Mcmutt,
While being a tad skeptical (born of 50 years of pike fishing I guess) and always using wire (17# in this case) your post says nothing is absolute.
You have piqued my interest and I think I'm going to give this line a try. Common sense tells me not to but...you seem to have good luck. I'm willing to try.
I'm guessing I just might be able to run into someone someplace that will have a used spool with a few yards left on it, so I don't have to buy 100 yds. Folk are usually standing around the shop so I"ll ask around.
Thanks for riling me up here. Never hurts to look around.
Edit..I can experiment a bit but would you mind sharing your preferred knots for attaching tippet to leader (Allbright??) and fly to tippet? (Non-slip loop??)
Thanks.
Jeremy.
[This message has been edited by Jeremy (edited 19 April 2006).]