Oh, don't worry about a shorter one. You just need to know what you're going to do with the extra rope when you're salmon fishing. When you anchor up, unless you're first and let ALL the rope out, which is a pain, you're going to have extra rope. If there are folks around you, you're going to want to throw the buoy over and drift out if, I mean when, you hook one. The extra rope then is a problem, if you don't coil it up and tie it up. Big zip ties can be handy for that.