are you fishing big water? I mention a switch rod because they are in between you can fish them one handed , yet if you hit big water you can switch to two hands . Unless you are going for big steelhead or browns up in NY . The switch rods are nice but you start getting into pricey stuff and having to buy bigger reels ,to hold the shooting lines ,do some reseach before you get into it ,Most east coast streams dont need a switch or a spey ,some do though if you want to reach across like the lackawacsen or something like that ,some parts of the upper delaware too. Im looking into a 6wt or 5wt for wet fly fishing . There is alot involved in all this but once you wade through the mumbo jumbo ,it is interesting .'you can also single hand spey cast ,which im just looking into