North 40 Fly Shop eMagazine August 2016 | Page 27

Reels When Ross Reels representative, Brooks Montgomery, told us we were going to be excited about their newest reel, I was sort of thinking, “Yeah… we’ll see about that,” because honestly, I haven’t been the biggest Ross Reels supporter over the past few years. I think they are great reels made in Colorado, but “cool” and “exciting” haven’t been words I’d been using to describe them. Until now, with the new Colorado LT Reel—this is one of the coolest new reels at the show. To follow that up, they took the Animas reel and left the porting out to give it a more traditional spey reel look and better swing weight for double hand rods. I can’t wait to own both of these products.