I bought a new fly rod combo - Okuma with backing, line and leader on the reel. The rod is fantastic. The reel is smooth. My only problem: I'm on the stream and at some point I've reeled in my line a bit too far and the leader goes sailing up through the guides and my fly is just sitting at the end of my rod. Now my rod is 9 feet long and to get the leader back out I have to put down the rod.
With my other rods I tend to work with a shorter leader - so that it becomes a bit heavier on the rod and this problem doesn't occur.
Any suggestions on how to deal with this outside of changing leaders? Am I doing something wrong?