My only reservation of your rig is that Penn 10X is a very, very hard leader and is not ideal for friction knots in my view. The idea behind a friction knot is for it to bite into the leader. I don't know how well it bites into the 10X.
I do know guys who use friction knots on fluorocarbon and who obviously continue to do so because they haven't had any problems. I personally wouldn't do that but each to their own. With ultra hard material like fluoro, once a friction knots starts slipping, it won't stop.
I have been thinking a fair bit about the fluorocarbon issue in recent weeks and was actually going to post it as a new subject.
Like you Brandon, I have always deemed fluoro to be unsuitable for friction knots as it is so hard. The whole logic of a friction knot seems to fail if you apply it to a very hard substance like fluoro.
On the other hand, I have never heard
first hand of an instance of a friction knot slipping on it. Can anyone here own up to having that happen or witnessing it happen?
The other issue with fluoro is its lack of elasticity which makes it a far from ideal shock absorber. But given its greatly improved abrasion resistance when compared to the soft supple mono most of us use, I reckon I could live with that.
The issue for me is whether a friction knot does actually fail when applied to the shiny hard surface of fluoro.
Anyone?