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Thanks all! I ordered immediately. Special valentines gift to myself 😂

I wouldn’t spool loosely as this will typically cause backlash. I just got mine yesterday. Also looking for input. Send there isn’t any reviews on it yet. Google only provides purchase point links. Haven’t thrown anything yet but plan on doing so ASAP.

In regards to your recommendation, I may be too late to the game. Looks like the Ray’s Studio SV is only available for the larger 32 and 34mm strips like the steez, older alphas and zillion. The newer platforms (silver creek & Gekka) are only 28mm spools. I digress, as I stated I’m getting about 75m of length on the stock spool for Gekka which should give me roughly double my fighting distance before I get spooled. KKR should be here soon. I’ll let everyone know how it goes.

Not sure why I’m just getting notified of this response but thank you. I’ll have to check this out soon. I have a fixed inductor KKR coming to see if the dynamic inductor really makes that big of a distance. I might go ahead and try to find the Ray’s as well and decide which one I like better. Just wanted to add I do have Verivas #0.6 metered line and it’s actually closer to 75 meters of line that ends up being spooled. So I might even stick with stock 🤷‍♂️

First time posting. Wondering if anybody has experience with a good spool swap for the factory Gekkabijin spool. I’m not interested in RoRo because it’s a fixed inductor and I’d like to keep the dynamic one that comes stock. I’m also not really interested in throwing anything below 1/16 oz. Basically, I’m only looking to add line capacity and capability of stepping up my line size slightly, if needed. Seems weird to me that a real touted for its distance casting limits line capacity so much. I understand that over spooling my line cuts down on performance but again I’m looking for distance. I’ve easily casted 1/4 oz. Jigs and baits 30-40 yards and according to factory specs that leaves me around 10-20 yards before I get spooled. Current setup is the Gekka paired with a MegaBass Levante F2 (light) I enjoy catching brown trout, rainbow trout and of course large and small mouth bass. I feel that my Levante is the perfect balance of backbone and bend for multi species and while in current stock form the Gekka is good for stream casting I would feel better having more line capacity when I hit the lakes, especially since I take my son with me and when that happens we are isolated to bank beating. Thoughts?

I use 10# braid (Sufix 832) for standard guides and 8# of the same braid with micro guides (I love my megabass levante but they have the micro-ist of guides). I tie those to an 8# and 6# leader respectively (Sufix advanced fluoro leader). I use a modified Alberto knot, half hitch for the beginning instead of the traditional loop, this shows both tag ends to face away from the leader side of your line, thus less hang-ups on your outgoing cast. What I’ve found is this stuff is beyond tough enough. I’ve yanked lures out of vegetation with 10# no problem even tree branch cover. I also did not get line dig, you just need to be mindful of your spool and rod. Put your thumb on your spool to brace it if you’re pulling on say…a jig stuck under a rock. If you get super snagged or end up having to boat flip a lunker, grab the rod and line together and support them as one unit (really only applies to ultra light rods with 4# line and under…yes, there are people who use 2# fishing line). You should really be carrying a net just in case that double digit bass or 20+” rainbow pop up. Also you mentioned you may have gotten line dig after setting the hook? You might be over doing that. Typically with BFS you reel down and keep pressure, you really shouldn’t have to lean into anything. I stay within 1/16th to 3/8th oz. lures/baits (very rarely do I use 3/8s). I mention this because line diameter or pound test is proportionate to lure/bait size. Ever try to throw a 1/4 oz jig on 50# braid?…you can’t. The lie needs to pull the line, the line can’t push the lure. That being said I stay away from the 4# test mono bullcrap. To me the obsession with BFS ultra light is absurd. Nobody should be casting 1/32nd oz. lures unless you’re fly fishing and if that’s what you want to do go buy a fly rod 🤷‍♂️ BFS to me means multi species with one rod and reel and being able to adjust your lures. Today I caught a brown trout on a 1/16th oz. inline spinner. Tomorrow if I wanted to I could throw a 1/8th or 3/16 oz. Bitsy Bug jig and catch bass. That’s where the magic is.