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02-27-2013, 10:48 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Taunton
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Snell or Palomar
For whatever reason I tend to palomar eel hooks and snell chunking hooks. I use the same hook, Gami Octopus - 7/0 for eel, 10/0 for chunks. What do you prefer, and why? I can tie both in the dark, and have had equal success with both.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway
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02-28-2013, 02:56 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Circlehook
For whatever reason I tend to palomar eel hooks and snell chunking hooks. I use the same hook, Gami Octopus - 7/0 for eel, 10/0 for chunks. What do you prefer, and why? I can tie both in the dark, and have had equal success with both.
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I don't chunk. I don't snell. I use an improved clinch knot for 99% of my tying. Only exception would be an Albright knot for line to leader on conventionals. |
No boat, back in the suds.  
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02-28-2013, 05:59 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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Palomar and Improved Clinch are pretty much all I use.
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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02-28-2013, 06:49 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 450
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You cant horse à green big bass so let her run then stick thé gaff in her  like thé Old timers use to.
5 wraps and then cinch it .
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02-28-2013, 07:08 AM
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Great White Scup Hunter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the Corner...
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Certain hooks are designed to be snelled. Bent eye snell straight eye palomar. other than that it's a preference and what works for you.
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02-28-2013, 07:18 AM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GattaFish
Certain hooks are designed to be snelled. Bent eye snell straight eye palomar. other than that it's a preference and what works for you.
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X2 |
 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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02-28-2013, 12:39 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GattaFish
Certain hooks are designed to be snelled. Bent eye snell straight eye palomar. other than that it's a preference and what works for you.
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put me in this category mostly for the same reason... i cast and troll my eels... thus snelling keeps them tracking straight... |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
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02-28-2013, 10:02 PM
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Work hard. Fish harder.
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 764
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GattaFish
Certain hooks are designed to be snelled. Bent eye snell straight eye palomar. other than that it's a preference and what works for you.
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Words of wisdom. ;-) |
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02-28-2013, 07:52 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
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Hi I'm Vic and I'm a sneller |
Domination takes full concentration..
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02-28-2013, 08:06 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 343
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snell
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02-28-2013, 08:10 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Playin' in the Dark
Posts: 2,407
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inproved clinch with lami live bait hook (straight eye)
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"Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker" - Van Helsing
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02-28-2013, 08:33 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clogston29
inproved clinch with lami live bait hook (straight eye)
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 .....Improved Clinch for the Hook and the Swivel....tie it to my main line with a palomar |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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02-28-2013, 09:53 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Improved clinch for everything! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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02-28-2013, 10:52 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2012
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Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device. Snell gami octopus for chunking. Improved clinch gami live bait for eels
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02-28-2013, 10:57 AM
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Idiot
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Glastonbury, CT
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I snell for hooks that I am tying a leader to. Otherwise I TA clip an eel hook to my plugging leader :-D
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02-28-2013, 11:04 AM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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palomar on everything I do except like Piemma said, albright for line to line...
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02-28-2013, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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That is a hook I would snell. Bent eye....
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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02-28-2013, 11:53 AM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Granny's work for me.
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02-28-2013, 12:28 PM
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Land OF Forgotten Toys
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Central MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MAKAI
Granny's work for me.
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Only with superglue though
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I am the man in the Bassless Chaps
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03-01-2013, 04:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MAKAI
Granny's work for me.
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Please keep you love life out of this. 
I prefer a snell, but I can't tie on quickly or at all in the dark, so I use a palomar most of the time. |
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03-02-2013, 03:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Snell - but will also use the Uni-knot system for a wide variety of other needs.
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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02-28-2013, 12:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Fall River
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OCTOPUS STYLE = SNELL
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rather be fishin'
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02-28-2013, 12:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bethany CT
Posts: 2,883
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I really only chunk for drum, but when I do I snell. I have read enough to convince me that there is a higher hook up rate for whatever reason. I don't eel much, but if I am tying heavy mono, I palomar or regular clinch. Assuming the others are using heavy mono, I am suprised to see so many improved clinchers. My understanding is that the improved is uneccessary and maybe counterproductive with heavy mono.
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No, no, no. we’re 30… 30, three zero.
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02-28-2013, 12:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 1,748
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Palomar 99% of the time, easy to tie and most important to me is it goes thru the eye of the hook twice.
Yes as others have stated bend eyed hooks are pretty much made to snell.
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Jon, 24' Nauset-Green Topsides, Beamie, North River. Channel 68/69. MSBA, NIBA
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02-28-2013, 01:11 PM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
Posts: 669
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I just use an old piece of gum to hold my line to my hook  |
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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02-28-2013, 01:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Cape Cod, MA
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I snell my hooks, but I would think the Palomar knot would be equally as successful. I wouldn't give it a second thought.
I use improved clinch knots from leader to snap or clip and palomar for braid to swivel.
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02-28-2013, 05:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: New Haven
Posts: 1,267
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I don't chunk. My eel hooks just get put on a breakaway clip
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02-28-2013, 07:57 PM
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$$
Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Taunton
Posts: 658
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Quote:
Originally Posted by striperswiper75
I don't chunk. My eel hooks just get put on a breakaway clip
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I don't think I could trust the hookset having my hook on a clip?
I can snell a hook without using the eye hole at all, I guess I am curious which is a stronger knot. I have always heard the palomar is a stronger knot, but never had an issue with a snell.
There is a certain spot I plan on chunking the hell out of this year, and getting ready to tie leaders.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway
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02-28-2013, 08:28 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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i once had a Palomar knot fail me
somehow it unraveled 
not sure if i tied it wrong from fatigue or what
but now after tying a Palomar
i back it up with a clinch knot
this makes the "tag end" stick straight out
and its easier to clip off
plus it's allot harder to clip the wrong line |
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02-28-2013, 07:12 PM
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fishing the pacific
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Port Townsend, WA
Posts: 993
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I here I am using duct tape for all of these years. I have never heard of these knots you speak of.
the duct tape works fine, until I get a strike - then I tend to loose a lot of hooks |
Keep lines wet and tight in the pacific
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