A:
It depend where you are fishing, if you are fishing thick stuff like lilly pads, brush, grass, than you need a burner. My frog set-up is the following:
Curado 7:1, with a 7' heavy Action and 17lb mono.
You want to get the fish out of the cover as fast as you can. If you are fishing just shallow water, than the reel gears you mention will do just fine.