if you,re & night and need a quick knot or you,ve brake ur braid to ur leader Ill use a reverse albright or crazy alberto , no name knot.
If you,re popping ill go to a bimini twist for my loop to loop leader. However for jigging I,ve always tie a PR knot or a mid knot , this knots are 100% tested , they have to be pre tied before your trip thought. you can do them on the boat but its challenging.
check this link & also lots of good videos of it @ youtube.
http://www.jigsdirect.com/eMerchantPro/pc/fishing_knots.asp
Good Post Mad Marlin,
Reverse Albright, Bimini,
PR and Mid Knot... I Like'm all. In my opinion they are all easy to tie, just takes a minute longer maybe.. The mid knot takes the longest of the above mentioned. I save tying them off shore while we are running between spots.
(until I started pre tying PR's as I'll mention below) Not much Pizzzs me off fish'n more than havin a knot come untied. The last one was about a year ago, and it didnt come untied, it got abrasived and the mono split. (reverse albright/worm) Good knot, but if abrased in any way due to the wrap tensions, retie.
I have learned this. ALWAYS retie old knots for a new trip. Simply running them thru the guides casting or reelin 100 times a day will wear on the knot. Better to be safe than sorry...
I need to make a post of what Ive started do'n for a pre trip in regards to the PR.
Awe heck, this is good a place/time as any...
To make it plain and simple... I pre make the PR wrapped leaders and roll several of them up in coils... ready for quick attachment...
Its simply this....
1. you have the floro/mono size of your choice
2. the floro/mono has tied to it with a PR knot from Braid. I dont like using a single strand PR, I double the braid thru the bobbin of if its hollow core, I pull it back thru itself with a piece of tight bent steel leader to make a double strong single strand.
3. from there a few inchs away is the loop for the
loop to loop connection. At home while your watching a boring movie/TV show, tie you several up and place in a sandwich baggie.
Your set for quick reties..
In the pictures below, you will see this, one is tied with regular 80ish pound braid I just pulled off the rod and the other (blue) is 200# hollow core I had in my drawer I sometimes use for mak'in light line assist hooks....
This is one Ive already used and cut off to use again..
Yall know how it is, you get an invite to go on someone elses boat, your try and limit your self to 2 rods, but know you need more so you wont have to re rig all the time when you try for different species. Well, Lets say you have this rig on for jigg'n and all of a sudden a big ole ling comes by and you know you need to quickly cut everything off and simply tie a hook on it for a lively or some dead bait or for some special ling lure. to take off this PR knot leader, all you have to do is cut one side of the bimini close to the loop to loop and pull it thru. You have not messed up in anyway your special leader, you set it aside for later.. Plus you catch the ling of course :wink:....
Works good... One note tho. Even tho, the PR is wound real-real tight, I use a torch lighter and blunt the end and put a drop of zap/gorilla on that part. And lets face it, a Mid is nothing more than a hand tied PR and blunting the end and the drop of zap/gorilla glue in my opinion is a must.
Great knots tho for going thru guides and in strenght... I aint had one come unbutton'd yet (crossing my fingers)
And Bimini's.... Theres some good easy to learn youtubes out there...
Basically
1. Double arms lenght loop in the line
2. Twist it as much as you want. I like 24 turns... I think it gets brittle if ya go 50 or so
3. put the loop part over something
4. on the tag end, hold the main line with your little finger-ring finger and FU finger and hold the tail end at a 90 degree angle away from the main line with your pointing finger and thumb. I like to hold the tail end about a foot from the end
5. take your other hand and place it between the two braids at the loop thats secured off.
6. pull that finger thats between the braids up toward your hand holding the main line.
7 When its starts to squish down. I grab the tail with my loop hand and as i bring up the loop hand tighter, I let the tag end wrap back over the tight coils.
8. When its all the way over all the coils, I pinch off the overlap and I do a half hitch on one side of the loop line and then a half hitch on the other side and then another half hitch over them both.
9... I then tie a 12 wrap unit with the tag end. You can lube and work down snug. I do mine a bit more complicated than just snuggin the unit. instead of snuggin down the unit, I wrap the uni and then simply wrap the loop part of the uni over itself and when finish, I pull the tag and its a super smooth way to tie it off. That part is probably easier to understand if I would make a youtube or find a youtube of it.. Just practice. I can usually tie one in less than a minute.... and if I was in a race, maybe 30 seconds...haha
heres a basic drawing of what I just said except for the last part
I dont think the way I tied it is the best way, but, I like how it comes out...
If after all this long wordy reply (I get long winded sometimes) I had one thing to suggest to yall, it would be this. Get in the habit of torch blunting the ends and putting a drop of superglue, I like gorilla the best simply because the way the screw on top is made it keeps the hole open all the time. Braid is slow slick sometimes and especially if trying to tie to hard-slick-florocarbon leader that the super glue will keep things from slipping. JMO...
Sorry to be so long and wordy... Not trying to be a know-it-all, because Im not, I just like to talk knots... :spineyes: