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Wow, reading that confuses me.

 

The FG is well known for being a dentists freind,I guess this applies to any friction knot where teeth are used to get heaps of tension.

 

As has been said to stop any knot coming undone or loosening the number of turns to finish and tension is the key.The braid should almost change color,or appear waxy with correct tension - well mine do? 

 

 

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As for the FG it is my go to for popping and jigging and has been for a good while now..never had a knot failure,even when my jig has anchored me to the sea floor it does not break at the knot.

 

I find the very first half hitch on the FG important in terms of how my know will turn out,this is pulled tight until the braid looks "waxy".

 

Then I trim the leader material to about 1cm and bend do the the first half hitch onto the braid is very snug against the leader..then carry on with alternate half hitchs until your ready to finish.

Going bag to the leader tag,I trim shorter and burn it,then flatten it off into a low profile mushroom.

 

I finsh two ways (tying this knot ) - the first is doing a big half hitch roudy type knot through itself 5-7 times and gently stroked back onto the half hitches and pulled very,very tight.

The second as is my dear SJ explains using a pieice of thin mono or braid,I use this for fly tieing - I do this way when I am prepping on land or in fairy tale type sea states.

 

Will do.

 

Might add I have 3 popper set ups and live 11 degrees below the equator, and chase the " fish of a thousand casts" I have yet to have any issues with this knot unravelling, on the PE10 PE 6 or PE3 set ups, havent resorted to using superglue or Maverics or UV wader glue to hold the knot together. 7 turns or more is the key.

Pretty much doing what you are doing there mate...I use a 4 metre leader for the bricks and boat....maybe i dont get massive distance but i like having the longer leader,,,use the varivas 130 leader  like you do and the one inch pr with the last 3 half hitches done up like you mean them!(PR up and down equally) with a dab of maverick bond....If its good enough for "accident prone",its good enough for me.,,,,been using varivas avani gt pe6.

           I was finding with that finishing knot....it got irritated through the day and would unravel from hitting the guides....not an issue with jigging as you point the rod straight down and then it moves over guides while fighting.

I have used this knot and it has come undone twice.....if you put a dab of maverick bond on it...then i am sure it would stay put...It came undone after casting all day mind.....Just watch out for it mate

Get rid of the wind-ons. All good in theory but not ideal for casting as they're way to long in the join and they cause friction when casting, plus you'll save money. Most wind-ons are around 10m so you end up cutting most of it off anyway.

Stick with FG's for casting and PR's for jigging. 

Once you master the FG you'll be doing them quicker than it takes you to feed braid onto a bobbin. Nice small tidy knot which honks through your guides with no catching.