Here on the coast of CT I and others use spey rods in the salty water. We are generally fishing estuary flows on the ebb tides rather than surf. It is like fishing a flowing river. The game fish are sitting out there at the esturary mouth waiting for the ebb tide to bring them dinner.

We are also starting to use somewhat shorter Switch Rods.

I use a light 7 Wt Spey and a 5 Wt Switch for trout on bigger rivers at times---especially throwing hoppers.

I started with the Speys years ago pursuing Steelhead and Atlantics in rivers.