Shimano and Daiwa DON'T want you to know this:The Untold Truth of Baitcaster Spool Weight Explained 

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Thanks, glad you like it! I wonder how many fishing lovers are there in the sci/eng/tech community, will be fun to have a nerdy fishing derby or something lol.

Thanks for the kind words. I'll try keeping the nerdy part for sure. Tight lines!

Thank you! Will do!

Awesome sir! I'll keep it coming.

Great point! I have not tested yet. By thinking alone, I believe mono and braided line tend to absorb water, FC is the least. Braided line is a little different, the coating and the way it was weaved together would likely have an impact on this. There are water caught on line and water absorbed into the line material, during casting, a lot of the water "caught on line" are thrown out due to centrifugal impact. I can do a simple weight test buy wiping off the superficial water of the line and then weigh the spool and compare. That will be quite interesting for another episode!

I just started this channel not long ago and I am lazy (aka always fishing so no time...). Anyway, agree with the fisherman catcher. If no one uses a bait or a piece of tackle, it will never be a great popular one...

@@BassniperEng l’m loving what I see so far. Can’t wait to see where your channel goes from here. Just don’t let it cut into your fishing too much. 🤣

Glad you like it 🎣

Fishing season started in the Northeast of the States...I'll soon start to do vid editing on the boat lol Glad you like it. Tight lines!

@@BassniperEng I'm in Southern Québec and in the same situation. Soon! 🎣

Will do. Here is the Japanese website I use: www.hedgehog-studio.co.jp I am not associated with them by any means, just like their service. Very fast shipping (2 days to east coast where I am at). Problem is they provide too many choices...from custom parts to grease/oil to specialty tools. Frankly I need to stay away from that site lol Enjoy 🐟

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad it was helpful!

Our world is fishy lol 🐟🐟🐟

You're so welcome! And thanks for the feedback. I'm glad I asked, otherwise I would never thought folks have had enough unboxing vids lol

haha!!! That serves one of my purpose lol money cannot buy happiness, but can buy a lot fishing tackle, which is essentially the same thing.

Thank you sir! No you might be a C student but only because physics was not taught in the context of fishing :-) In general, F mode (for fluorocarbon) puts out the most braking force (or the brake works more time during the cast), N (monofilament, nylon line) second, P (PE, braided) the least. When using full capacity of spool (full spool of same line) it is recommended to choose the modes based on line type, if using backing for fluorocarbon or half spool, then F mode could sometimes be too much, and it is ok to use other modes. Unfortunately DC brakes do not fully librate our thumbs, so the finger brake is still needed here and there.

Thanks for the support!

Awesome, thank you bro! Yes I will do an in-depth vid for magnetic brake, and centrifugal.

@@BassniperEng I look forward to them! I think most folks have a general understanding of why and how spools and braking systems work but your in depth style and explanation is very straight forward and easy to digest. Keep up the great content! Cheers my friend!

Thanks for the feedback. These are all great questions. Q1: subject to opinions so everyone has his/her own answer. Q2: Yes, but a lot of them provides marginal improvements, which I will explain in future videos. Q3: big brands $100 reels definitely yes! For instance the SLX and SLX MGL series, IMO is close to the Core Mg series sold a decade ago at $350 at that time. They recycle techs and molds etc. Q4: depend on brand. There are all of a sudden a lot of brands came out with reels, brands that had no business in fishing reel. This is not something you can just build the manufacture infrastructure over night and have a dozen models on the market the next day. So... Q5: Had a vid posted a year ago on my other channel, I used overlay vid editing to show what action and power is really about. I'll try to redo an English version.

@BassniperEng I was just trying to throw ideas your way. I'm in a decent place with my reels, I'm always open to learn more though. The rod question is due to so many companies not following any real standard. I can match specs between 2 rods, action and power, and the spec for line and lure weight is vastly different. I have a 7'8 rod good for 1/2 - 5oz lures, that with same power, action and length in another company that can't go over 1.5oz lure.

