thanks guys...I don't know the knot that I am tying, but I use a quick tying tool where I simply loop 1 time through the eye then wrap 5 times around the tool and come back through...quick and never have lost a fish, until I used the braid. Then I used the improved cinch knot and it still failed. I don't know what the guide tied. I will try the palomar knot. I also have been joining the mono to the braid with the tying tool, what do you use for joining two lines

Uni to Uni knot when tying braid to a mono leader.

Thanks for the info on the double uni knot, I have heard of it, but never used it. I will try it out...I am itching!!!! (to go fishing)

El Fisherboy:


Try it - you'll like it.

I use spider wire 20lb. I will never go back to mono. It doesn't break until my knife touches it. I was pulling my boat last week with it when I got hung up on some oysters back in the flats.

Since I've started using braid, I spend less time hung up on oysters while drift fishing over scattered shell. I just give it a firm steady pull and most of the time it will let go. With mono, I could pull a lot and hardly ever get it off the shell.