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schoolie monster · 08-03-2004, 01:41 PM

Patrick, I've had terrible luck with the clinch knot with braid (15-30lb)... do you do the standard 6 wraps?

I will try the uni with more wraps too, cause I use the palomar and it works great, but its a pain to tie sometimes, for example, with a premade teaser rig or sabiki rig. A uni or clinch is easier out on the boat.

Surely Bassey, another thing you might need to do is back off on your drag a bit. As someone said, there's no stretch, so that's alot of pressure on the line.

I use alot of braid on light tackle and heavy and rarely have breakoffs. And I fish heavy structure. I fish with a drag light enough to just pull on a strong hookset. That works well for me.

08-03-2004, 01:41 PM	#20
schoolie monster Registered User Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,195	Patrick, I've had terrible luck with the clinch knot with braid (15-30lb)... do you do the standard 6 wraps? I will try the uni with more wraps too, cause I use the palomar and it works great, but its a pain to tie sometimes, for example, with a premade teaser rig or sabiki rig. A uni or clinch is easier out on the boat. Surely Bassey, another thing you might need to do is back off on your drag a bit. As someone said, there's no stretch, so that's alot of pressure on the line. I use alot of braid on light tackle and heavy and rarely have breakoffs. And I fish heavy structure. I fish with a drag light enough to just pull on a strong hookset. That works well for me.