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You may not be having knot breaks...you may have a burr or sharp edge on the terminal tackle you tie to. This happened to me. I had a SPRO Heavy Duty swivel and it had a small ding or dent in the area where you tie and it would cut the PP every time. check your swivel.
There are a few new knots out there that work better for braid. There was on in the fisherman just a few weeks back that is pritty nice (don't know the name...sorry.)
The polamar is OK but I don't think it is the best for braid personally. And you can't use it on all connections.
The improved clinch with 10 turns works but it is a little bulky when chinched down some times
The 8-10 wrap uni-knot seems to work quite will. I really like uni's. They draw-down better and make a cleaner knot better then any knot I have ever seen.
I have suffered a few "mystery break-offs" with PP in the past. So far this year everything is holding. (except for that swivel problem)
I was watching a knot demo a couple months back with PP and when he pulled the 50# PP with his hands it broke....not at the knot but on the running line!
One thing about PP is that it is not as abrasion resistant as good mono. If you pull it between your two hands and scrup it against a rock under tension, it will break much sooner then any mono. Lots of comm guys will not use it for that reason.
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