I was fishing this last weekend we had a three day fishery for sockeye salmon in lake washington. Problem was the first day I lost a few hooks on the rigs I tied. It was allways the bottom hook that I tied on first that broke. I was using 25 pound test that was new so a 6 pound salmon should not have broken the line. The second day I retied all to 50 pound test and did not have a problem and caught all 7 bites we had. I must be doing something wrong here is what I did. First I tied the bottom hook on using a snell knot I ran the hook thru the eye then made a loop with the short loose end at the bottom of the hook wrapped 10 times then pulled the short end to take up the slack. Now on the second hook the one higher up on the line I ran the line up thru the eye and made a loop of all the line with the first hook just below this hook and wraped 10 times then pulled up the slack line thru the top. At looking at the setup afterwards it appears that the line to the bottom hook is pulled across the bottom loop of the top hook and breaking at that point. When tying this should I have made my slack line on the first hook longer so that I could use it to tie another hook to it using a snell. Also if anyone can tell me how to tie a sliding top hook that would be great as that is what I wanted to do in the first place but when I tied the snell knot on it and trimmed the ends and applied some pressure it would just unravel and slide down to the first hook.