I ended up nail knotting 3' of 25# to the sink tip line, followed by blood knotting 2' of 20#, 2' of 14# 2' of 10# and 3' of 6#.Ice out will tell the story on how well it turns over with the 8 1/2' #4 rod.
The nice thing about making your own tapers is the ease of making changes when they don't perform. I like to add a tiny drop of super glue to the knots when I trim them to help eliminate the knots picking up surface scum and weeds etc.
For the floating line I will probably make a similar leader, and drop down to 2# for the real small dry flies.
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