Simple Leader Design for Smallmouths

[lastchance]

Does anyone care to share a simple leader design for smallmouths? I've only ever used a piece of 20-pound and a piece of
10-pound. The 20 pound is connected to a piece of 30-pound amnesia butt section, maybe a foot long. I was thinking something else would might help. It seems to work okay, but maybe I can improve it.
Thanks,
Bruce

[anglerdave]

For top water, I have used 3' of 20#, 15# & 10#. For subsurface a staright 8' or 9' piece of 10# fluro. Seems to work for me.

On a recent smallmouth guided float trip the guide rigged us up with a 9' Rio Bass leader tapered down to 10#. Cut of 2' and blood knoted on 10# Maxima Chamelion. That also worked quite well for the top water bugs that we were throwing.

[sagefisher]

I keep it very simple, I just use a 4 to 5 foot piece of Maxima Ultragreen mono leader in the 12 pound and above range.

Larry ---sagefisher---

[Buddy Sanders]

Bruce,

What you are using seems fine to me.

I wouldn't change anything unless it's causing you trouble.

Bass don't tend to be leader shy, especially with topwater applications, and if it ain't broke, why try to fix it?

Buddy

[DaleW]

For the majority of fishing I do I keep it simple and easy to do. When fishing for bass, that's on the surface (poppers) or under the surface, nymphs, streamers or wet flies, I do a leader of 20# mono of about 5 1/2' and tying on about 3 1/2' of 6# mono. Follow he same pattern for trout, only doing the same lengths of 12# mono and tying on 4# mono. Only when fishing dry flies do I use a store bought tapered leader, and then usually tying on a 5X tippet.

Seems to work for the girls I go with.