If you use fluoro leaders for Pike, what length do you use? I'm trying to make them as long as I would like (3ft), but I can't cast as well as I'd like with a leader that long. I don't want to heavy guage fluoro leader to pass through my rod's first guide, so I'm having trouble controlling the 3ft of line out of my rod. I'm trimming it down and trying to work on the appropriate length of line that I can get a good ratio of length and catability.
What length do you all use? What length do you find still gives you the invisibility of fluoro but still castable? Are the benefits of fluoro's invisibility negated after 12", 18", 24"? the longer the better?
Thanks in advance!