FG/Sieble knot

[SAUERKRAUT]

I started using this FG knot. The knot profile is the thinnest yet; therefore, it is the best knot casting through the guides that I have ever tied. However, I tie the knot as taught a year ago in Sportfishing Mag publication: The leader mono is not widened by burning. Instead, it is ended in a beveling "Samos slice" with a razor or a scalpel. Then the row of half hitches easily and seamlessly cover the mono taper at the mono tag end.

Interesting, your video showing the instructor setting up three separate rows of 8-wrap Chinese fingers. I only use one row of about a dozen, then Samos slice bevel the mono tag and run the row of half hitches. Good for a 41.5 lb. bass so far, and more recently, ten thousand fishless Canal power casts.

I still need a reliable backup knot in my technical quiver for rerigging under so-called "field" conditions, such as at night and your are tying by headlamp on some miserable pile of rocks while your buddy's (usually the Numbskull's) drag is ZZZZing with his third hookup in a row. Then I'll use a quick Slim Jim.

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by SAUERKRAUT

Good for a 41.5 lb. bass so far, and more recently, ten thousand fishless Canal power casts.

If you call what you're doing in the canal a "power cast" then it is time to double your Viagra dose.

[Mr. Sandman]

I don't see me tying that knot in the dark knee deep in the suds after a break-off...ever.

I like the low profile but I'll stick to my double uni and keep the knot outside of the guides.

If I wanted a long low profile leader, I think I would rather have the hollow core braid and skip the knot all together, they now make it down to 40# test I think.