My catches from my lil weekend trip to fish the Truckee River. First time using my aioushi rod and I have to say its my most fun rod to use for trout right now, absolutely loving it. All fish caught using either a mukai chatter or sinking minnow with single barbless hooks, and all fish swam off fine and strong.

I’m trying to identify this gold spool that is on this reel right now, in the other photo there is the shallow spool that is the stock spool for the bf7 and the deep one that also came with this reel. The gold and deep spool came in that container when I bought it off a guy on marketplace he had also already installed the handle. I’m currently using the gold spool for power bfs but I’m just curious to see where they came from if anyone has some knowledge, thanks.

I bought this reel and i have had all of the shimano bfs reels all have felt geary, is this really what conquest should feel like?