They havn't arrived yet but a few days ago I ordered from Italy some 5 packs of knotless mono tapered surf casting shock leaders. Each one is shown to be 45 feet long with 30 feet of it being the thickest heavy 80# portion, which is easy enough to trim down to 20 ft or less if wanted, and the other 15 feet being a taper down to the lighter end. The heaviest, lighter end I could find was 18# tapering up to an 80#) but my thinking is I can find the place in the taper that comes close to the diameter of my top shot that I'm splicing it onto and cut it off and tie in there, leaving somewhere between 7-10 feet of taper. Hopefully this turns out to be a legit way to solve that damn top shot to shock leader bulky knot's associated issues of running through the rod guides smoothly, laying on the reel spool and salad collecting.
Anyone ever tried using tapered leaders before? (other then for flyfishing)
I'll update after they've arrived and I try them out...
and no, I couldn't find any that tapered up to 100#. Seems like there would be a market for a 30# or 40# tapering up to 100#, from members on this site alone...
JOE