I am building a quickline 6wt switch rod for fishing searun cuttrhroat in puget sound, washington. These rods are new to me. i will be casting from shore, using light to medium flies, not using an indicator, wanting the fly a foot or so below the surface, stripping it in and interested in distance mainly because of the wind. I will be using mainly a spey type cast. At this point that is the only fishing I will use this rod for. I have heard varying suggestions as to the line I should use on this rod. One person suggested going two wts up-8wt. Another suggested a 350 to 425 grain head. I have heard some say go to a skandi or skagit type with loop to loop and others say an integrated line would be better. I do have an Rio outward bound 5wt shooting head floating that I use with a regular fly rod. It does not get me the distance I need in the wind. I have been told to get Wulffs Ambush line. I do not want to end up buying several lines to find the "right" one. What one line would get the closest to what i require?

You want to talk to Aaron Reimer he used to own River Run Anglers (http://aboutriverrunanglers.blogspot.com/) now defunct but you should be able to contact him there or search his name + spey. He has a free class in Fall City every weekend with a bucket of reels and lines. He will know what you need and let you test it out. I'm ver curious as to how a spey cast works at the beach. Do you do a dump cast?

I have the same rod and am using an 8 weight Rio Indicator line on it, mainly short roll casts. The line may be a bit heavy for the rod but it works for me. If you visit the Pac Bay website I believe they now have recommended line weights for the Quickline series.

Carl, why don't you check out Spey Pages .com. The only thing discussed there is spey and switch rod fishing.

I will be in Arizona for about 6 months so will not be going to Fall City until after.

Well, probably won't be fishing the beach much during that time, either ;-)