Oh yeah you can't go wrong with a SA System 2 reel. There relatively cheap and I've never had one break on me. The best reel for the money imho.
For flies I like big streamers for salmon I like black and purple and always have some chartruese. I like zonker style flies and spey style flies tied big with lots of movement.
For steelies early on I use the same streamers I use for salmon then when they make there way further up river I'll switch over to egg flies and when it gets to be winter time I go to standard hares ears in black, olive and tan. Throw in a couple of green caddis pupa and you pretty much have it covered. Sizes from 6 to 12. Some people go smaller than that but I don't feel the need to. You can get carried away with a ton of flies but almost all the fish I catch are caught on those flies, but I guess you can never have to many flies.
Chris

[This message has been edited by Turk (edited 19 July 2006).]