A Regular figure eight knot is what I use for rock climbing. It had better not come undone. I havn't tied it any differant when fishing the few times I've used it and haven't had any issues.
Erich
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Nothing special, just your plain old run of the mill figure 8. It will hold though, I think it's because the wire doesn't slip like mono would.
Kevin
Sometimes I get the impression that my posts don't even show :confused:
dudley...I hear you.
I think repeating what has been said before is OK..maybe even desirable since it shows more support for the point.
I do think it is classy to give credit to the previous poster.
Dudly,
Didn't mean to step on any toes. I just didn't see your reference earlier to the figure 8. If I would have, I would have given credit where credit was due.
Sorry,
Kevin
Blame me; I acknowledged the knot but "knot" the original suggestion.
I'll be trying a figure 8 knot out the next time I go for Pickerel. If the knot fails I'll blame all of you!
Thanks again all for the suggestions!
I didn't mean to imply anything more than what I said.
"Sometimes I think my posts don't even show"
'booz'
Last Monday I caught a 35" chopper bluefish on the the rig as described
I guarantee it will hold any pickerel
To connect the wire to the mono leader I us a small, high quality black ball bearing swivel (I like the Spro brand) . Connect swivel to mono with a palomar knot. Connect wire to swivel with figure 8 knot. Connect wire to fly with a two turn non-slip loop knot, which works well with all of the knotable coated multi strand wire that I have tried.
I have used this for pike as well as toothy saltwater critters. I have gone through a week of 9 hour pike fishing days without ever needing to change the mono part of the leader.
Works great and I don't need to cut back the leader to change wire. The swivel does not interfere with casting. It also has the the benefit of preventing twists in the leader that may develop from casting some flies. Wire changes are much faster to accomplish. Don't use a silver swivel because sometimes fish will hit that instead of the fly and cut through the mono leader.