Really good, with lots of no nonsense instruction. First thing is recognising that not everyone is a veteran! David New Forest Uk and I have watched loads. Keep it up clear and explanatory.
My mate did this knot for me when I was having an epic on the beach one day and Its now my go to knot for attaching my shock leader. So far I haven't had any issues with it going through the eyes of my rod (even on my cheapest of cheap rod) it's an excellent knot, can really take a powerful cast and unlike some others I've used its an easy one to do on the waters edge. Great video! Thanks for putting up I've been trying to find one on here for ages (which is very hard when you don't know the name of the knot.)🤘
As a surf caster I even go heavier than the 10lb leader to 1oz lure rule, because I've had break offs on hard casts. I lean more toward 15lb -20lb per ounce, so if I'm using a 2oz lure, I want bare minimum of a 30lb leader, just to be safe.
@@SEAANGLINGADVENTURES ya I used spit on the knot and it's still snapping, it's the mainline 25lb line that's snapping , it's only holding 16 lbs of pressure and snapping
probably it is. I remember the great Neil MacKellow teach me this. I rather use a tapered shock leader or an Allbright or a blod knot or other simpler knots
Absolutely, because the weakness of a line lays in the knots. When a line snaps it's 99% at the knots. So the more knots you have, the weaker your line will become. That's why I too went for the tapered shock leader. A bit on the more expensive side, but well worth it, in my opinion. Use simple Uni-knots and you're good to go. And when halfway your tapered leader (cutting it down to replace a few things, etc): throw it in your closed off waste bucket and when that one is full: take it to the recycling park in your area (save fauna and flora).
@@TheOpelkoenjas Regarding the line becoming weaker the more knots you have, that is completely wrong. The line will be as weak as the weakest link (knot). So for example if all knots were 70% of line strength, you could have 100 knots and the line would break at 70% of the unknotted line strength. If more knots made the line weaker you would eventually get into MINUS values for the breaking strain LOL.
@@keithscott9774 What I meant is the more knots in your line the higher the possibility you have a weak point. More knots = more chances of line break. It's simple math.
It is a good strong knot. Due to it having 2 knots and ideally pushing them to the side on retrieval would it be best too push one knot to one side and the other knot opposite as I'm finding it awkward to not overlap them winding in
Wondering about that one too. Those seem to be large knots that will get snagged behind everything it passes. They might be strong, not going to debate on that one, but I don't think they are meant to be used with anything more then fine 20-30lb lines.
@@TheOpelkoenjas I have used this knot for 30 years catching 20KG red drum. It works, but I would suggest shortening the length between the two knots so that it is easy to keep track up as you wind in. Last thing you want is one of those two knots ripping a thumb on a cast. I usually go less that 3 inches
