If so, what knots are you using?
If so, what knots are you using?
There have never in history been so many opportunities to do so many things that aren't worth doing. - William Gaddis
Clinch knot with mono - improved clinch with flourocarbon.
Palomar knot from main leader to tippet ring. Becker (Orvis) Knot from tippet to ring.
Using 4mm soldered round, 2.6mm inside diameter, 22 gauge rings, I can loop connect with 4-6x tippet material. My typical loops are tied with double surgeons knot. I suspect tippet size is governed by I.D. of tippet ring.
BTW I recently have noticed that whenever I must break free my snagged tippet, the break is usually within 2-3" of the connecting loop. Tippet material is mono and not fluorocarbon. Anyone else notice this?
Last edited by fritz; 07-02-2018 at 05:39 PM. Reason: added comment
I use tippet rings on just about all my leaders now. On some leaders I use two rings. I use mono on dry fly leaders and fluorocarbon on nymph leaders. In both cases, I use an improved clinch knot to tie to the ring. An improved clinch knot to a tippet ring should be about 90% strength. Joining tippet with a surgeon's knot is about 70% strength.
Use micro-swivels but same idea. Pitzen knots both sides, but there's no reason to change whatever you typically use for a terminal knot.
I use a Davy knot to tie on the fly - or a Double Davy for large flies - and while the knot works just fine it somehow didn't seem like enough knot for the rings. I guess that's kind of silly if I trust it for the fly, but adding two more of them seemed kinda scary. Being terribly lazy I normally don't even use a tippet; I just keep using the leader until it gets too short or too fat , which is dumb and I need to change that. Back when I did change tippets I used the Orvis tippet knot which I remember as being kind of a pain to tie.
There have never in history been so many opportunities to do so many things that aren't worth doing. - William Gaddis
I use an improved clinch knot then a drop of super glue (if I make my leaders at home). If I am on the water then just the improved clinch knot. I am using steelhead size tippet rings, they are a little bigger but work real good.