"So no more colourised "glamour" shots of the thousand dollar reel and hand made rod with a beached trout gasping for air laying in the dirt in front of it....? "
How is having a thousand dollar reel and a hand made rod relavent ?
Go for a Streamside over a bell ! I have the Streamside steelheader custom and the plain steelheader they are both pretty decent. I almost like them as much as my gloomis glx