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Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) => Tackle & Techniques => Topic started by: Ben Crarer on October 29, 2011, 09:43:15 PM
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attaching a twisted leader to braid mainline (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4zp3mBwFOk#)
thanks in advance
:)
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Some one the forum made this and saved it on my computer.....very usefull.
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Thanks Darren!
How big a loop should my Bimini have?
I can just squeeze my head in the loop of my knot...
Cheers
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bloody hell that looks like hard work
Just do it the way as per Darren's diagram
attaching a twisted leader to braid mainline (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4zp3mBwFOk#)
thanks in advance
:)
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Smaller than that. As small as you can make it so as to decrease the chance of it looping over a guide and ripping it out when casting.
I found I damaged a lot more guides using twisties than I do using PR knots.
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The PR is the bobbin job right? that looks like a hard knot to tie! will look into it though!
How do you get a smaller loop on the bimini? as I pull up (away from my knee or big toe) with my finger to wind on the downward wrap action my loop grows...
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Tie it with your fingers instead off your knee
The PR is the bobbin job right? that looks like a hard knot to tie! will look into it though!
How do you get a smaller loop on the bimini? as I pull up (away from my knee or big toe) with my finger to wind on the downward wrap action my loop grows...
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I use my hands and hook the loop over a nail or door handle, hang on to the tag end in my teeth and leaning forward use my finger to pull the twists up creating the downward final twist........it just takes practice.
Good luck with it all.
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Cheers mate!
this morning I managed to get the loop so I just could squeeze my hand through, still to big?
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that is a pretty good effort. I think the risk of losing a stripper is reduced quite a bit with a loop that is so small.
Why don't you learn to tie a FG?
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Will check it out, is there preferred link on this site?
Cheers
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Fg knot all the way. Never had one fail only wish I had learnt to tie it sooner. Would have saved a few guide blowouts from a double uni in 150lb catching! Can now tie a Fg in almost the same time. Practice!
Cheers chris
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http://www.gtpopping.com/forum/index.php?topic=1440.0 (http://www.gtpopping.com/forum/index.php?topic=1440.0)
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Try this one I found on this great site. Hope this works.
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This was Che Carson's drawing from year's ago
Try this one I found on this great site. Hope this works.
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that is a pretty good effort. I think the risk of losing a stripper is reduced quite a bit with a loop that is so small.
Why don't you learn to tie a FG?
This must have been posted here before but I've just found it on utube,
Duncan from Fishheads FG knot, easy to replicate.
Tying a FG knot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4GCH6i5L2I#ws)
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Cheers Guys ;)
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What is the double knot mention here (tied onto the bimini)?
Second connection (joining twisty to bimini) is this a cats paw?
http://www.nomadtackle.com/nsatackle_riggingvid_twisted_%20leaders.htm (http://www.nomadtackle.com/nsatackle_riggingvid_twisted_%20leaders.htm)
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What is the double knot mention here (tied onto the bimini)?
Second connection (joining twisty to bimini) is this a cats paw?
http://www.nomadtackle.com/nsatackle_riggingvid_twisted_%20leaders.htm (http://www.nomadtackle.com/nsatackle_riggingvid_twisted_%20leaders.htm)
Yes, same end result.
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I used twisties for a few years but I will never use them again.
Ripped a guide clean off my SP80M.
FG only now.
Pete