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Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot #12706885 04/07/18 03:19 PM
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Been playing with a few new knots for floro and haven't found the break strength against speed of tying.

This one that Gary Swindle says he learned on the farm held up well in my garage testing, but tourney coming up and didn't want to break off a big momma on a bed with an untested knot

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Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: danceswithbass] #12706908 04/07/18 03:36 PM
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Mark Pack showed me that knot when we fished with him. Been using a lot, no issues. I use it for fluorocarbon, still tie palomer on mono.


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Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: danceswithbass] #12706933 04/07/18 03:47 PM
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Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: danceswithbass] #12706966 04/07/18 04:03 PM
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Been using it for years only knot too use for floro!!


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Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: danceswithbass] #12706968 04/07/18 04:06 PM
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I'd rather hear Swindle talk about tying a fishing knot than hear Brad Pitt talk about his first night with Angelina Jolie. The man has a way with words.



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Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: danceswithbass] #12707025 04/07/18 04:44 PM
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I learned it on a Mark Zona show, I used to break fluoro all the time with a palomer and with that knot I have not broken at the hook since using it. Now it just breaks everywheres else. hammer


I too still use a palomer with mono, so much easier.

Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: danceswithbass] #12707083 04/07/18 05:30 PM
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Looks like the clinch knot, but with the line doubled
Should be a great knot


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Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: danceswithbass] #12707120 04/07/18 05:56 PM
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I used the farm knot for a while until I switched to the palomar. Learn how to tie it properly and it is a very small, very strong knot that Ive never had a problem with. The farm knot gets a little bulky for some presentations.


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Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: danceswithbass] #12707143 04/07/18 06:14 PM
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Palomar. The only other knot I use is a double uni for tying two lines together. The key to the Palomar is once you pass the bait thru the loop, pull the knot part back out to where it doesn't cinch up with all that loop still hanging out. When you don't do that you have to pull the extra thru the knot and you get that curly line which is bad line after doing that. Also wet every knot

Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: danceswithbass] #12707190 04/07/18 06:58 PM
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Isnt that the same as the Shaw Grisby know just more line twist


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Re: Anybody use Swindles favorite Floro knot [Re: Flooringit] #12707200 04/07/18 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Flooringit
Isnt that the same as the Shaw Grisby know just more line twist


The Shaw Grigsby/Jimmy Houston knot is slightly different
Its a doubled pitzen

With the doubled pitzen, you wrap around down the doubled lines then up through the hole at the top

Heres Grigsby tying it and then the double improved clinch


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Im not sure if Zona has a YouTube video on it or not, but he used a big ol rope in his demonstration and it made learning the knot a lot easier.

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Originally Posted by collincountytx
Originally Posted by Flooringit
Isnt that the same as the Shaw Grisby know just more line twist


The Shaw Grigsby/Jimmy Houston knot is slightly different
Its a doubled pitzen

With the doubled pitzen, you wrap around down the doubled lines then up through the hole at the top

Heres Grigsby tying it and then the double improved clinch


Thats a list for different then how I learned it. Im not sure if the way I do it makes the line go in and out same side of loop but I will look next time I do it. I still cant figure out how guys can work with them small loops


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I still haven't found anything wrong with the uni-knot. Regular for most baits but for big swimbaits I tie the version where you go through the eye twice.


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