Rivers Inlet knot...tough as nails...I use it for almost every line connection in my repertoire.

I use Maxima Crystal Ivory, and I change it out about every two or three trips, which means about once every week or ten days. That works out to about ten bucks per month, per rod...maybe a total of $40 per month I spend on line for my steelhead fishing.

Expensive? I guess, but it could be worse...and I spend more than that for gas for each and every trip, so from that standpoint, it's not that expensive.

This is the same point I made in one of the pink worm threads...no one said that steelhead fishing is a good financial decision! If that's what it takes to catch fish, then that's what it takes, for me, at least.

Fish on...

Todd