Not that I'm aware of, if your fishing a jig, spoon, spinner or weighted fly.. The hook is on the weight. The intention of a shorter leader is to use the weight as part of the presentation, winter fish are lethargic and lazy, the weight "wakes" the fish, your rag or yarni is directly over the fish and the fight or flight instinct sets in.. Often the fish hammers the feces out of the rag. The trick is to use a large enough corky or rag to float high, not enough buoyancy and the presentation drags and becomes a snagging problem, you don't want that. When a leader is too long it's ineffective through all of the forward and middle drift, when drag finally hits the round corky at the tail out and swing the round corky creates high drag and sucks down into the strike zone, this is why so many fish are hooked at the tail end of a drift, or during the swing. A short leader and super buoyant presentation is effective the whole drift. Your weight will not spook any fish that wouldn't spook anyway, I've sen dozens of steelhead strike a green slinky.. And ignore the yarn. There's a ton of hall monitors on the forum, I'm sure if I'm wrong on the legalities of a short leader they will certainly point it out-
