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I ran across this knot recently, claimed to hold a 600 lb Tarpon.  Worth thinking about.  But remember, the drag on your reel is not set the same everyone.  You need the drag tight, but to exceed the line strength.  Anyway here is the knot:  it's good for small hook eyes where my 3+3 may not work.

Thread once through the eye of the hook.

Bring back the end of the line (tag end) and grasp the line and tag end with your thumb and index finger.

Wrap the tag end around  the line and your index finger once.

Continue 2 more wraps on your finger, but this time, choose a slight angle (10 degrees or so back towards your hand)

Now, slip the tag end underneath and towards your finger tip, passing those 2 angled wraps and the up

Your teeeth will have to catch the tip of the line.

Pull the line up so it is between the wrap closest to your finger tip.

Somehow, slip your finger out of the loops and close the knot.

You should end up with a strong knot with one wrap through the eye of a smaller hook..

I THINK THIS KNOT IS GOOD FOR SALT WATER, BUT YOU USE TOO MUCH LINE FOR FLY FISHING AND PROBABLY NOT a COMPARATIVE STENGTH ADVANTAGE THAN THE EASIER  3+3 KNOT  FOR BASS.  Give it a try, you might like it.

Orvis Knot

     This is a good knot for saving tippet for fly fishing and good for bass.
(Orvis.com has an illustrator of this knot, but this description will help you.)

Rodeo Knot

This is an effective knot. Cowboys who rope steers use it. This is a good loop knot. I recently used it to attach a nylon strap to a ring that was on a strap that had a snap. I made a tether to walk my dog. The sequence after slipping the strap/rope through the ring is under, over, under, under. Take your mind off the ring: you are making a knot that's going to slip down onto the ring. -- Pass the tag end of the rope/strap UNDER the standing line. -- Then back OVER that standing line. You're now looking at loop with a knot being tied before the loop. -- Now, pass the tag end UNDER the crisscross and continue back UNDER that segment of the standing line that passed over the standing line. That's it: UNDER, OVER, UNDER, UNDER. You just formed the Rodeo knot that can be tightened down on the ring of that dog strap or whatever. I believe Gregory Peck used this knot in the escape scene of the 1961 W.W. II movie The Guns of Naverone:)