It’s all the rage, long sleeve, technical “tee” shirts for fly fishing with strong evaporative properties, breathability and wicked sun protection. Welcome to the Sage Seagrass Shirt! This technical fly fishing shirt provides the protection and comfort you need when spending extended time on the water. Not to worry about the long sleeves in the summer heat, as this technical shirt breaths to keep you comfortable and dries quickly to increase evaporative cooling. All this comfort doesn’t even take in account the exciting bamboo-coal infused fabric for anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. Once again Sage on the cutting edge! The Sage Seagrass Shirt for serious and not so serious fly angler that would like a cool, technical fishing shirt.
Guides in the Keys have long known the importance of long sleeves! The Sage Seagrass Shirt provides the comfort of a tee with the technology of flats shirts. This polyester long sleeve t-shirt provides rapid drying for high evaporative cooling, while the infusion of bamboo-charcoal provides breathability through micro-gaps within the weave plus anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. These anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties keep your Sage Seagrass Shirt fresh for days! The UPF 30+ sun protection is extended by the long sleeves and slight extended collar. Sage has always done colors well and the Sage Seagrass Shirt is no exception with current colors of Bay, Smoke, Brunt Orange, and Sage. Regardless if you’re into t-shirts or flats shirts the Sage Seagrass Shirt keeps you comfortable and cool while keeping you looking good in the process.
You use Sage fly fishing rods, maybe even their reels and lines, so why not wear their logo apparel as well. You know you want one maybe even two! When it comes to fly fishing design, be it rods, reels, luggage or even logo apparel Sage has always been at the top of the game. They have lead the way with cutting edge designs and patterns, they know what looks good on clothing and causally give you Sage logo T-shirt and apparel, without making you look like a walking billboard or filling your shirt with an anger looking fish with hook in its jaw. Be it their fine looking classy fly fishing tee shirts or their soft shell, you’ll be comfortable wearing them to the river, the stream, the flats or any of your favorite haunts. Grab yourself a cool cotton Sage Logo T-shirt, a rain protective soft shell or cozy warm pullover and show some Sage pride.
Sage has been as committed to performance and innovation as any fly rod manufacturer in the world. Their dedication to research and development has produced some of the finest fly fishing rods ever conceived. Models like the XP and RPLX helped put Sage in a class reserved for only the best manufacturers. And many argue models like the Xi2 and the Z-Axis have sent more than a few companies scurrying to catch up.
Sage, under the guise of company founder Don Green, has been pushing the envelope with state of the art materials from the moment the company opened its doors in 1980. Sage was the first company to incorporate the use of IM6 (Graphite II) graphite in their fly rods. Throughout the years Sage's use of graphite evolved, from graphite II and then to graphite III, and finally graphite IV. Today, all their high-end rods contain Graphite IIIe, a blend of both graphite III and IV. To date, graphite IIIe has the highest strength to weight ratio on the market. From the outset, the company's goal has been to create rods that generate high line speeds. As thousands of Sage owners will attest, the design of their rods enables the fisherman to have extraordinary line control. Casting a Sage fly rod means placing your fly where you want it, not where you hope it goes.
In 1994 Sage brought in Jerry Siem to take over rod development and design. Siem, a Minnesota native, has been responsible for the development of the XP, SLT and Xi2. These fly rods quickly found themselves on rivers, streams, and flats all over the world. They are characterized as exceptional casting rods that allow both the novice and the expert to enjoy them tremendously. With the advent of the TCR in 2003, then Xi2 in 2004 and now the Z-Axis, Jerry has raised the bar for what is known as "fast action rods". Sage has nine separate rod lines (excluding their impressive Spey rods), encompassing the spectrum of applications.
“With long sleeves, a slightly extended collar and UPF 30+ sun protection, these shirts are an excellent choice when keeping the sun’s rays and the water’s reflection off your skin is a must. The polyester and bamboo-charcoal fabric also means that your shirt will stay smelling fresh after a long week in the tropics. Bay, Smoke, Burnt Orange and Sage.”
Something New From Sage: “It’s difficult to fully appreciate the beauty of the fish we seek—a wild trout’s jeweled radiance, a striper’s robust profile, the immaculate chrome of a fresh-run steelhead—without coming to some kind of understanding about the places they live. Ultimately, these fish are the very essence of their home waters. With this in mind, we as a company are working to become better caretakers of the water we love so much. [Our catalog] is one example of our efforts. Produced with soy ink on chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper by a Forest Stewardship Council-certified printer, this publication makes a significantly lower impact on the environment than a traditional catalog. Our hope is that you’ll see the value of what we’re doing and refer to our website for the full lineup of rods, reels and other gear. Will this change the world? Not by a long shot. We understand the small steps we’re taking—such as doing away with paper order forms or replacing worn office carpet with sustainable products—won’t save the environment on their own. But it’s a start. We’re also continuing our support of groups like the Hoh River Trust, the Haig-Brown Institute, the Federation of Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited. And, as one of 37 companies making up the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska, we’re committed to fight the disastrously planned Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay. Small steps, yes. But we think they’re in the right direction. If it only makes a small difference, you may ask, why would we give up something as important as our catalog? Or go out of the way to make our day-to-day work more difficult? Or spend valuable time and resources on projects that will never generate a profit? The only answer is another question: As a company of people who live to fish, how could we not? See you on the water.”
"KIDS AT PLAY: Remember when you got so excited you couldn’t sleep the night before fishing? Or how your hands shook with anticipation trying to rig up? Or the hopes held in a morning’s thrilling first cast? Of course, after a lifetime of fishing, it’s awfully easy to become jaded. Tales of huge fish in exotic destinations are a long way from the kid who, fearing he’d sleep past dawn, lay on his back in the tent, holding tennis shoes above his face. In the unlikely event he should actually drift off, the shoes would bounce off his head to wake him. And that was just to catch first light at the local bluegill pond. In the soul of every angler lives the kind of fun we felt as kids. It’s what keeps our love for fishing alive. A psychologist might say we’re harboring some kind of Peter Pan complex, but for us, it’s what fly fishing is really all about. It might also explain why people are always asking anglers when they plan to “grow up.” We’d also like to introduce you to J.D. Love and Brian Horsley, who provide the kind of on-the-water-every-day input that’s essential to creating rods with maximum fishability. J.D. and Brian are “serious” anglers, but even after decades of guiding, both retain a kid’s excitement about fishing. Our kind of people. Whether you last felt the anticipation that leads to sleepless nights and shaking hands a week ago or a lifetime ago, may you experience it again in the upcoming season. When are we going to grow up...Hopefully never. See you out there."
