Storlaks,
As anyone who has been reading these forums for the last year knows, I love my 1611 T&T and its fast but progressive action. Glad to hear you got one. I bought mine 7 years ago and have never regretted purchasing it; I use no other rod for chum salmon, winter steelhead, and chinook salmon. I have been fishing mine exlusively since November with the 10/11 GrandSpey and have found this to be a wonderful combination of line and rod. And I fish folowing, type 3, type 6, type 8, and 11 feet of 700 gr. SA Deep Water Express tips with this rod and line.
I have mine mounted on a Redington 13/14 because it is a line that just eats of up capacity in a hurry. You need a reel that is rated for a 14 wt. line and 350+ yards of 30lb backing to hold the 10/11 GrandSpey and a decent amount of backing.
An additional benefit to using the very large reels needed to hold the 10/11 GrandSpey is the added weight of the big reels ballance the rod very nicely and actually causes the rod to feel lighter in the hand.