Do you use them guys?
I mean from boat or in the surf…why not?
I have used spey rods from the beach, but they are not practical in a boat. I actually prefer switch rods in the 11 foot range to spey rods. They are just more convenient and easier to land larger saltwater fish with. Landing a fish with a spey rod is almost a two person affair.
Rocketfish i have fished the surf with both spey and switch rods and will have to go along with what dunfly has said.I also like the way you can overhead cast with a switch rod better than the spey rod. Chucke3
Hi Rocketfish, I have used my spey rod in the salt, but only once so far and I found it hard going. I think I need a floating shooting head of about 550 grains but it will now have to wait for me to save some pennys.
I do know that Uncle Barry (faol member) in Queensland fishes a spey rod almost every day and he knows what he is doing, hopefully he may see this thread and give you some info.
All the best.
Mike.
Yes ,Yes to both how else could you take albies or strippers, without bait
check out the beulah surf rod. it is a two handed rod designed for double hand over head casting. i have no experience with it but it looks quite interesting
Good morning.
The answer to the question about Spey rods for use in Saltwater applications would require a PHD to be written.
Therefore I will chop it down to a few words.
Spey rods, are Double Handers.
BUT
all Doubles are not all the same, (here comes confusion)
there are Traditional, all kinds of progressive tapers and the the fast progressive taper that shines when used with a Shooting Head and this rod is ideal for saltwater casting.
If somone has problems with SW casting with the beautiful Spey rod, it is to be the case, because this the rod was never designed for this application, it was designed for Spey type casts WITH a Spey shaped line.
In fact it is not advisable to overhead cast lines with a belly longer that 55feet because of the fact, the rod will be over loaded and this might just blow-up your beautiful rod.
SW casting overhead requires Heads, (more confusion) however you can Spey cast with a shooting head, which weigh far less than Spey type lines.
example, for a 9/10w 14 foot rod, approx,
overhead loads 550grains
spey loads about 600grains for a short belly line, that is around 55feet, longer belly will have even more weight.
Answering a question or two,
“I have used my spey rod in the salt, but only once so far and I found it hard going”
I would wager the rod was a Spey type rod, this will result in blo…y hard work !
With a Spey type line, even more hard work and as a result you won’t want to use it very much !!!
“but they are not practical in a boat”
Thats news to me 
I’ve heard this statement too many times now and will not go through the reasons, AGAIN.
“I mean from boat or in the surf…why not?”
Why not… you shouldn’t ask me, because I cannot think of any reason why not, I use mine be it a 12foot Trout Spey to a 15foot 10/11w Fast taper Overhead casting rod, from a parm dinghy of 8 feet to boats of … length to the surf sand, to the ocean rocks to the rivers and lakes in both the salt and the freshwater.
Kind regards,
UB
Been using two handers in the salt since the early 90’s … just not spey rods. 
The requirements are vastly different from a two hander used in the salt and a spey rod used in a river. Both are excellent tools when used as intended just neither is the best choice for doing the other.
In the salt you want long, fast, and powerful in the surf.
Fact is Rocket the first spey rod I ever saw was a picture in a 1960’s Joe Brook’s book of an Argentine spey angler. 18’ bamboo or greenheart rod as my memory recalls.