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Adam_777 · 02-06-2008, 01:29 PM

Before this season I was tying braid to a snap using a palomar and it worked great.Why change a good thing right ? I got into some fish last year pretty good and found more than once reached for the braid bare handed and sliced my skin pretty good.I recently went to #^&#^&#^&#^&s grabbed a 300yd spool of Sufix performance braid 50# and 50yds of Ande Fluoro 40#.Figure if I get a hangup the fluoro will snap before the braid.I was testing different knots for joining line to leader.In my experiments I was using 50lb PP and the 40lb Fluoro.I found the PP braid breaking everytime before the fluoro.It seemed in my field test that Uni to Uni is a damn good knot.Held up better than most of the others I've tested.Still the PP breaks before the fluoro.The braid has never seen water it was removed from a reel that was overfilled by a tackle shop.I'm wondering if just a simple swivel connection would be better in general for using a leader .I may have a bad roll of PP on that spare spool.What setups do you guys use when atatching braid to fluoro ?What kind of knots are best for this ? I'm just bored so I'm tying knots and trying to tug the excersize bike around the room.

02-06-2008, 01:29 PM	#1
Adam_777 Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: N.K. Posts: 1,330	Knot Sure ? Before this season I was tying braid to a snap using a palomar and it worked great.Why change a good thing right ? I got into some fish last year pretty good and found more than once reached for the braid bare handed and sliced my skin pretty good.I recently went to #^&#^&#^&#^&s grabbed a 300yd spool of Sufix performance braid 50# and 50yds of Ande Fluoro 40#.Figure if I get a hangup the fluoro will snap before the braid.I was testing different knots for joining line to leader.In my experiments I was using 50lb PP and the 40lb Fluoro.I found the PP braid breaking everytime before the fluoro.It seemed in my field test that Uni to Uni is a damn good knot.Held up better than most of the others I've tested.Still the PP breaks before the fluoro.The braid has never seen water it was removed from a reel that was overfilled by a tackle shop.I'm wondering if just a simple swivel connection would be better in general for using a leader .I may have a bad roll of PP on that spare spool.What setups do you guys use when atatching braid to fluoro ?What kind of knots are best for this ? I'm just bored so I'm tying knots and trying to tug the excersize bike around the room.