Ross Cimarron Creek Reel – USA Made Click & Pawl with a 3D Printed Twist

“The First Open Source Click Pawl Reel Ever Made”

That’s a bold marketing statement, right?

I love a nice click & pawl reel. Ross Reels just came out with a new model, the Cimarron Creek, which is fully machined in the USA and has a relatively low price of $249. Whether or not you like the aesthetics of the Cimarron Creek, that’s a pretty nice product/price value proposition.

The reel also comes out of the box with a pair of “soft” pawls and a pair of “stiff” pawls that you can interchange and mix and match to get the tension and sound you’re looking for. Because who doesn’t want their clicker to make a sexy “purr”?

But what makes this kind of unique… nah, actually really unique, is that Ross has open sourced the pawl design so you can 3D print pawls yourself using their downloadable .stp or .stl files.

While that may be too mad-scientist for most anglers, for those that want to geek out, that’s kinda rad. I can just envision some mad genius downloading those files, but then taking it to a whole next level and creating “musical” pawls. Something along the lines of this, but that only play when you have a tank on the end of the line.

Anyway, 3D printed pawls aside, the Cimarron Creek seems like a really good option for anyone looking at a “value” pricepoint, made in USA machined reel.

Should I add this to the list of reels I want to buy, but will never have enough time to fish? You already know the answer, don’t you…

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