Tips for trieing 125# mono for leaders.

[Ratdog]

Well it looks like da snell knot on a 9/0 J hook is good with the 125lb Ande mono. The Bimini with braid is good. And a knot I'm working on to connect the mono to the braid. I have tested loop to loop on haywire twist and it would have to be a wale to get wire to cut a double 125 lb loop.

All this is the persuet of old school tech. No crimps and swivels. And it seems to be working.

I will next try to add large mardi grass beeds above the jay hook with the snell as spacers for a skirt. I just need to come up with a head above that. Or a skirt with a head already .

By the way I showed a guy at the rotery point yesterday how to do a Bimini twist. When I left he was practicing it and well I felt good that people still have a passion for learning things that have to do with fishing. I also find knots used for years and years are still interesting to the average guy who does not have the resources to obtain more than fishing line and a hook.

I'm not in any way suggesting I do not use crimps and swivels heck I got boxes of um. I just seem to be getting to a point in my life were minimalism is takeing over and if I don't have to mess with all that extra gear lugging more and more to fish seems pointless if I can just grab a few things and go.

And I still believe in the use of a worm to catch a perch and tie a new rig then use the persh to catch a ten pound flat head in the river. It just seems to be fun to me.

So for you guys that fish alot and have little time to do it .dont discount the old ways cuse they are slow and take too much time. You too one day might get a kick out of sitting on the bank with a Cain pole just for the sport of it.


More results on knots too come and pics too . Just wait it will happen. I ain't got nuttin but time on my hands and nuttin else to do except figure out ways to take more time to go fishing.