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 Waterworks is a project of Ketchum, Idaho’s C1 Design Group, a commercial design firm that got its start in the early nineties designing mountain bike suspensions for Cannondale and Kestrel. During the mid-nineties, C1 Design entered the fly fishing industry with a fish-releasing tool called the Ketchum Release, and Waterworks was born in earnest. Through an association with Sage, Waterworks engineers were soon designing reels, driven to make lighter weight, better balanced, mechanically simple, large-arbor machines built of superior materials and housing fully sealed, conical drag systems. In essence, these were reels like nothing the industry had ever seen. Late 1998 saw Waterworks acquire Lamson, a brand known since the early eighties for bringing fully machined reels to market at a decent price. Since the merger, the stringent set of design goals the company began with has become even more stringent, and more comprehensive. Today, reels from Waterworks/Lamson continue to be among the lightest, best-performing products on the market.
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