Page 46 - Joseph B. Healy "The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots"

The Trilene Knot came about, Jimmy remembers, when he and Ricky
Green were fooling around during fishing promotions, trying different
knots, and trying to get people to change over from Stren fishing line to

Trilene—and to teach people how to tie better fishing knots. “Back then,
Ricky Green and I did a lot of those store promotions. A lot of times in
those days, at a promotion, we would tie thousands of knots. We tried
every kind of quirky thing to tie knots, and then put it on the machine and
let it break it or try to break it or pull it through. Well, Ricky Green and I

actually developed the Trilene knot for those promotions. We showed it to
Trilene and told them, ‘Hey, this is sensational, it’s a great knot.’
Everyone was comparing it to the Palomar Knot. If you tie the Palomar
Knot well, it’s 100 percent. So we showed our knot to Trilene, and I said ‘I
want to call it the Jimmy Houston Knot.’ And Ricky Green said, ‘Well, I
want to call it the Ricky Green Knot.’ When we came up with it we were
playing with that machine, and it wouldn’t break. That’s the origin of the

Trilene knot. In the process of all that they didn’t call it the Jimmy
Houston or the Ricky Green knot, they called it the Trilene Knot, which is
how it’s known today. This was probably the late 1970s.
“Back in the seventies and eighties, people didn’t know how to tie