Best knot to use on leaders?

[ShawnPin]

Looking to go from #20 mono down to a #12 flouro leader. What would be the best knot to join them together. Thanks for any advice.

[UNREEL]

Blood knot or back to back uni.

[King Slammin]

Blood knot or back to back uni.

Two great knots to learn. I use a lot of uni knots since I fish for all different species with much of the same gear, just leader up or down accordingly

[ShawnPin]

Thanks. Fish both Erie and Ontario weekly and want to go 20 down to 12/10 on Erie but using the same gear.

[flybuster]

Size 10 spro power swivel works great. I use them for all line to line connections.

[Knotlost]

Like mentioned back to back uni works great.

[Chas0218]

Blood knot or back to back uni.

Yup double uni on all my gear and all terminal tackle tied with palomar.

[garrymny]

Best knot I have ever used, and easy to tie, Is the crazy Alberto knot. Google it. Way better than blood not IMHO.

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[Outfront]

Alberto is my preferred.

Tried fg but couldn't get it to hold with slick pp

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[LakerTaker]

I've found slick power pro to not be very knot friendly as well, so I switched back to the original. I use the back to back uni for all line to line connections.

[Sk8man]

Spro power swivel #8 or 10 with original clinch knots wet and carefully cinched down tight (7 turns)  except with braid where a uni or blood knot can be used but with most knots using braid you want to do more wraps of the line at the braid end as it is pretty slippery (e.g. 10 or 12 instead of  5 or 6)

Edited August 7, 2016 by Sk8man

[TyeeTanic]

Back to back uni

[Xxx]

Spro power swivel #8 or 10 with original clinch knots wet and carefully cinched down tight (7 turns)  except with braid where a uni or blood knot can be used but with most knots using braid you want to do more wraps of the line at the braid end as it is pretty slippery (e.g. 10 or 12 instead of  5 or 6)[/quot

x2 I use the 10's for eyes rated to 30#'s and the 8' are rated at 50#'s, so if you tie direct to your Arsenal no line twist.

[papascott]

Just curious as to what techniques you want lighter line with. Most of my walleye trolling has either weight or some sort of diver where a leader would go after the weight. Exceptions would be cranks or possible riggers, I rarely run riggers on Erie. I do run a lot of cranks and would have no problem running them on 20 lb leaders, might lose a little depth with the bigger line but unless your planning on super long wind on leaders your not going to get that back.

So what techniques are you wanting lighter leaders for, out of curiosity.

[Sk8man]

An example for me at least of going to lighter lines would be for Spring browns  sometimes down to 8 lb. or 10lb. test from the 30 lb SeaFlee and for regular stuff on the Finger Lakes 12 lb instead of the 20 lb used on Lake O. I keep the SeaFlee 30 lb on most of my rigger rods all year long and just leader down but I keep a few with straight 12 lb mono and 10 lb fluoro leader just for the Fingers prior to flea onset too.

[papascott]

I can understand that sk8man but he stated to go to 10-12 for Erie. We more often than not use 20 for leaders (especially harnesses) with 10-12 mainline for eyes.

[Chas0218]

I run 10' of 15# leaders and 30# PP main line. I find the fleas stay off the line better with the 30# PP than lighter line. I always just tie uni to uni and add a couple extra twists on the braid (8/10 twists). Biggest thing with light braid is to tie the leader on first and with the leader into the knot then tie the braid and do the same and pull together the whole tine with lots of spit. I have only had one break at the knot only because I was rushing and forgot to check it. Usually I just grab both lines and pull as hard as I can before the braid starts to cut me. I imagine it's close to breaking strength.

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[Sk8man]

papascott I also use 20 lb fluoro for harnesses for eyes (or rainbows) I guess I missed the Erie part of the statement