You should start yourself a thread in the New Members Intro sub forum instead of on this thread. This stuff will get buried and forgotten. You could...
I hear you on all counts Rich, I need to find a guide from there who is dying for a trip in Alaska and try a trade. You still have the beat schedules...
This reel is better suited to trout rods, more specifically to single hand rods like 9 foot graphite or 8 foot bamboo rods. I suppose that if you had...