Posted 1/31/2015 7:59 AM (#751136) Subject: Best knot EVER!
Posts: 43
Location: Chicago
Wow, my brother tipped me about a great knot used by tuna fisherman...The San Diego Jam knot! Tied one yesterday and my jaw dropped. It locks down and will not budge. I've never seen a knot like it. Great on the all the super braids out there.
Incredible.
Posted 1/31/2015 3:21 PM (#751204 - in reply to #751199) Subject: Re: Best knot EVER!
Posts: 4266
I use a Uni-Knot for almost everything, so I tried doubling the line through the eye of a swivel on a leader and then tying a Uni-Knot with the lines doubled. Now I use a double Uni-Knot for every braid and superline connection that I make. Try it sometime. If you use a Uni-Knot, double up the line and tie it. You have one extra line to cut at the end, but the extra bulk really helps to lock that knot down. I've never seen anything about a knot like that, so I guess that I invented the Double Uni-Knot.
Posted 1/31/2015 7:13 PM (#751252 - in reply to #751136) Subject: Re: Best knot EVER!
Posts: 457
Location: Minneconia
I agree the San Diego Jam is the best knot ever...more versatile than the Palomar in my opinion. I use the Palomar with my musky braid as its a quicker tie and braid is forgiving as far as knot tying goes, but any mono or fluorocarbon gets the SDJ.
Posted 2/1/2015 7:33 AM (#751288 - in reply to #751136) Subject: RE: Best knot EVER!
I use the fishing fool as well. For whatever reason, I find it easy to tie and when the North American Fisherman show put it to the test, it was the strongest knot with braid.
Posted 2/1/2015 8:50 PM (#751431 - in reply to #751221) Subject: Re: Best knot EVER!
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Jeremy, that's because I taught it to you the first time I came to Vermillion. :-0
I started tying it after I tried it because some saltwater guys were tying knots and talking about the importance of building bulk in a knot.
AND...I never read your post or I wouldn't have written mine. I must have been typing mine while you were posting yours.
Posted 2/1/2015 8:52 PM (#751432 - in reply to #751396) Subject: Re: Best knot EVER!
Posts: 1202
Location: Walker, MN
The palomar is a double line knot but I think it's weakness is that it can slip a bit. I tie a palomar and then finish it with apposing half hitches. Some times this tag unravels but usually not.
Posted 2/2/2015 8:27 AM (#751485 - in reply to #751136) Subject: Re: Best knot EVER!
Posts: 427
Location: Planet Meltdown
The improved reverse clinch knot is still the strongest line to lure knot tested on Knot Wars. I use a Fish-n-fool 99% of the time and the double Uni for line to line. Both are easy to tie and I've never had a failure.
Posted 7/22/2016 9:24 AM (#824515 - in reply to #751485) Subject: Re: Best knot EVER!
Posts: 32798
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
This thread had a graphic up that showed the Trilene knot. We received a demand today to immediately remove the graphic, as it's copyrighted by an outfit that sells knot cards out West. The graphic in question comes up in searches, so beware not to ever post any graphic or post any information found in a search about fishing line knots here from proknot.com. The owner didn't contact us and ask for us to provide a link to his site for access to the graphic (which we would have happily done), he had his off shore attorney send us a legal communication threatening to have our website blocked if we didn't immediately remove the offending graphic. We did, and apologized.
Since the Trilene knot is a Berkley branded knot and Berkley Fishing is an OFM partner, we'll use the Berkley graphic from this time forward. Not only that, it's free!
Posted 7/22/2016 9:49 AM (#824519 - in reply to #751136) Subject: Re: Best knot EVER!
Posts: 1169
Location: New Hope MN
I looked up the results of knot wars 2010. (just do a google search)
The Improved Reverse Clinch was #1 for Braid (9.2% stronger than Palomar). I have no idea how to tie that one...
And to settle the debate, the San Diego Jam did beat out the Palomar in all categories(mono, braid, fluro), but just barely.
Posted 7/22/2016 9:57 AM (#824520 - in reply to #824515) Subject: Re: Best knot EVER!
Posts: 8719
sworrall - 7/22/2016 9:24 AM
This thread had a graphic up the showed that Trilene knot. We received a demand today to immediately remove the graphic, as it's copyrighted by an outfit that sells knot cards out West. The graphic in question comes up in searches, so beware not to ever post any graphic or post any information found in a search about fishing line knots here from proknot.com. The owner didn't contact us and ask for us to provide a link to his site for access to the graphic (which we would have happily done), he had his off shore attorney send us a legal communication threatening to have our website blocked if we didn't immediately remove the offending graphic. We did, and apologized.
Since the Trilene knot is a Berkley branded knot and Berkley Fishing is an OFM partner, we'll use the Berkley graphic from this time forward.
Posted 7/22/2016 11:15 AM (#824531 - in reply to #751136) Subject: Re: Best knot EVER!
Posts: 13688
Location: minocqua, wi.
i've been using a form of the San Diego Jam Knot for 15 years and zero failures ... i do it by first doubling the line, going through the eye twice and then finishing. someone sees me tying it, they usually give me a goofy look.
the other knot i use to connect braid to fluoro is the FG ... between the two i don't feel i need to know any other knots. palomar has it's place tying a hook for a drop-shot rig though (keeping the hook point in the right orientation).
Best knot EVER!