I need advice from the salt Captains out there on salty reels for say 8-10 wt. one hand rods, 9wt. being the rod I have now. It would be nice if the recommendations were for popular reels priced at say $300 or under and that are easy to buy parts/get service for and I suppose that have really good warranties.

I've looked around the net at a few and I'm not finding enough specific info so I thought I'd just go here and ask those that use them most to find out what's the best way to go/best bang for the buck. Target fish would be everything on the east coast that are typically fly fished for while wading or not far offshore in smaller vessels like PWC.

I'm interested in reels that stand up to salt the best and this may give smiles and I hope it does, but is there a salt water specific fly reel out there that doesn't require washing off after each trip or am I dreaming?

Cheers,

MontanaMoose