Tying mono leaders to FireLine?

[windycity]

Can anybody recommend a knot for accomplishing this??

[Deitz Dittrich]

I have always used a blood knot...

takes a little practice, and it sometimes feels like you dont have enough fingers.. but its what works best in my opinion...

[windycity]

Thanks, I briefly tried using clinch knots and the fireline cut the mono on consecutive hard pike hits. Don't want to lose any more fish in a trial-and-error search, so if your experience is that blood knots hold, I'll definitely give them a try.

[loebs93]

I use a uni to uni knot when I attach two lines of similar diameter to each other. I have had good luck so far with it and it seems super strong. Plus its relativly easy to tie.

1)  Overlap about 12 inches of the ends of two lines.  Form a Uni-Knot circle with the tag end of line "A."

2)  Wrap line "A" five times to form a Uni-Knot around line "B."  

[delmuts]

wind. be certain to wet the lines when tying the knots !

[Wayne Ek]

Windy, I have been using the uni to uni knot for a couple of years now, and have yet to break off at the knot, if I break off, it is usually at the hook/lure. Make sure to wet both lines, before you snug them up. Once they are smugged up and the ends clipped off, I dab the knot with fishing glue, I feel this adds durability to the knot, and also holds the clipped ends down to the main lines so they do not catch trash (skum/algae)

[buzbunni]

Quote:

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and it sometimes feels like you dont have enough fingers...

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. No doubt. That's exactly how I feel.

Funny Exude.

[windycity]

Thanks for all the response, I'll give them all a try.

[Guest]

Just one thing to remember....Fireline, and other superlines, are pretty much zero stretch. All of your stress and stretching will take place in the mono leader. Just something to be aware of. I used to tie on mono leaders, but learned my lesson on having big fish break off. Just an FYI is all....

[Dan Wood]

I used to fish fluoro leaders with braid and had a problem with break offs as well (the problem wasn't at the knot).. I don't know if you can call it a real problem, but it happened once or twice and that was too much.. Maybe just a matter of changing up your hook set, but I gave it up. I now use mainly fluor on the entire reel instead of just the leader. I still use braid for the thick stuff - and lighter braid on spinning rods (without leader).

I like the sensitivity on braid, so I may look at going back to this in the future. Fluoro they say is low stretch, but from tests I've seen it is much closer to mono than any braid...

[Guest]

Hey Dan, what pound test floro do you normally use when you go straight floro?

If I'm fishing buzzbaits or spinnerbaits I go straight Super Braid...7'MH rod and 80lb test!!...I just dare ya to try to get off in those pads you big bass!!! ....er er er more power!!!

[Deitz Dittrich]

I run straight flro on my c-rig rod... 14 lb test tom... I do use power pro on many of my flipping sticks.. 50 lb..

[Guest]

Thats what I was thinking...14 lb...at least that's what I bought!!...LOL

[Dan Wood]

I normally use 15 lb. - Pline and Seaguar. I'm always trying different lines, but the 15 lb. diameter range seems to handle pretty good..

[Wayne Ek]

Dan, most of the break offs are because I get lazy about re-tying after a few fish or a toothy critter. I use braid to fluoro/mono on, jig worm rigs, c-rigs, drop shot rigs and deep water dead stick rigs, also any walleye jig rig. I've gone to straight fluoro on my worm rod, cranking rod and jerk bait rod. All the other rods are now braid. Have you tried the new (ok 2 years old) stren braid, I have used power pro for years, but have been very impressed with stren's braid. 43 degree as I type this... boy I wish it was the end of March rather than the beginning of Feb.

[Dan Wood]

Wayne,

I tried the 40 lb. stren braid last year. I think I still prefer the PowerPro, but they are pretty similar.

I do still use braid for c-rigging and I use it for many hard baits still without a leader. For lighter presentations on a baitcaster, I don't care for the way the heavy braid comes off the reel. Maybe it's just me, but I have a lot better luck with the same diameter equivalent in mono or fluoro. I miss the sensitivity though on braid.

[Wayne Ek]

Hate to do it to you Dan... but, I'm sitting on the shady side of the house and the thermometer is reading 46. I think it's time to run out on one of these smaller Alexandria lakes and beat-up on the panfish... I know they are not bass... but they are fish.

[Guest]

All I have been using the last 2 seasons has been Stren Super Braid. The stuff looks like the day I put it on and that was 2 years ago. Very impressed with it and not a single break-off yet.

[river rat316]

Do you guys use flouro on spinning outfits? was thinking of switching to this on my dropshot rod and spooling one of the other spools on a rod that I use for finesse presentations and lighter cranckbaits and topwaters ( i wouldnt use it for the topwaters but since it sinks I would think you would be able to get some of them smaller cranks I use for smallies down farther?

[Wayne Ek]

Tom, I was in the Alexandria fleet farm this past week and in the clearance bins they have fireline and stren braid. I

was discounted (stren) down to 12 bucks, the only line weights available are 40,65 and 85. I would guess the other Mills stores have also started to put out the discount bins