The 600 will be a great start, I have no experiance with the rainshadow blanks, but I have 600 grns on other 13-14 ft 8 wts.
Your 8wt tips will be fine for some/most of the water, you may want to invest in some t11 until you get good at casting and fishing the spey as T14 is a big jump in sink rate from 8wt and you may spend a lot of time re rigging if you start off with t14.
You can throw the skagit 600 with a dry tip if you add some cheater say a 10 foot floater, it will save you some money until your abilities become second nature as to warrant a fancy dry only line.
I agree the dry floater on them does suck but for the spey a simple addition of belly (cheater) will overcome the problem.
have fun and get ya some steel.
Your 8wt tips will be fine for some/most of the water, you may want to invest in some t11 until you get good at casting and fishing the spey as T14 is a big jump in sink rate from 8wt and you may spend a lot of time re rigging if you start off with t14.
You can throw the skagit 600 with a dry tip if you add some cheater say a 10 foot floater, it will save you some money until your abilities become second nature as to warrant a fancy dry only line.
I agree the dry floater on them does suck but for the spey a simple addition of belly (cheater) will overcome the problem.
have fun and get ya some steel.
