ie no line twist, hand pulling of line, spinning jig underwater, loops coming off the spool, etc. Inline reels are much better than spinning reels for ice. You can fish any reel right out of the box, but personally if I can improve the performance 2x or more in some cases with little effort, why not? Even the top reels that you can buy won't have cold specific lubes in the bearings and moving parts. This will make your reel spin more effortlessly. Have fun and hope for a long and cold winterįor spinners I have a tuning regiment also of cleaning the main gear and using more cold friendly grease or thin oil. Post if this tune improves your reel and or productivity fishing. Flush the bearings and remove the mags if possible. I have never seen or taken apart a BB Ghost but I figure the instructions would be similar to the FF. I didn't do this but I bet the start up speed would be even better. If you are really into tuning, add some new hybrid ceramic bearings into the reel 5x9x3 orange seals. I am sure now with these improvement the sluggishness of the reel will be solved. flush bearings again with DNA for a very quick rinse (just a little dip to remove any excess 321)Īfter this I was getting 38-40 second of free spool, which is over twice as fast as stock. added one small drop of TSI-321, spin and let dry for 30 mins flush in denatured alcohol (DNA) 3-4 times (every flush change DNA) remove first bearing, bearing sleeve then second bearing remove hexigonal lock washer thing carefully (this is on the spool) plug up the hole from the outside with a piece of rubber, eva foam, etc. push out the mag adjustment knob from the screw side, out lift straight up carefully as there are two springs below to remove the mag mount place a screwdriver or something attracted to magnets, across the mount. you will see a screw among the magnets on the mag mount, unscrew it carefully. Removal of the mag is not permanent and you can easily reinstall if you want to in the future. It wasn't a big tangle, just a simple lift of the rod removed the slack in the line. What happened was the line instead of birds nesting like a bait caster, it formed a bow in between the front of the reel and the first guide. I then mounted the reel on a rod with a #4 Fiska, I let the line drop and jig hit the ground but didn't stop the reel. I spun the reel without the mag and it was getting 22 seconds free spool on average. Yes the reel will need to be managed more closely but the benefits will out weigh the effort to watch your reel a bit more. So some of you are thinking, oh no the reel will over run and it will be annoying. So I took the time to go through and flush the FF and see if i could improve the speed and free spool times. Both mag brakes were completely backed off and the lines were taped to the spool. My CGI was getting about 40 seconds of free spool and the FF 14 seconds on average. This season I did some very unscientific tests on the free spool times of the tuned CGI and the untuned FF. This was mainly because the startup and drop speed were much slower on the FF. And although the BB FF is a superior reel, FF trigger, better built, tighter tolerances and looks much better, I found myself always fishing the CGI. I didn't have time go through the FF before the season, so I fished the FF stock for the whole season. I tuned the CGI by flushing all the bearings and removing all the grease from the main gear then adding a thin coat of TSI-321 to everything. I had bought 2 new reels that I tested, the No.8 CGI and the BB FF. While we are waiting for the temps to drop I was going through my gear and reviewing from last year.
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