PUSHING BFS LIMITS!!! HiStar Aurora AIR... EXTREME BAIT FINESSE REEL 

I have one and mine is good. Not much tolerances. Not as smooth as the aurora bfs but cast way better. The aurora air cast as good as the aldebaran bfs or even better in my opinion. It cast really far with kastmaster. I haven’t throw trout magnet yet but I’m sure it’s capable of it. I threw 1/32 oz jighead with a 2 inch crappie jig. It cast just way too good that’s all I gotta say.

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The majority of fishing tackle including rods and reels on earth come from a handful of factories in Weihai china. Not surprising that the quality would continue to improve on odm brands as they learn and improve their production from making reels to spec from the nicer company's reels.

I really like my Histar. IT casts a 2.5 grm lure about 56 turns . Not sure how far that is , but looks like a far distance . I tried a heavier lure around 5 grams and it wasn't a good for some reason . i was using 8lb Braid and a cheap baitcaster that casts between 1 gram and 5 gram . Great video by the way

Hope to see you do a light lure test and bearings upgrade options for this reel.

I have a Histar travel rod is a very nice. The rod is beautiful.

I have the (2) New Daiwa Tatula BF70 & Daiwa PX BF70. Both are made for USA market models. I also have Kastking Zephyr & Kestrel Elite, so no more having to order overseas for quality BFS reels... Reviews are underway... 💯

I bought this reel when it first came out because I was curious about the brake system on it. Mine has the same issue with the handle tolerances and the drag isn't the smoothest. What I can say about it is on the #1 brake setting and about 3 on the dial it will launch 1.5 gram lures and I am sure will handle much lighter stuff as well. I'll be looking forward to seeing how it casts in your test video as well.

Yeah mine handle rocking too. Apparently the shaft bearing hole on the side case is way bigger. What I did was super glue the hole wall very thin layer by layer till the bearing fit snug. I also swop out the nylon washer right under the main gear to a 1mm carbon washer. Knobs bushings swop to bearings. Brake side cover under the bearing I reshim till the spool is centered. Lots of work on it

No issues with the arm rocking on my Aurora Air.

@THEREELTEST If you had to choose between the Aurora Air, Soloking Acura (upgraded with bearings) and the DW Ultra, wich one would you pick up ? Or perhaps you have better options ? I'm looking for my first BFS combo 😁

The brake dial going up in number while going down in brake force is confusing as hell til you realize they use it to indicate casting distance, the higher the number the further the cast. There's quite a few Chinese reels like that, and some "insta" brands like Six Gill

I just picked up a histar assassins 4 piece travel rod and it's really nice! Got a cu double after watching a bunch of your videos and some from other channels and paired it with a seasir mansory carbon bfs reel but am yet to test it. All up $200nzd on some good discounts

New bfs reel 104g, histar GIU year of dragon limited edition hope you review this one. And they have a GIU 99g!

Are you going to do the trout magnet 1 gm feoikd test also

Cool video, how many bearings this lure

My Aurora Air has the same wiggly handel.

BTW, I got it for only US$28.60.

Sembo no longer available because of spool tension knobs threads

I like this one also, will you check out the DMK mystical with aluminum frame? keep up good work.

I've got my Aurora Air just few minutes ago. Very first impression: Light and cheap, quality weighs more. Am I right? Maybe not since I have not had this reel on the water yet. We'll see. I've got to give this reel a chance to proof me wrong. As greasy as it is, it will barely work bfs-wise. I need to clean the bearings first and grease them up way less.

thanks for the review .

Will you ever do spinning reels, or perhaps they are not youe forte

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The Aurora Air unfortunately has a number of issues on many/most reels: 1. The main shaft isn't properly shimmed, so the handle has in and out play. 2. The drag star spring is weak, so that tends to flop around a bit. Doesn't affect the setting, just irritating. 3. The main shaft hole in the handle is oversized, so the handle doesn't sit flush against it. 4. Some reels have shimming issues on the worm shaft, which affects line lay. That's the observations out of about 20-30 reels in a Facebook group I'm in. One guy even fixed all issues his had and it improved a lot, but you need time, patience, tools and skill for all that. So unless you're a tinkerer with a well stocked toolkit, you won't get all those done.

The Thornsline Sembo was pulled due to QC issues and they'll bring an overhaul back afaik. Plus there's another reel in this sub 120g group. Taigek sells an all white reel that is sub 120g.