Kev, the reel was obviously made for trotting
, although you can use it for whatever you fancy.
I have several or more pins with a 1 1/8th wide arbour. You'll find that with a wider arbour you won't get anything like the line stick you can get on say a 3/4 inch arbour.....especially when using a reel with line pillars! I would imagine your reel will have 12 pillars as the majority of reels do.
Garry Mills makes reels with up to 18 line lays and this very much lessens line stick in narrower arbours. I have a pair of the FJT reels he made, the trotter has a 1 inch arbour, and specialist has a 1 1/8 arbour and they have 16 pillars so line stick is negligable.
Personally I would have no issues long trotting with your reel...and for any species.
I noticed that you've carfully loaded the reel evenly across the arbour....imo, your wasting your time doing that, my advice is to load it as in goes on which is usually a heap in one spot or another.