Knot Sure ?

[Adam_777]

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.

[Back Beach]

We just discussed this recently. Check out this link:
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...ad.php?t=46507

[Adam_777]

Thanks ! Wonder how I missed that one ...

[plankton]

I used to use a uni to uni knot to attach my running line (braid) to my leader (fluoro), but I found it failed too often, I think the double uni just took too much punishment going through the guides each cast. Now I tie a bimini at the end of the braid to make a nice double line and then attach my leader with an albright when using a conventional reel, or on spinning gear I'll use the simple method of running the double line through one end of a swivel and then passing the leader through the loop and pulling it tight so that both legs of the bimini stay even (cat's paw maybe, or is that just the tool that pulls nails?), then tie the leader to the other end of the swivel with a simple clinch knot. Since I've gone over to the bimini I've had no problems whatsoever, and if I get hung-up and need to bust off, the line always breaks at the clinch knot I use to tie the leader to the breakaway snap. Hope that's helpful, there's a bit of a learning curve involved with tying the bimini and the albright, but it's worth spending the time learning, I'd suggest buying a spool of inexpensive mono, maybe 20# test, and practicing with that until you get it right.