We used to fish in Ireland with power gum instead of elastic, With 6lb line and 10s hook fishing to hand rather like whip fishing minus the over hand cast.
Could never call it whip fishing for the simple fact if you tried to cast with a pole the same way as a whip the pole would snap.
I would never fish with my carbon whips with heavy lines and big hooks. 0.12 main line and 0.08 hook lengths is my maximum, earlier this week I fished my whips. Fish were getting too big for me with regard to whip fishing, they were verging on 8oz so I changed to a short pole. Lucky I did, the fish gradually got larger, I had Roach to 12oz and skimmers to 2lb on wheat.
Like I said we all have our own ways