RE: leader for bass
thats about what we do for salmon although when we have our short leaders, 3-4ft its solid same weight....for the smaller salmon we use straight mono also and join them with dbl surgeons or blood knots if we make them up before hand. a couple spools of mono are much much cheaper then equal amounts of tippet or leaders!!! The same thing with the flourocarbon! Dont buy it in the smaller tippet dispensers! Bass pro sells the stuff cheapola!