No matter how good a fisherman you are , the most important tackle item especially in this country is clothing, we all like nice pieces of kit whether it be top of range reels and rods etc. But above all regardless of what level of fisher you are keeping warm and dry is the priority 😉.
Normally I would dismiss spending even half of that on a jacket but my second cheap and cheerful Airflo jacket has just burst down the seam of my casting arm just as the first one did. So perhaps if I had bought an expensive jacket in the first place I would not now be looking for a third jacket in four years.
I think, the SST is not so waterproof like the River Salt because the River Salt ist Polyester and the SST is only Nylon...with the SST you get wet in rainy days