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?

The gekka was designed for very thin braid, hence the low capacity. Many have proclaimed that the ray's studio sv (dynamic inductor) is one of if not the best "power" bfs aftermarket spools for the gekka, I have one in my alphas 800 and love it. The following link is for a thread that talks about it  https://www.tackletour.net/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=89440&hilit=gekka

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 🤷‍♂️

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.

I have the kkr (fixed) for my alphas sv800 as well, the quality of the stock bearing in the one I got didn't seem great so I replaced it (and the reel plate bearing too) with some bfs roro's and it made a huge difference. Because of the nature of the fixed rotor and super free bearings it starts to get squirrely and hard to control at around 3/8oz and higher. The ray's sv is much more versatile and suits the selection of my lures better and handles a broader weight range, sounds crazy but with this spool it's almost like I have a psychic connection with the lure and how it casts, it does exactly what I want it to do, and I imagine it'll get even better once change out that stock bearing with a roro. YMMV I don't know if these experiences will transfer as we are talking about two different reels. The ray's for the gekka is still available, it's interchangeable with the alphas air, linked below.

 

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19 hours ago, As above, So Below said:

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.

You want the 28mm Ray's long cast spool with the SV brake linked above.  That spool in that reel is highly regarded as a great casting finesse bass reel. West Door is a reputable seller too.

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