I can get away with a bit heavier line and still be very sensitive with a baitcaster over a spinning reel. Light bites and pickups are transmitted better. You can gain a lot more feel and sensitivity by palming a baitcaster as opposed to holding the stem of a spinning reel. Spinning reels inherently are not terribly sensitive compared to baitcasters. While spinning rods are great and can be very sensitive. So you can get a 1/32 and 1/64-ounce jig out there with the right BFS reel and a little lighter rod. With BFS you can still use 4-8 pound lines or braids and there is no spool friction like with a spinning reel. You have to get into that ultralight on a spinning setup with like 2-4 pound lines. When you start getting to that 1 gram weight (1/28th ounce), it gets pretty tough to throw a lure on bass gear rods of any kind.
You have to keep going down in line size and get lighter and lighter in rods to throw smaller lighter lures. Spinning reels have limitations when it comes to super light lures. The other question we get a lot is why a baitcaster instead of a spinning reel for finesse applications. It’s not quite Daiwa Air Stream or Shimano Aldebaran BFS casting smoothness and startup inertia on the bottom of the lure weight spectrum, but it’s lighter than both those reels.īut the startup inertia on the Custom Lite SS is a lot less than a conventional baitcaster, so it handles most light bass lures for sure. But this reel is a lot smoother and lighter than many of the BFS reels on the market.
It’s the same carbon drag in their conventional Custom Lite reel. It doesn’t have the clicker drag most BFS reels are known for. But it has most of a true BFS reel performance. They took their custom lite baitcaster, upgraded a few things, added a shallow spool but it shares most of the same components as a conventional baitcaster with a shallow 30mm spool. The reason I refer to the Lew’s Custom Lite Shallow Spool baitcaster as a finesse baitcaster and not a Bait Finesse System reel is because it’s a hybrid in my mind. Yes and no would be my short answer to the question on if this is a true BFS reel.
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