BFS reel and trotting

[Rupert Drury]

This is my first post on this forum. I’ve gleaned lots of great info so I thought I would share my latest experiment reel wise.

I have a few centre pin reels,closed face and fixed spools, but it occurred to me that a BFS reel might trot a float quite well.

As an experiment I purchased a not terribly expensive one just to see how it went and I have to say I think I’ll be using it a lot more for trotting.

The reel is designed to cast 2grams upwards and the light weight spool takes nothing to set it spinning. Being a multiplier there is no line twist and the control you have on the spool is perfect. It’s a light weight and fast retrieve reel. The spool can be tensioned to slow things right down,but I just used my thumb. The spool starts spinning of its own accord as soon as the flioat starts to trot down the swim.

I matched the reel to a team Daiwa 13ft SR3 power float rod, which is rated for up to 8lb line. I managed a small barbel this evening, my smallest of the season in fact, but big enough to test the theory of using a BFS reel for trotting.

I’ll definately be using it again as the initial feel was brilliant.

 

[Rhys Perry]

Good idea!
I'm sure I have a small multiplier gathering dust somewhere.

 

[Richard Isaacs]

Love it. Nice post.

 

[Rupert Drury]

Good idea!
I'm sure I have a small multiplier gathering dust somewhere.

I have a few small multipliers - Abu 4, 5 and 6 series (all left hookers) but the spools on these are a lot heavier than on a BFS reel and take more inertia to get them spinning initially. I think the spool on this one weights around 10g and is heavily ported to keep weight to a minimum.

 

[Stephen Crowhurst]

The brilliant thing about BFS is the way you can flick a bait with pin point accuracy, you just can’t stop the rig the same way with a fixed spool.

 

[Neil Blood]

I love my BFS reels for Perch fishing with small jigs and chebs; however although I can see it working as you describe, I just love trotting with one of my centrepin reels, which you can’t beat

 

[Andrew Burt]

Shimano in Italy used to sell small multipliers for bolo fishing, I can see how well they might work but they didn't seem to catch on and they do not make them anymore.

 

[Rupert Drury]

I love my BFS reels for Perch fishing with small jigs and chebs; however although I can see it working as you describe, I just love trotting with one of my centrepin reels, which you can’t beat

I’d be really interested in your feedback with how you feel your bfs reel works for trotting if you’d have a session with it?

 

[Rupert Drury]

I love my BFS reels for Perch fishing with small jigs and chebs; however although I can see it working as you describe, I just love trotting with one of my centrepin reels, which you can’t beat

I’d be really interested in your feedback with how you feel your bfs reel works for trotting if you’d have a session with it?