Can anyone give me any information/opinion on the new Ross Gunnison Heritage reel? Seems it will be coming out soon from Telluride Angler. Looks nice and all American made. The price looks good to me too. Thanks in advance.

I preordered one from telluride anglers website. They look nice but didn't know much about them.

I liked the looks of it (although on the boring side..) but it was quite heavy.
What I really didn't like (and that's why I sold it) was the clicker & drag combo. The clicker was way too lod for my taste and no way to disable it since it's a part of the drag system.

You can remove the pay clicker, but the wind clicker is here to stay, and it's the loud one

it never bothered me, because it's a fact of the ratchet mechanism, which is a tried-and-true process.

Certainly the Gunnison is one of the Modern Classics.

wouldn't a new Lamson LP Lite be a hoot?

I second the Colorado

I sold mine a couple of years ago because I wasn't fishing it, and someone should be.
With it, they bought the karma of literally 1000 fish to hand, even the bycatch of sockeye salmon when fishing for Alaskan rainbows and dollies.

Yep. My Cimarron 2 is the same weight and balances a 5wt 8' glass rod decently, altho I think a C3 would be slightly better.

That's the problem with a lot of new reels ... they are designed to balance lightweight graphite and weigh under 4oz or conversely, are 8-10oz for spey rods. It's not easy to find a 5-6oz reel unless you look at vintage designs.

I would love to see a run of LP clutches. I have some LP's but one or two needs a rebuild (I know. .. send them to Arch).

I got the call back from my local shop. Any ross distributor can order them, so give your local shop some business.

The Ross site states they are post98 spool compatible. (sounds like they dusted off the patterns or even found some old ones in the closet :-) ).

I have to check my inventory. I may be getting a new G2.

Bulldog had a good post on the clicker sound of the Gunnisons back in the archive. They do not evoke the romantic sound of a hardy lightweight and I am being gracious. I think of them as the disk drag equivalent to the medalist (and no, we don't need a pimped medalist picture here). They are not the prettiest but they certainly are bulletproof.

I ordered a G2 through my local shop today. I don't get a chance to buy much from them, since I don't seem to be interested in most of what they carry.

I have a number of the Ross R 3's, 3.5's, S-1, and S-3 reels. I made rods for Ross and his wife in exchange for them and spare spools. They are my favorite of all the reels I have. Machined from solid blocks of aluminum.