Favorite knots

What’s everyone’s favorite knot?! I usually tie the Palomar knot but even that can be challenging when you can’t feel your fingers.

Palomar knot for me as well

tying in cold weather:
try this one

knot

Frenchman wrote:

Palomar knot for me as well

Me to

Palomar x 4

Trying to tie a micro jig on 2lb test in the wind with cold fingers, I make a “grypknot” with a tie-fast tool along with their smaller clippers that have a nice painted eye poker that’s nearly impossible to poke a finger. Tie-Fast tool

Gryp knot

Palomar or improved clinch. If the jig eye is tiny i’ll do an improved clinch just because I can tie it a little faster.

Palomar

Pat McSharry wrote:

Palomar or improved clinch. If the jig eye is tiny i’ll do an improved clinch just because I can tie it a little faster.

Exactly!

I like a uni-knot for small eyelets on little jigs.

I like the uni with a doubled line, super strong and holds the eye much tighter so when you swing and miss the jig doesn’t turn vertical. The second knot he demonstrates here- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=663V4Da-s-E

clinch on small ice jigs, Trilene on all others.

Pat McSharry wrote:

Palomar or improved clinch. If the jig eye is tiny i’ll do an improved clinch just because I can tie it a little faster.

X2

Then when I get home I like the balloon knot.

clinch, snell, been fooling around with that Alberto knot,

I really like the Alberto for connecting 2 lines.

Improved clinch for mono and fluorocarbon during ice and open-water. Double Palomar for straight braid in the summer. Double uni with 5 wraps each for joining bread to leader.

I’ve always made the argument that the ‘best’ knot is the one you’re most comfortable tying, and the one you can recognize most easily as being a bad knot.

I’m on the improved clinch and Palomar bandwagon myself. Both easy to tie and strong.

To be honest I pretty much use the uni-knot on everything.

uni-knot for braid, improved clinch knot for mono and flouro.