Nothing wrong with the Tekota 300, 500, and 600 LC's that I own and use. Replace the drag washers with some of the carbon fiber washers from smoothdrag.com and you're set to go.

Either a 300 or 500LC works fine in the sound.....with the 500 almost being overkill on line capacity.

300's make for really good mooching reels in the sound. 500's for the DR gear. 600's for places like Craig/Westport (or any open ocean) where you might hook a Nookasuarus!

Nothing cooler than looking at the fish finder, seeing a fish at depth X....then running a herring down to that depth only to get bit about a second later.