has against this name), it show how it's 24ton blank diameter is larger than the 36ton one for the Rapala Gold II and the 40ton one for the Saint Datsun. It has the same diameter, slightly thinner than thw 24ton Shimano Compre. But it is way thinner than the one for the H-power Rapala TS2.

This need of power is very strange for me... So bass fishing needs more powerful rods than Peacock Bass fishing, known for fighting both hard and dirty? Someone quoted using 65lb or something like that for bass fishing in structures. This is way above what is used for giant Peacock bass fishing in Amazon. That's a pretty good point. Here I see these large diameter being used by a cheap local brand called Lumis rods. The thing who allows thinner blanks is a combination of intermediate to high tonnage carbon (36-40ton at least) blended with high-quality resin. That's strange, since the evolution of carbon mesh modules is what allowed thinner and lighter blanks, with the muscle carbon/36ton being the turning point in the matter. Would love to understand the reason behind it.