6/7 Spey Rods
I have owned a Sage 6126 for about one month, and it is an awesome rod for me.
It will cast the W/C 5/6 or MS 6/7 floating lines as a dry line rod. It will out cast in distance my Meis 5/6 switch rod and Sage 7136 with either line. The best floating line in bigger waters is the MS 6/7, and in smaller tight waters, the W/C 5/6 works very well.
It rips the tip compensator and a 15' tip with a large sinking fly with the WC 678 with the upgrade or the MS 7/8 with tips right out of the water, including some high flows on the American River with large shad flies.
I can cast as far with this rod as with my Sage 7141 with less effort.
The rod brings large shad and trout up to 3 #'s in quickly (no trout over 3#'s yet

) , but I 'm sure that it will handle any trout on the West Coast with no problem. It should handle any steelhead that I'm lucky to get on in N California and S Oregon during the Spring to Fall seasons.
The shorter length enables me to cast the rod in areas where a 14' to 15' rod would become a 12' rod due to trees, brush, rocks and other stuff along the bank.
Thanks to this ability to use in close quarters, I have used it fairly successful with streamers in Putah Creek. I can get to seams that good one handed casters can't get to, inspite of the close quarters. It is a high sticking dream rod.
Yard overhead casting with any one handed 8 weight line works very well, (6 weight one handed lines don't load the rod for me). I can cast the entire head and belly of the Teeny 200 and 300 with a simple roll cast and one over head back cast of the head and a few feet of line out of the rod tip, the rest of the line shoots out like a rocket. I plan to test it in/on the surf in the next few weeks.
I wouldn't recommend the rod for trout that are smaller than 1 pound. The good thing about the small trout is that you get them in rapidly, release them in shallow water and monitor them until they swim away.