wind knots?

Since these are my specialty, i was wondering: is it true that they can reduce the leader/tippet strenght up to 50 percent???

If this is true, then how come I can tie a five turn uni knot at the end and retain 90 percent?

[Jeremy]

1.) Yes.
2.) 'Cause it doesn't cut into itself.

See the "Knots" info. It's all there. It is.

[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/begin/knots2/111201index.html:53484]http://www.flyanglersonline.com/begin/knots2/111201index.html[/url:53484]

(If) you can't find it Google up something about knots. It's all there too.

Jeremy.

[This message has been edited by Jeremy (edited 13 February 2006).]

[nav63]

Anthony, on a good day I can get the wind to tie me a clove hitch with a double becket bend finished with a bowlin....aye matey.....snicker, helps if I can get a trout to cinch it all tight for me, hehe

[Linemender]

Wind knots are passe. It takes a real angler to tye a Zweber.

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Cary Morlan

Living my dreams one day at a time

[ducksterman]

That's great, JC.....it reminds me of one of my son's first fly fishing days....windy steelhead day and I swear...in the time I quickly tied on my fly and went a few yards up stream to check on him he had created an exact replica of that drawing....I couldn't see how it possibly could have been created in such a short time....we still talk about it and I wish I had saved it and mounted it.

[gadabout]

A wind knot often takes the form of an overhand knot. An overhand knot can reduce the strength of the leader section where it ends up by 50% because the knot literally "chokes" itself. However that does not mean that it reduces the strengh of your leader by 50%. Why? Let's say the knot falls in a section of leader that is 10# test and your tippet is 3# test. The 10# section got reduced to 5# by the knot, but it's still stronger than your tippet.