The G-loomis Cross current is a sick 8 wt rod.
Neat report, bummer about the rod tip, but if you aren’t breakin em, you aren’t fishin em!
Loomis’s now $100 dollar expediter service is still well worth it, 100 bucks and you get a brand new rod and tube shipped to you within 2 days, at least, that is what i believe it is now.