I had this same issue for awhile, I would take 1 drag and its good, 2 and its dry.
At the time, I was using 24G 10 wraps around 1/16 at 0.5 ohms and after every drag, it would sizzle for a bit. The coil was too hot for it's own internal diamter.
Since I switched to 6 wraps of 24G around a 3/32...