Ultimate Cost No Object BFS reel for 1/32 or lighter lures?

[ultralight]

Continue to be curious about BFS though it's quite spendy to do right apparently.

Assuming cost no object and that one wants to cast 1/32nd oz (1 gram) or below, what would would be the ultimate BFS reel if:

a. Bone Stock

b. Willing to upgrade the spool?

Thanks in advance to you pros for comments...

[poisonokie]

Maybe with a trout blank rated down to zero or 1/64, some Hedgehog Air ceramic bearings and the least amount of braided line possible, an Alphas ASC could do 1/32nd. Mine casts the hell out of 2.3g aerodynamic spoons on an UL bass rod with stock bearings (which seem to be very, very good out of the box) and ~40m 6# Invizx, but I tried one of those rebel micro craws with the single barbless hook and failed miserably.

[ss30378]

The rod will have to be built off a trout or fly blank to load at all with 1g lures regardless so assuming you have that.

Stock reel: air stream custom or 16 aldebaran bfs or abu bf8

Modified reel: 16 aldebaran bfs with avail trout spool (4.75g with bearing) along with the additional magnet kit that is needed to go with the spool.

[Hobie-Wan Kenobi]

The rod will have to be built off a trout or fly blank to load at all with 1g lures regardless so assuming you have that.


Modified reel: 16 aldebaran bfs with avail trout spool (4.75g with bearing) along with the additional magnet kit that is needed to go with the spool.

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[ultralight]

Thanks everyone! Helpful to know where the 'bleedin edge' is.

You mean that avail trout spool weighs only 4.75 grams WITH the bearings? What is that spool without bearings then? (Doing a search online, I thought sellers are listing that at 7.5 grams so I must not be looking at the right spool. That spool has more holes than material....

And what would be the stock BF8 spool be WITH bearings.

if I am understanding it correctly, then 4.75 grams is just crazy!! Some of your UL lures weigh a lot more than that! Wow.

[Hobie-Wan Kenobi]

Thanks everyone! Helpful to know where the 'bleedin edge' is.

You mean that avail trout spool weighs only 4.75 grams WITH the bearings? What is that spool without bearings then? (Doing a search online, I thought sellers are listing that at 7.5 grams so I must not be looking at the right spool. That spool has more holes than material....

And what would be the stock BF8 spool be WITH bearings.

if I am understanding it correctly, then 4.75 grams is just crazy!! Some of your UL lures weigh a lot more than that! Wow.

The Avail spool is the 16ALD15 spool. It has no holes

[Edward78]

I have the Avail spool on the way and just got the Kuying Teton TTC-522SUL rod and its a noodle and loads with the rod weight alone. So we will see how it all comes together

Edward

[ss30378]

Thanks everyone! Helpful to know where the 'bleedin edge' is.

You mean that avail trout spool weighs only 4.75 grams WITH the bearings? What is that spool without bearings then? (Doing a search online, I thought sellers are listing that at 7.5 grams so I must not be looking at the right spool. That spool has more holes than material....

And what would be the stock BF8 spool be WITH bearings.

if I am understanding it correctly, then 4.75 grams is just crazy!! Some of your UL lures weigh a lot more than that! Wow.

Yes 4.75g with bearing on it. The stock bf8 spool weighs 7.5g with the factory bearing. The avail spool has no holes, as stated its the 16ALD15 spool.

[ultralight]

Thanks. That does sound amazing.

[Hobie-Wan Kenobi]

I was even thinking of drilling holes in it

[ultralight]

I was wondering about that too.... gotta be a reason why they don't. perhaps the metal is far too thin? Or perhaps that would work if one is using 2lbs test and loading it to half the capacity....