What is your favorite fishing knot???

I found the site below googling for more fishing knowledge… my favorite knot is still the improved clinch

http://www.animatedknots.com/indexfishing.php

Clinch Knot

I’ve been using the Palomar knot for many years. It’s quick and easy and does not seem to fail on braid, flouro (Vanish) or mono.

It’s quick and easy.

Palomar here.

I use the Palomar 99% of the time.

I’m with lawrence, use the improved cinch 99% of the time.

I use the improved clinch only with the line doubled. It does very well even on the braids.

Clinch for mono to jigs.
Palomar for hardlines.
Snell for livebait rigs.
Double surgeon for connecting lines like leadcore to leaders.

palomar 98% of the time, improved clinch the other 2%.

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Clinch for mono to jigs.
Palomar for hardlines.
Snell for livebait rigs.
Double surgeon for connecting lines like leadcore to leaders.

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All depends on what I’m doing but in general, its similar to what Deans doing.

I’d say I use the clinch *most* of the time mostly because I can tie it the fastest. For connecting lines I use the double uni knot. I used to use the blood knot but this knot seems to be much stronger. The key that I have found for either of these knots is with mono or fluorocarbon you should wet the line before you tighten them down, otherwise the friction can fray the line a little.

Great question! I like the palomar knot. Fast to tie and a tough knot. Not too familiar with the clinch, I’ll have to learn that one. Not a fan of the trilene knot, I feel it loosens too easily.

if I am worm fishing.. an ARKANSAS knot..

for crankbaits and spinnerbaits, a palomar..

for bass jigs, its a knot that Lonnie Stanley showed how to tie on TV about 15 years ago.. maybe 20 years ago.. were you pass the line twice through the jig eye.. and put the loop behind the eye toward the skirt.. and then tie a “clinch” with the rest..

this causes the jig to “jump” over the tree limbs instead of hanging up..

Hi Lawrence,

I use the Trilene knot for most baits on mono – one of strongest knots there is, it’s fast to tie, and is easier to tie with large baits like spinnerbaits than using a Palomar.

Palomar for jigs on mono, and also for tieing braid.

Uni-knot for line to line connections.

These three take care of 99.9% of the knots that I need.

Dan

OLD RAT I use the last knot you mentioned for musky… yur right it works great.

Nice link, Thanks!
I now have another knot to use when attaching the line to the arbor of a reel. I usually just used a loop knot so it tightened when reeling.

My main 2 knots are Trilene knot for mono and Polomar for super line.

Ferny.

while spooling up with power pro one day I happen to read the instructions. now every time I use a braid I tie the uni-knot. I pull cranks about 90% of the time after ice-out and I can tell you that knot is TWICE as strong as a palomar when useing braid.

Dobber

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Clinch for mono to jigs.
Palomar for hardlines.
Snell for livebait rigs.
Double surgeon for connecting lines like leadcore to leaders.

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What he said.

An 8 loop clinch knot is stronger than an improved clinch. Buy up to 30% stronger for any mono in the 6-10 pound range. I’ve done 100’s of break tests and the clinch will always come out ahead.

(A clinch knot stops at step 7 in that link)

Polymere for any braid or fused line.

-J.

deja vu

Palomar is quick and holds 90+%, hard to beat that with super lines. I use trilene knot for mono. The main thing is to tie it correctly. If you can’t tie it 100%, it will break too easy. Practice, so you can tie it easily before your out in the boat.

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Clinch for mono to jigs.
Palomar for hardlines.

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hooks = snelled
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jigs cranks and spinners
mono = clinch
braid = polimer
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line to line
double uni-knot
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