Merry Christmas, DWAW!
6-weight is a bit stout for your purposes, but you can still have a good time with it as well as tame some nice bass with it.
I'd go with a straight-up WF-6-F line; don't spend a bunch of money on it - $40 or so is good! If it has a braided loop connector on the leader-end of it, good. If not, put one there. Then loop-to-loop the leader to it - 6 feet tapered to 8-pound or thereabouts should suffice. If there isn't a perfection loop on the butt-end of the leader, tie one there for loopoing to the braided connector on the line. Then tie around 1 1/2 feet of 8 or 6-pound mono to the end of the leader with a surgeon's knot (Double-overhand). That will give you some "extra" to tie flies to without overly shortening the tapered part of the leader.
Finally comes the hard part - waiting on spring!
Good luck!
Pete