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Every year I put together little outfits for the BoyScouts and some of the seniors up here. Most any of the click and pawl reels, simple and in new or near new shape qualify, Mostly american made Martins, Shakespeares and a few others. Nothing fancy, mostly under $30 including the shipping. I put em on equally low cost rods and outfit the scouts with outfits in the 5-6wt glass, they have a ball on the lake frontage for panfish, bass and a few trout. The Seniors get some nice 6-7wts, mostly 7wts, same panfish on the lake but more directed for some of our abundent population of LMB.
I like to remember the spool is for containing and respooling the line, its up to the fisherman to creat the proper resistance to the running fish. I love fishing the panfish here and the winter trout with my graphite ultra lights, my primary reels are Martin 61s on some of the highest end UL rods you can buy, why the lack of drag to snap my 1# and 2# tippets.
As Lee Wulff said, the reel is for line storage, weither its on the rod or in your pocket.
I know we all have fancy reels, I do too, but when I drag out the Orvis 1wt its with a Martin 61
Most of our best reels admit it, are eye candy, mens jewelry, I will. We like em so we have em. Between the eye candy and the plain jane reels are a multitude of good low cost reels. I love the import Hardy clones, I love them on 5-7wt rods, very cost efficent, but its not because of any other reason than I can control their drag settings to near nothing and depend on their construction. Some are very very well made and many have palming spools. Just my thoughts,
Richard