I'll be pulling steelhead plugs (hot shots/tadpollys) for the first time from my driftboat on both the Sky and the Cowlitz over the holidays. This won't be my pimary tactic as I'll be using float/eggs/jigs as well as side-drifting. However, there were a fair amount of runs on both these rivers I observed during my scouting drifts that I think I'd like to work over with plugs as I'm drifting down to the next slot I want to work with other techniques. I don't have dedicated plugging rods as of yet so I'll be repurposing a couple other rods where the baitcasters are loaded with 30 lb power-pro. I assume that you wouldn't want to run powerpro all the way to the plugs but want some mono in there for both lo-visability and shock absorbtion. So my question is this . . .

How long of a mono leader should I use and how heavy?

Thanks in advance guys!
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