Pitch Pocket: Are you asking about leader length or pound test?

With fixed floats like the Turbo Master and the Thill Premium Steelhead Float, I slide the float directly up my mainline (usually two to four feet), and then I tie my jig to the tag end of the mainline. No swivels at all. Just one knot: jig to mainline. Simplicity at its finest. In the winter, I usually run 10-lb. monofilament mainline, and in summer I pare down to 8 lb.

As far as length between jig and float goes, my jig is usually two to four feet below my jig, depending on water depth. When fishing deeper holes, I sometimes have as much as seven or eight feet between jig and float.

Of course, that's just the way I do it. Ask ten different guys and you'll probably get ten different answers. Good luck.