Who Is Tying The San Diego Knot?

[Haris122]

So far I've been exclusively using my own bastardized version of the improved clinch knot. Wouldn't surprise me much if that counteracts whatever part of it is improved. I told myself I'd learn more proffessional knots like the Palomar, but got lazy once I found out that this one works good enough not to get undone when a fish is added to the equation. The frequent times I get a snag that I can't undo, the line eventually breaks, but I still feel like the actual knot holds well enough to for a while. I do know it looks neater with braid, but I mainly just fish mono anyways.

[Kayser]

Pitzen knot on any larger hook sizes (2 and up), or to swivels. It's all I ever use for bass fishing and throwing streamers. Smaller than that, just a clinch. I'll use a snell for up- or down-turned eyes when using live bait. A blood knot for trout leader-tipper connection seems to work best, despite the difficulty (double surgeon's kept breaking with 6x and 7x).

And that's about it.

[Greasy B]

So far I've been exclusively using my own bastardized version of the improved clinch knot. Wouldn't surprise me much if that counteracts whatever part of it is improved. I told myself I'd learn more proffessional knots like the Palomar, but got lazy once I found out that this one works good enough not to get undone when a fish is added to the equation. The frequent times I get a snag that I can't undo, the line eventually breaks, but I still feel like the actual knot holds well enough to for a while. I do know it looks neater with braid, but I mainly just fish mono anyways.

I tied the perfection loop incorrectly for better than twenty years. It always held up but had a stupid crook at the end. It's taken me two years to break the habit and tie the knot correctly.

[SoMuchWater]

Good site for all kinds of knots if anyone is interested. Improved Clinch and Duncan my go too's

http://www.animatedknots.com/

[Unimog]

That's interesting, seems like Ive read other tests where the palomar was one of the worst knots to use with fluorocarbon. I remember Aaron martens saying he only ties the uniknot with fluorocarbon and he's pretty thorough!

[mixermarkb]

For what little it's worth I switched to the uni knot when I made the jump to fluoro years ago from having too many failures with an improved clinch. It seemed to really help, and I don't break off fish at the knot, even with 4 pound flouro and keeper Smallies...