mastertangler wrote on Mar 8^th, 2014 at 2:34am:

Jax I am not excited about your intention of having a 3 or 4 foot leader using a snap that you will be unable to reel through your eyelets. That is 3 or 4 ft of line out there at boat side while you try to handle the fish. Potentially awkward.........been there, done that.

i never reel in the last 4+ feet of line, i very much dislike the tip of the rod anywhere near a fish or a net. i usually will fight the fish for a while and then bring it near the side of canoe and grab the line, not too tightly, and go from there. i rarely ever lose a fish boatside, and the ones i do lose are those that are very poorly hooked to begin with.

i dont like the rod being 'loaded' when i reach for a hook, especially way far from civilization. i grab the line so that there is no 'surprise' physics. thats a benefit of a superline, mono has a little spring to it, whereas superline doesnt.