Braid to Leader Connection

[Mr J]

1309sg wrote:

I also use the bimin on the braid and then the yucutan on the braid to leader. What I have found is that the leader should not be more than double the diameter of the braid. Also that care should be taken when tightening the yucutan, otherwise the leader tends to pull straught before the knot is really tight, causing the winds of the yucutan to slip over back onto the braid, causing slipping.

my 2c (Zim cents..LMAO)

@1309sg: Please explain "Also that care should be taken..... causing slipping"

@Neilg: I use the KF casting braid.

Thanks everyone for the input. Will give the Fig8/uni knot combo a try this weekend. Still don't feel as if I have arrived at a satisfactory answer as to why I had those probs with the braid/leader connection.

 But again thanks nice to know help is just a few strokes away on the keyboard.

 

[1309sg]

 A common problem when doing the yucutan (me anyway): after putting the tag end of the leader through the bimini, keep both the tag end and the leader in your one hand so that when you draw the bimini coils tight, you have a tight knot. If you dont hang onto the tag, the coils tend to slip over the leader and back onto the braid, looking ok , but allowing the knot to slip.

 

[neilg]

Mr J wrote:

Neilg: I use the KF casting braid.

Thanks everyone for the input. Will give the Fig8/uni knot combo a try this weekend. Still don't feel as if I have arrived at a satisfactory answer as to why I had those probs with the braid/leader connection.

It's slipping bud, it's slipping. That's why you lose everything.

Try knots that you know very well, make sure you set them properly and leave a little tag and see if the same happens

 

[Mr J]

@1309sg and @neilg: Ta.That clears things up. Yes I tend to agree with you guys more and more because if i cast my mind back to what the braid looked like, especially the second time round, it looked like a knot (on the braid) that had started to come undone. Thanks Chaps!

 

So a bit more Jungle Oats I guess to tighten the knots..........