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typhoon

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Re: Knot advice
« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2011, 12:01:18 PM »
If you are losing fish due to an improved clinch knot then either you are not tying it properly, you are using too light of leader, or you are horsing the fish beyond what is necessary.
Changing the knot from 95% to 100% strength strength will not help you.
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BCfisherman97

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Re: Knot advice
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2011, 06:38:47 PM »
Quote from: HOOK on November 24, 2011, 01:01:24 AM
BC - you just descibed the Clinch knot. thats the knot i use because it hardly fails compared to an improved clinch which tends to get weakened when pulled tight. I also normally use 5-8 wraps because i have found that less can continue to pull through unless you leave a decent tag end.

if I'm tying a swivel then my larger diameter line will get a Palomer knot and the thinner line a Clinch and only because you cant do a Palomer knot when its already attached to something so the Clinch it is and if your hook is stuck then it will always break on the Clinch knot side of the swivel.

I knew someone would say the clinch knot! Ahahaha but I did not mean the clinch knot. I was not talking about wrapping the line around the mainline, but making three rings then slipping the line through all three. I will try and get a few pictures on tomorrow or Saturday of the knot I am talking about. Thanks for the clarification HOOK.

Cheers
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1son

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Re: Knot advice
« Reply #17 on: November 24, 2011, 07:33:04 PM »
I went from improved clinch knot to trilene this season and it works awesome I like it better Ohh and this site is great discovered it last year I know somebody had already posted but yeah X2

http://www.steelheadstalkers.com/video_knots.htm
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Matt

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Re: Knot advice
« Reply #18 on: November 25, 2011, 12:27:29 AM »
Improved clinch for everything but the fly-to-leader connection, then usually a non-slip loop  http://www.netknots.com/html/non_slip_loop_knot.html
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fish fishburn

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Re: Knot advice
« Reply #19 on: December 08, 2011, 05:04:23 AM »
I use the Polomar for most applications because it seems to work the best for me as far as knot strength goes. Just remember to tie you mainline first then the top of your leader next and the business end last and you can use the Polomar for everything. When tying two lines together I use the double uni knot, but prefer a tiny black Sampo swivel to connect my leader to mainline.
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