Quote Originally Posted by slowhand View Post
I have purchased some braid from P-Line that is 8 strand coated with Teflon. I can get the braid to tie to itself using a Palomar or a Trilene braid knot, but cannot get a knot to hold to a Flouro leader. Have used surgeons, double surgeons, unit, double unit and Alberto knots. Anyone have any success that they can pass along?
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Yesterday I floated a creek and brought three rods. One had fresh braid in it and the other two had braid on it from this summer. As usual, I tied new fluorocarbon leaders to all the main line braids with FG knots. The fresh braid held the FG knot all day. The two rods with older braided FG knots slipped right away, even though they were 40 turn knots. I think as braid ages from UV exposure, the FG knot starts to slip. I retired these two with FG knots again and the same thing happened. So I just decided to tie the leaders on with a triple surgeons knot and they were split the rest of the day. So the bottom line (no pun intended) is that a triple surgeons not may be just fine for attaching braid to fluorocarbon. The knot was a little larger in diameter but still cast well.


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