I would trade both in on a Big Chief smoker. It's large enough to smoke an entire side (fillet) of salmon or steelhead. I owned and used a Little Chief for close to 10 years and now I've had my Big Chief for about 8 years and I'll never go back to the Little Chief. More than 50% of the time I'm smoking the entire side of a 5-8lb fish that fits nicely in the Big Chief if you go diagonally with the whole fillet using an entire rack. With the Little Chief you don't have the entire fillet option unless you're doing trout. The Big Chief also has about double the capacity which is nice when you have a bounty of fish to smoke through. If you stay with the Little Chief I prefer the top loader.