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| What would you consider to be the ideal length of your leader?
Edited by DaveG 4/24/2005 4:06 PM
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| Personally I think about 15 inches is ideal. 12 inchers are too short and 18 inchers are too long for casting and are diffucult
to figure 8 with. Trolling I use at least 24+ inches. |
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Posts: 1046
| 8"-10" `s seem to work the best for casting musky sized baits for me. I don`t even like the 12" ones when fishing with say 10"jakes cause seems I loose some bait control on close incounters at the boat. I been making 36" for trolling! |
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Posts: 2691
Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I agree with the Handyman.
I like them around 9-inches for most of my client rods. If longer leaders are used I will hear the swivel contact the top guide to remind them to start the figure 8. Some of my longer rods will have 10 or 11-inch.
As far as trolling leaders I use longer leaders for larger baits and smaller casting size for smaller cranks. I found that the shorter the leaders the better the lure action in some cases. |
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| 10 to 12 inches casting (single strand, seven strand, flouro, or mono) and 30 to 36 inches trolling (flouro or mono)  |
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Posts: 1996
Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | I use 8-10"ers also. Only one time in my life have I had a fish get in front of these leaders, and that was a fish that charged the bait head on.
Edited by nwild 4/25/2005 7:46 AM
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Location: Des Moines IA | 10 - 12 inchers casting ... Flouro and solid wire ...... Trolling 100lb hard mono , 4 footers .......... |
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Posts: 1937
Location: Black Creek, WI | I use a leader mostly to protect against lure contact with the line. Thus, I like 10" of wire and then the hardware (BB swivel and Snap) so the total length is about 12". This is long enough to protect my line should a 10" lure such as a Jake get fouled up.
Because I'm lazy.... I now use these leaders for all applications (smaller lures). Since I'm only using 100# Single Strand wire I haven't noticed any negative impact on the action of smaller lures.
This may not be the best set-up... but I'm happy with it.
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Location: Iowa | Depends on the combo I am using and or the bait I am throwing...If I am throwing a jerkbait, stickbait, plastics or topwater, I will use a 12" straight wire leader that is anywhere from 100-170 lb...If I am throwing a crankbait, bucktail, or spinnerbait I will use a 14" -18" 7 strand wire leader anywhere from 100-170 again...And if I am trolling no matter what the lure I will use a 40" 7 strand wire leader that is 225 lb test...
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Leader length