I'm relatively new to fly fishing, a converted worm drowner. I fished a Sage DS 2 for three seasons and liked it very much. This year I thought I might like a little faster rod so I grabbed a Sage SLT that was offered me at a great price. First two trips out, I could not keep tippet on the leader, I purchused all new tippet and while better, it still vanishes more often than I can live with. Last trip while sitting around a campfire on the North Fork of the Clearwater the subject of rods came up. I mentioned that I was fishing an SLT and one of the "real" fisherman there said that the rod was famous for throwing away tippet and that was part of the reason it had been discontinued. So I'm wondering what I can do to get around this rather than just pass it on to the next smukk?


Jim