Crimp sleeves vs Palomar Knot strength test. Crimping your fishing leaders. 

Everything shown in this test broke the leader 1/4" from the crimp sleeve. only had one brand of crimp slipping and i left that one out of the video. been running high seas crimps for the last year and a half and have had 0 failures fishing hard every week.

Been crimping a while now and I love it. I’ve been apprehensive to move to 80 lb leaders but now that I’ve done it I am really glad I did. I no longer worry about if my leader is nicked and going to break on a big fish. Crimping saves time and looks clean.

Wow I’ve gone big time! Lol. Your going to love crimping buddy!!

Update: After testing my first 3 crimps on both 80lb and 100lb leader, there were no failures. Lines broke first. Extremely happy. Thanks for the advice brother!!!

Thanks Jay👍. Can’t wait until fall!!

I was surprised by that too chris since everyone said the crimps are much stronger. I will continue to test some different brand crimps and see if I can find one that outperforms the rest.

Thanks for watching. 🤘

Thanks Tom. Will continue testing sone other brands and let you know the results👍

Thanks Bill. Will continue my testing and report my findings soon💪

Thanks for watching David👊

Yea is so clean and gives the rig a factory look. Love crimping

I was surprised too Matt. I’m betting the crimps get stronger with experience👍

We’ll it’s faster and cleaner no doubt. I figured the strength of the crimps would have been noticeably higher but to be fair I’ve been tying a palomar just about every week for 30 yrs and this was my first day to crimp. I also went with inexpensive crimping tool and off brand crimps which might have made a difference. I will test the hi-seas crimps next and compare results soon.

Thanks Brother! We need to get back out there and do some fishing together👍

Thanks Chris👍. Will continue to test other brands of crimps and see if I can find one that outperforms the others.

I’m happy with the Palomar as well Skip but I love the clean look of the crimp and it’s definitely a time saver when rigging up a bunch of rigs. To be fair it was my very first day of crimping and I’ve been tying palomars just about every week for 30 yrs. I expect that with a little experience these crimps will be stronger than the palomar and my rig tying time will be cut in half. Going to test hi-seas crimps next and see how they do.

Yes Iv been talking with you on messenger as well, Skip Stewart !

Come on Skip. I know exactly who your are buddy. We’ve been friends now going on 6 months. Our channels are on similar trajectories and we are friends with a lot of the same guys I our community as well. If we lived closer we’d probably be fishing buddies.👍

🤣 Right on Chris, no doubt about it, if I’m ever in Texas mI calling you up and if you’re ever in Ohio there’s a seat in the boat for ya bud!

Going to try a few more brands of crimps and report my findings.

@@ElGatoAzulTV good deal,if you find one a little bit better let me,if I find one I will get back to you!

@@whiskerdreams7146 thanks Brother👊. Will let you know👍

You and me both. Could be because I used inexpensive off brand crimps and tool. Will buy some different brands of crimps and retest.

I was too Matt but they were almost identical. I will order some different brand crimps this week and see if I can get better results.

Give em a try. I’m loving them so far.

Thanks Lance and thanks for your help buddy💪

Thanks brother! I really like the crimps so I’m going to keep testing a few more brands and see if I can get them to outperform the others. Clean and fast once you get em figured out. I think I can get them a little stronger with experience

Thanks Rick! Will continue the testing and report more findings soon👍

Thanks Dave👍. I had a ton of guys interested in this video so I hope it helps a few. I will keep testing and playing around with these and see if I like them for sure.

Thanks brother👊

Thanks Clayton.. will continue to test these on different brands until i am fully confident in them. will keep you posted.

Thank you. Will continue to test other brands of crimps and report back.

@@andreipetrescu603 left a loop at crimp but it was not breaking at loop. That area is double as strong since it double the line. the line closest to crimp has the least amount of stretch which is where is should break. If it was breaking at the crimp it would be over crimped but since it broke 1/4” from the crimp it broke where it should break. No stretch = lower break weight

@@ElGatoAzulTV Ok,thanks? This is a big surprise, because,in theory ,crimps should give close to 100 percent line strenght. I should try some testing myself ,but carp fishin uses max 0.5 mm mono. Tight lines!

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The time im saving makes it worth it for me. It’s a much cleaner looking rig to which most of the guys that crimp really like. It’s not for everyone but it’s definitely an improved rig in my eyes. I’m betting my crimps get stronger with experience and I know I will get faster as well. Makes rigging up a bunch of rigs before tournaments and travel trips much quicker and easier. Probably not for the casual angler but after speaking to most of my high level tournament buddies it turns out 75% of the are already crimping.

That’s what I’ve always used as well but I found the crimps to be faster and cleaner giving the rigs a factory look which I liked.

Imma have to. Check that out

Thanks Brother👊

Thanks Chris. I will keep playing around with these and see if it’s something that sticks. So far I like that they are faster and cleaner. Was surprised that the strength test was so similar but I will get sone more name brand crimps and continue testing.

We’ll I’m going to buy some more brands and continue my testing.

@@ElGatoAzulTV The really sad thing is, even after all of my testing, and knowing the Uni knot is the weakest of all, I still use it. I’ve tied it so long, and had such good luck with it, I tie it without thinking.

I never have an issue with my Palomar either John so this isn’t really to try and resolve an issue I was having. I was told that this is faster and cleaner for us guys that are tying 6-10 rigs at a time and I did find that this was faster and it also gave the rigs a clean factory look which I liked. I will keep playing around with crimps and see how I like them this big fish season.

The leader will always break at the knot or the crimp Mike. That is where the weakest points are due to the stress put on those areas during knot tying or crimping. If I was testing just the mono strength it would be up around 80 but this wasn’t a mono test. This was the crimp vs knot test and the breaks were where I had anticipated. Next test I will show the knots and the crimps for you.

@@ElGatoAzulTV I’d also like to see the before and after of the knots and crimps.

@@warren_stock thanks for watching. will show that on the next one Warren. More testing coming soon brother👍

Video just dropped. Results are out buddy👍

It was dead even buddy but to be fair this was my first day crimping and I’ve been tying the palomar for 30 yrs. Hope your doing better from your boat accident amigo. What crimp sleeves and crimping tool do y’all use? I suspect I can get slightly higher numbers with a different brand crimp like hi-seas. Will continue to test and see if I improve.👍

@@ElGatoAzulTV I use aluminum double barrel crips and the crimpers look same as yours. Pair with 80Lb ande monster

No shit!!🤣🤣🤣. I was worried about my eye socket 😜