When talking about different line type and its impact on spool inertia, what really matters is the density. Same type of material generally have same (or very similar) density. When using braided line, different diameter might result in some packing difference (i.e. thinner the braided line the tighter it usually packs onto the spool, thus resulting in slightly higher density than using larger diameter braid), but the weight difference caused by this type of packing is usually small, plus, when putting backing on deeper spools for braided line, usually we want to pack it tight anyways otherwise the thin braided line likes to dig into the spool. So I personally would just go ahead and use straight thin braided line, if I have to. That being said, when using very thin braided line, shallow spool is handy because it avoids the thick "backing" layers and thus avoids the digging issue. Hope this helps.

@@BassniperEng Big thanx for Your answer! Maybe I described it wrong (I'm from Germany, so my english isn't that good ;-). With diameter I meant the diameter of the spool including the line - having a nearly completely filled spool (with backing braid) or a spool with just 100 metres of thin braid (and therefore a small diameter of the spool including the thin braid). With the smaller diameter »spool/thin braid« the line is harder to be pulled out (started to be pulled out) because of the smaller lever. But the overall weight (spool / thin braid) is lesser than using the same spool with backing line and filled to the top. There the lever is longer and therefore the line can be started easier - but the overall weight of the spool + backing line + thin line are higher. So what is better for casting (with / or without backing line)? 🤔

Got it. Yes the diameter part will be discussed in the next video. It is a tricky one, for the two spools you are comparing, with the increment of diameter comes the weight as well. I'll do more detail in the next video but essentially the casting process is an energy transfer process, where the lure's initial kinetic energy and the rod's potential energy from bending is transferred into lure's new kinetic energy and the spool's rotational kinetic energy and heat caused by all the frictions etc. What we fisherman really care about is the lure's new kinetic energy (if say we want to achieve longer casts), the less energy lost on the spool and friction, the better. In the case of casting super aerodynamic (very low air resistance) lure using super thin braided line (low friction with guides and reel's level wind), an equation can be derived based on the conservation of energy. In that equation, the mass of the spool, the relative radius difference due to different amount of line, and lure weight are all present to determine the residual kinetic energy in the lure after the spool reaches the same linear velocity as the lure. It is a complicated relation and needs actual number to solve, but, an easier way is, to test, which is what I am going to do in the next video.

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What kind of fishing are you planning to use these reels? The 24 Met DC comes with some more "responsive" or accurate DC brake, plus the external dial for main modes and MGLIII spool. And the spool is slightly smaller than Scorpion, narrower too. I'd expect the casting performance of Met DC to be quite good, and should suit low weight lure. The biggest practical part of the DC for me is to be able to cast directly into the wind. If I was to choose, I'd go Scorpion DC if I throw relatively heavy stuff more often, Metanium DC if going after things less than 1/4 oz more often. Metanium does weight about 1.5 oz less than Scorpion.

This reel is mainly for bank pond/lake bass fishing. What I should have asked was about the 15 Met DC compared to the 22 SLX DC XT. I watch a lot of fishing videos and I must say, you have my respect on reviews. Thank you so much for your knowledge.

haha thanks for sub, and the feedback. I did not expect folks are having enough unboxing vids lol

Reduce the total weight of spool generally helps with casting performance, but again the inertia is also dependent on the mass distribution (or effective radius k), the mass distribution of the spool is the one in a black box, will need to test and find out. I was not aware that amazon sells spools. Gonna take a look. Thanks for the heads up.

LOL I'll keep making these vids.

還是需要搞怪一下，實在忍不住🤣

對了，中文版的3年前在大漁上發過，比較長，一共三個部分沒有分開，結果就講了將近1小時。

@@BassniperEng英文不好 哈哈 “你懂我的芯”那集我看了應該有至少五次以上😂

Yes they are!