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?
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).]
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
Wind knots are passe. It takes a real angler to tye a Zweber.
Cary Morlan
Living my dreams one day at a time
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.
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.