Hi Guys,

I can see I wasn't clear enough with my post.

While I haven't put as much time in on mastering the two hander as I should I've been doing the steelhead game with flyrods (fly fishing period)for a long time.

I have both a straight floating line (airflo) and the windcutter for the spey outfit. Currently I'm using the sink tips. Besides the tips that come with the line I have a whole series of other RIO tips in various weights. I seem to experience the same problem whether I'm using the WindCutter tips or the other tips, which seems to indicate the problem may not be in the taper of the tips Brian mentioned but I'm going to take a closer look at that the next time I'm on the water.

My leaders for steelhead use on sink tips are generally 3'~5' long, whether on the two hander or with a one hander. While I usually use Umpqua leaders for my personal use my one handers, I've been using UG 8~15lb for leaders on the two hander.

From these and some other responses here and there across the web it's starting to look like it may be a combination of my skill level and the action/speed of the Loop Blackline rod.

I'm going to be trying out a few other spey sticks in the near future and I'll see what happens with longer/faster sticks.

Thanks for the input.

~w