Youse fisher types are a weird lot ... I just use granny knots on EVERYTHING and I can still out-fish youse losers!
Youse fisher types are a weird lot ... I just use granny knots on EVERYTHING and I can still out-fish youse losers!
Local pro fisherman. Hard to describe. You need three hands to do it quickly.
Run line through hook eye twice. Take tag end and wrap around line above hook eye 6 times. Run tag end back through the loop. Pull tight against the line, THEN pull whole knot (it's basically a complicated slip knot at this point) down to hook eye. Bite off tag end.
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Does it make a big old knot booger? Sure sounds like a lot of line cinched down there.
Learning a new knot is a very hard thing for me for some reason. Its like languages, which I have zero aptitude for learning. When I get broke off or I'm changing lures, 99% of the time I tie a double improved clinch just out of habit. I think part of the problem now is since my close up vision requires me to wear my Walmart cheaters, I just tie my old knot because I can do it and leave my glasses in my pocket.
Speaking of, I started the battery of tests for this MDVIP program deal we signed up for and one of them was an eye test. At 20 feet, I am 20/15 in both eyes. At 8 feet I'm 20/20. they didn't test me at reading distances but everyone looks like Boog Powell to me close up. But that's exactly what my eye doc said I should expect. Dang, that Lasik is magic stuff. I think its been 5 or 6 years now since I had it done.
BKB
It sorta does till you learn how to do it. Then it's the Cat's Pajamas.
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I run a fluoro leader most of the time. I sometimes use a blood knot but a double-uni is my "go-to".Originally Posted by LJ3
If you turn a dog loose to hunt – you’d better to be ready to deal with what he trees.
I use a flouro shock leader (SUFIX Seige) on my stuff too and use a double uni as a splice. I keep biting it off until the leader is about a foot long because i hate tying those knots so much.
BKB
Barry, is it buried in this thread somewhere? The only other mention I can find is to an improved blood knot.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Raoul Duke
Nope, dang it. not in there.
bKB
I almost can remember it. Now I'll be up all night trying to remember it. that's the deal. I tie terminal knots all the time. a new leader goes on about two times a year tops.
BKB
palmer?
nope
Shirley Temple?
Tom Collins?
Jack Daniels?
I think you dreamed it.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness" - Mark Twain
Resolution? I'll go with the weight loss. It's getting to be a chore hauling a fat guy up a tree!
--Foo
I still have not learned to fly fish. I'm a little late with that resolution. Its on my to-do list though!
bKb
Gentlemen, for tying on leader, please try the improved albright knot. Can't remember where I learned it, but have found it to be invaluable in tying 50 lb mono to 20 lb braided line for jig fishing Rockfish.
ETA: Same knot as BBP posted in the other thread - should have caught up in all threads before posting!
Last edited by Egghead; 08-26-2015 at 01:44 AM.
I believe that would be the Alberto I mentioned in the other thread. My dentist swears by it.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness" - Mark Twain
Dufuses. Every last one of you.
http://www.goodhunting.info/showthre...highlight=knot
If we all threw our problems in a pile, and you saw everyone else's problems-- you'd take yours back.
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If we all threw our problems in a pile, and you saw everyone else's problems-- you'd take yours back.
Well no wonder we couldn't find it! I didn't know we had a fishing forum!
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness" - Mark Twain
i did an advanced search and found it.
Being the advanced sort of bastard that I am.
bKB
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