It will be soooooo much easier when you learn how to put a Shorb loop in the butt end ... and the tippet end, if you're not going to use the tippet rings. Just hand shake them puppies, and go fish! You may also find 5' or even 3' leaders to "fit" Bennett Spring better. Crackle backs work all year round, as do caddis, ants, and midges.
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.