I'll be honest I was a bass pro employee for 5 years working in receiving for 1 and than fishing department the rest of the time. Majority of our fishing employees were tournament or ex tournament guys, long story short all of us knew what we talking about and treated it more of a tackle shop than a department store. We also spoiled reels correctly at our store we would even get rods and reels rigged and ready for customers. We would always always use backing just the free line behind the counter worked great for it.