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Braid knot caution.
A while back Mike from M&D shared the idea of using braid for tie off material on wraps on rods. So I made a bunch of them and hung them on a nail on my rod wrapping bench for future use.The things work great and hold up for a long while---as long as you use them.I decided to take some down and use the ones that I tied up 2 yrs ago. Every single one of the knots had come undone. 12 well tied knots creating tie off loops and all were untied.The reason I mention this is that I checked out a shimano 700 that I rigged 2 yrs back and found that the connecting knot between the braid and mono was loose. We all don't check our knot connections on the spools every year as we tie good dependable knots. But braid does have the tendancy to come untied as we all have found out at one time or other the hard way.So I'm posting this just as a thought of something to check on our reels to make sure that we don't loose that fish of a lifetime to something we don't think about all the time.I'm now in the process of checking all my braid connections to be safe just incase it wasn;t my stupidity. Ron
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