Knot Strength

[MidTNKayakAngler]

I was in the garage last night getting gear ready for this evening. I have some new spools of BPS fluorocarbon that I spooled some spinning reels with 8lb, and 10lb for Hybrids. I tied on a 3/8 jig head to the 8lb and got out the bogas to test the knot and line just being courious. I used the Improved Clinch thourally wetted the line before tying it and was careful thru the entire process. I visually inspected the line and saw no defects and when I was testing with the Bogas the line broke at the knot with not even 4 lbs of pressure.

I then cut off about 5-8" of line and retied the same know and re-testing and this time I pulled to 8lbs, and no breakage. This is my second year of using the BPS 100% fluorocarbon and I've had no failures besides this one time. I was wondering if anyone else tests their knots or line that they use and if so how. I usually just tie the knot and give it a good secure pull.

Jeremy

[flyfisher]

I have never tested my knots but i pretty much always use the palomar whether using braid or mono/flouro.

If you have a smart phone there is the knotwars app which is pretty cool. Has videos of all the knots and their breaking strengths

[Turtle135]

I've never tested my knot strength before but that is an interesting result you got.

My first use of Fluoro was Berkley Vanish which I stopped using after I would regularly break the line at the knot with my typical hookset of a t-rigged plastic worm.