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Knotless braid (hollow) to leader connection

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Ben Furness:
Hi everyone,

Due to crappy fingers the friction knots seem to have beaten me! Has anyone used the connection below for Gt fishing? It seems to be popular with people towing big lures but I wasn't sure about a casting situation.

TackleTour Video - Braid and fluorocarbon connection without a direct knot

Duncan O'Connell:
Hey Ben,

You wont be able to feed heavy leader (~200lb) up inside JB Hollow.

Better off splicing a loop and doing a catspaw join to a twisted leader.

Cheers
Tom

Ben Furness:
Thanks mate but I have heard that JB Hollow 130lb will take 200lb black magic mono? Although I have to admit that I have never seen it done before!

Duncan O'Connell:
I have a small spool of 130lb Toray hollow which is what they are using in the TackleTour video.
I just went and tried 210lb Sunline.
No way it was going up the middle haha!

Interesting to hear if someone has done it.

Luke Wyrsta:
Agree with everything that has been said.

Ben, if you want to go down this path you'll need to find some 400lb+ hollowcore to splice onto your mainline. Something like JB or TufLine XP would be a good choice.

Splice this for a 2/3 metres, leaving enough room to then splice on your mono shock leader (i'd be thinking around 50cm or so).

It's been a long time since I've done this, and I did it with the cats-paw/twisted connection as mentioned. You would need to experiment with the single though as I haven't done it and that's merely an observation. Many French anglers use this system (i.e. Eric Le Guyader) and they may weigh in on this discussion.

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