Anyone of you tried this shallow spool reel for pitching and flipping for BFS use?

I tried it for salt ML niche. Spool bearing swap to Roro.  

PE#1.2 braid

 

The centrifugal brake always cost spool speed and distance with light lures.  

My mag-brake Super Duty G always out-cast it with 1/8 oz

The deep spool Super Duty cast 1/8 oz at least 20% farther.  

  

Sold all my centrifugal-brake Lew's reels, bought Daiwas with Roro-X and Ray's Studio spools - no need to ever look back, though I still like my SDs.  

 

I used this reel last year.   I ended up not really liking it.  The Daiwa Tatula SV is waaaaay better at managing line while skipping and pitching.   I really like Lews reels, this one just didn’t work nearly as well as the Daiwa SV.

 

Going to be my next purchase so I can't comment on my opinion yet. I did see a guy on you tube using it for bfs and he loved it. He was having no issues with lite lures.i guess I'll know better when I finally buy one.

I think it would be great for lighter baits on braid making hard, high release point bomb casts.  That spool looks to be on the thicker side and heavy.  Not a bad thing because shallow heavy spools with centrifugal brakes can really sling baits out there.  If I had to guess the spool was designed for rock fish and jigging with 20 lbs braid.  Lews probably saw it in a doyo catalog and selected that spool or spool and reel as a pitching reel.  If I had one I would absolutely spool it with 20 lb braid to leader or 10 lbs flouro and bomb 1/4 or 3/8 oz baits on open water.  Cranks, jerkbaits, flukes ect with it. 

8 minutes ago, Tatulatard said:

That spool looks to be on the thicker side and heavy. 

10 grams

The thing I do like about the reel is that you are putting very little line on because of the big spool.  That also has its pros and cons though.  It works for me as I carry 20+ rods so that reel is used strictly for pitching.   Daiwa SV’s are used for skipping.  

I bought the Lews Pro SP for pitching and skipping as it was intended for, but didn't like the centrifugal brakes for those techniques.

 

Tried it for BFS on a Dobyns SUF740c and it did pretty well, but decided to try a Ray's BFS spool in a Tatula SV though and liked it better,.... so I sold the Lews.

I’ve had 2 of them. I feel Tatula SV is way better for skipping and pitching. With that said, I suck at skipping.

 

Where I really liked these was light baits. Spooled them with 8-10# fluoro and they rocked light baits.