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Drumcorpfan, everybody has there own preference on length of leader ect. What I would suggust is that you give a couple of different lengths a try and see which one works best for you depending on what type of gear you are using.
If you are using a 7 foot rod, you don't want your leader so longs as to not be able to properly load and cast the rod. Obiously the longer the rod the longer the leader you would use. We only use 30# seagar florocarbon, we use a small barrel swivel and tie 2 seperate knots, in that same barrel, one for the teaser itself and one for the main leader, that way if you get 2 fish on at one time and one is very large or both. this will prevent you from losing both fish, because the lines are not attached together. At the bottom we attach a small snap to the main leader, so that you can change to any lure you want.
Sometimes you will have the lines cross, but with the stiffer leader line they unravel pretty quickly, this will aslo not hinder your hookup ratio as to the fish this line is invisable. Mostly this happens from casting out and also depends on what type of lure you are using, the more aerodynamic the lure the less cross you get. The one you need to worry about is when the fly leader moves up over onto your main line because if you hook up this could break your main line and you could lose the whole rig. So that is the only time we worry about the line crossing. When we are boat fishing we will use heaver leader if the fish we have come across are bigger. But we have landed many doubles with both fish weighing about 20lbs each on 30# floro. But the choice is yours. I would just recomend trying different lengths, you don't want the leader so long that you cannot cast properly, so keep that in mind. Our main leaders are about 30 inches long and the fly leader is about 1/2 of that. Hope this helps, just my 2 cents.
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