Coach,
In all likelihood, you guys are probably better casters/fishermen than I am. I'm just sharing my observations from doing a lot of searching and recent tests going from manufactured leaders to trying some of my own....just to "see".

This last couple of years since I've been helped along very much in my casting presentations, I'm able to nicely lay out a cast w/o it tailing and to usually control things better. This enabled me to play with leaders w/o them tangling so poorly.

It's fun. And it's something that you can take as just so-so or (if you wish) you can dig into it. If you do that, the catch rate tells you you're doing something right! It all adds to the enjoyment.

Jeremy.