Thanks for the good idea Coot. You are right about the 'price tag shock' for hardware these days. Same for some plastic plugs. Oouch! Your productive idea that saves dollars is valuable.

And I agree a lot with what you said Gooose. I too have gotten away from using spinners and spoons in the regular 'rotation' as I used to. I always carry a few with me but don't often get them out anymore. It's because I use jigs or worms or plugs as followups to drifting eggs, when I used to follow that with the hardware. I have been planning to get back to this more, so when we got off the Nestucca R. yesterday I stopped in at Kimmels Sporting Goods in Tillamook and bought some Lil Cleo spoons in different colors for steelheading. They are great spoons but I wince at the price I paid for them.

RT