I have a couple of the Rio's. They are pretty good. The connector isn't invisible, but it's reasonably small.

I only use them when I'm going to be using the wet lines. For dry line fishing, it's noticeably worse handling than a normal dry line.

I have them in 6 wgt, 8 wgt, and 7-8-9 spey.
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