Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

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Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

FG Knot
29
38%
Uni to Uni / Double Uni
13
17%
Troop / Blood Knot
1
1%
Albright
5
7%
Alberto / Improved Albright
26
34%
Lazy Alberto
2
3%
Midnight
0
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Total votes: 76

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by Dalleinf » Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:35 am

jvelth74 wrote:
Tue Aug 02, 2022 6:22 am
Dalleinf wrote:
Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:06 am
Do not use leaders often and double uni suffice for now. Would appreciate a very easy and strong small knot that sails through guides, but I have not seen one yet.
Try melting-knot:
Thx. I have used it for pike leaders. Does it work with thinner line for trout and seatrout?

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by jvelth74 » Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:42 am

I haven't used it much. But surely it weakens FC.

Currently I tie FC knots at my home and store those to Minigrips. In a fishing just tie those my double Uni to my main line.

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by bobmatsuoka » Mon Aug 22, 2022 8:11 am

Cal wrote:
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Midnight is my favorite. More slim amd stronger than others when tied correctly.
Looked it up and added it to the poll. Side comment, if you're going to go through the effort to tie a midnight knot, you might want to consider using hollow braid ;)

Sorry. I haven't sent it. Very busy and I forgot.
Last week I received a spool of line I have purchased to try, and it came with a knot manual. I'm attaching it. See the strenght %.

The link below is from a friend of mine, tying his version of midnight. He is a brazilian fishing guide. Sorry that it is in portuguese. He says in the end, that a final tight is needed to finalize the knot. The vídeo doesn't show it.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfHZn2OP ... MyMTA2M2Y=

Hope that it help someone.
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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by Junk Fisherman » Mon Sep 05, 2022 6:46 am

I've gone back to Alberto after going through Seider's recommended doubled Alberto, the Seaguar Knot, and the FG Knot. The Alberto is easy to tie, small enough, and is STRONG.

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by Stump jumper » Sun Nov 13, 2022 3:08 pm

No one ever seems to talk about a J knot. It’s hard to tie with a long leader, but I only have to do it once. It easily lasts a full day of tournament fishing, and I’m talking Great Lakes/St Clair smallmouth fishing…. Where you catch a LOT in a day and big ones too.

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by American Esox » Sun Dec 04, 2022 5:23 am

Modified alberto knot https://youtu.be/roHMWeL9yCQ

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by Chasing Brown » Sat Dec 10, 2022 9:36 am

American Esox wrote:
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Modified alberto knot https://youtu.be/roHMWeL9yCQ
Thanks. I’ll try that finish.

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by American Esox » Sun Dec 11, 2022 5:30 am

Chasing Brown wrote:
Sat Dec 10, 2022 9:36 am
American Esox wrote:
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Modified alberto knot https://youtu.be/roHMWeL9yCQ
Thanks. I’ll try that finish.
What did you think

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by jvelth74 » Sun May 28, 2023 7:55 am

I have been using Seiko Knot Assist Tool for FG knot. But it twist severely braided, so lastly I have been made FG's without tool:
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similar than hi does in his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQmUN0L4F6c

In my use FG knots assist tool does not make knot any faster, but now I'm thinkin might it do knot actually better or worse...

So it creates twist to braid. Twist might not do braided stronger, or might it? Sure it makes braided to tighter package, which is usually good. But my FG's has usually failed by FC elognation. So it's FC that fails. Might non-twisted 'soft' touch of braided better than twisted 'hard' touch?
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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by hoohoorjoo » Sun May 28, 2023 12:58 pm

I use uni to uni. Unless your guides are micros, it passes just fine. Also, I don't reel it onto the reel spool. My knot stops just outside the line guide.
Try not to let your mind wander. It is much too small to be outside unsupervised.

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by jvelth74 » Sun May 28, 2023 1:42 pm

hoohoorjoo wrote:
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I use uni to uni. Unless your guides are micros, it passes just fine. Also, I don't reel it onto the reel spool. My knot stops just outside the line guide.
Last time I let fluoro free end 1 mm too long (FG knot) and it stuck my top guide and rod got broken. Uni to uni is always at least that bad.

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by hoohoorjoo » Tue May 30, 2023 7:45 am

jvelth74 wrote:
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I use uni to uni. Unless your guides are micros, it passes just fine. Also, I don't reel it onto the reel spool. My knot stops just outside the line guide.
Last time I let fluoro free end 1 mm too long (FG knot) and it stuck my top guide and rod got broken. Uni to uni is always at least that bad.
Wow, that sucks! I dont use flouro. Mono or copolymer is always easier on the guides. I've never damaged a rod or a guide in the last15-20 years that I have used braid + leader. You can cut the tag end of the knot very short IF you use a dab of gel super glue, which is what I do. I've also never had a knot fail when using this method.
Try not to let your mind wander. It is much too small to be outside unsupervised.

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by jvelth74 » Tue May 30, 2023 11:37 am

It was human error. I was hurry to go to river to test my new lightest rod with smallest guides and it was definitely not to recommended to use strong FC leader in it, and my knot was bad that time, but I went to testing anyway. In first cast it stuck. After second cast I noticed that I don't have top guide anymore. But it didn't ruined total that rod. It shortened only half inch. I have used it. It's strange rod anyway. Kuying TTC, trout magnet rod.

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by Drakestar » Tue May 30, 2023 1:38 pm

hoohoorjoo wrote:
Sun May 28, 2023 12:58 pm
I use uni to uni. Unless your guides are micros, it passes just fine. Also, I don't reel it onto the reel spool. My knot stops just outside the line guide.
I do reel it onto the spool (at least on occasion), and that's where FG works much better for Daiwa TW reels. Otherwise I'd be happy with uni-to-uni, as well.

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Re: Braid to Leader - what's your knot of choice?

Post by oops » Sun Jun 04, 2023 1:33 pm

RP knot which afaik is just the Alberto. 5 up and down.


In my personal fishing using from 3 to 80lb braid and from 2 to 30lb fluoro and mono, this knot covers it all. Fast and easy to tie in windy conditions, casts through anything but JDM UL rod super duper micro guides easily. My knot has never failed me on a fish. If your knot fails you, you tied a bad knot

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