I have to agree with an above post STH reels are as he said crap, Buy your reel from a fly reel manufacturer or a company with a long history of fly fishing gear.
the new loomis reels as another poster pointed out are very nice. Tim brought us some of these reels to look at last summer i think they will be a great reel for the money. Again on the sth our shop had 10 of them or so we used for casting demos they ALL had problems