With in the next year I think I am going to purchase a twelve weight and ten weight for salt water. I only want to have to purchase one reel with an extra spool and was wondering what you guys/ girls thought of using a braided line such as power pro or suffix as backing. This way I could get a lot more backing on the twelve wieght spool and can get a reel that is sort of inbetween on sizes.

Second question is what reel I should get. I am currently looking at either a Ross Big Game 6 or 7, or a Lamson LiteSpeed 4. The LiteSpeed will save me a little money as I will probably be doing Salt Water every once in a great while (1 or 2 times a year, I live in Arizona). I will probably be going after Tarpon in Floridia, or be going over to San Diego. I also plan to use the 10wt incase I ever go to Alaska after Kings. Thank you for all your help ahead of time.

-Jason