Trutta Perfetta Titanium

I had a much closer look at the Trutta tonight, and apart from it being a very beautiful reel, there’s no doubt it’s very precisely machined and incredibly well finished.
Though not everyone’s cup of tea, I really love the look of titanium, especially an all titanium reel. Apart from the material being quite hard and more resistant to dings and scratches, the reel can be buffed back up again to remove them; I have a polishing machine/kit, with various mops and pastes when my titanium/in-the-white reels get too grubby.
The reel has a really nice, subtle ingoing click and a really great loud outgoing click/howl! It has a nice smooth draw on line out (understandably not as smooth as the Noel which has a Bogdan styled drum drag but nonetheless very smooth for a C&P). I like that it has a palming rim, and for this reel anyway, I don’t have to jam my fingers into the cage for braking! I think it will be perfect for some big beast, like an Icelandic trout or seatrout streaking off back to the sea! Hopefully I’ll be able to test that theory!
I put an old 4wt line on the reel, I think a Rio Selective Tout, with no backing and it came up to 6.7oz, I’m sure the 50yds or so of backing will bring it up to 7oz or so. For the 8’5″ JMR Light Trout 4.5wt rod, it was still slightly tip heavy, but I’m sure the backing will make it a perfectly balanced match, not that slight tip-heaviness would make much or any great difference anyway.
I’m very much looking forward to season opening and putting this reel through its paces.