New guy here and my first post (with a question)

I'm rubbish with knots and a good double Uni knot is actually too easy to tie!!  Once you have had a go at it a few times you will be away laughing!  I also reckon with braid direct to mono/fluro you feel a lot more and apparently the turning and twisting of the swivel can ruin the desire action you ate trying to achieve with the soft bait!

BBFisha wrote: I'm rubbish with knots and a good double Uni knot is actually too easy to tie!!  Once you have had a go at it a few times you will be away laughing!  I also reckon with braid direct to mono/fluro you feel a lot more and apparently the turning and twisting of the swivel can ruin the desire action you ate trying to achieve with the soft bait!

the knot I tie takes 23seconds last time I timed it....that includes cutting the trace off the spool and trimming tag ends....never failed....only 1 knot

with a swivel I'll be tieing 2......it will be bulky and unnecessary

the ability to wind the trace on the reel is a good thing.

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trickytune wrote: BA can you enlighten more please. I use a modified albright and find it fast and strong just a tad bulky. :ooking for slimmer but still fast. Ya

thgis from the albright thread hope it helps, it sure does me.

doubles in braid are as simple as an spiders hitch, why be different to what has been used for years,
bimini is more for your game fishing, a bimini is designed to stretch and act like a spring so there is no real presure of the twist pulling up, now how much spring is there in braid.....

Ok the double is made in the braid, now I dont make a double as such, in other words I just fold it and hello theres a double is it not.

I then do the exact same with the mono, now take the braid and go through the loop of the mono......
wind the braid around the mono [both strands] do it about 6 times you are working your way back up the mono......
now take the end of the braid [where its folded over] and go back to the end [loop] of the mono and go through it the opposite to how you went through at the start,

wet it out and then pull it up holding both doubles [which are not doubles] she all pulls up nice
now when its all up and neat trim her up, it goes through the guides no worries at all
braid is a real arse as its so thin to get it pulled up nice ....

I have never had one break I use this for tieing real heavy leader i.e 400lb to 80lb mono it works very well indeed, infact I have shown a few on here how to use it and they have not gone back to b/s back to back knots, not that they dont work, this so much easier
anyways like I said have never had one part you just got to be paitient with them and when your onto it takes less then 30seconds to tie one off.

swivels greatly affect the presentation of the lure when your working it, and also add as an attractant to coutas...   i use the improved allbright know most of the time - or other wise a back to back uni tied in a doubled braid end. (done with a blimini twist).

easy as, and much better than buggering around a swivel

Snapper Shagger wrote: Kezza wrote: the knot I tie takes 23seconds last time I timed it....that includes cutting the trace off the spool and trimming tag ends....never failed....only 1 knot with a swivel I'll be tieing 2......it will be bulky and unnecessary the ability to wind the trace on the reel is a good thing. What knot do you use.

i use the same knot as well so easy to tie and flow's threw the guides mint

The knot used by Kezza & BA looks like a Yucatan.  Its a good looking slim knot, but I used to tie it after making a loop on the end of the braid with a spider hitch or 5-turn surgeon's loop knot.  The Yucatan rarely let me down, but the loop knots often failed.  After reading some stuff about a guy up in Warkworth who has a knot-testing machine, I've changed to a 5-turn surgeon's loop after doubling the braid, but no loop in the braid.  Suits me fine, & is quick to tie.