07-29-2007, 05:07 PM
Tarponjim and others who use the blood knot to tie tippet to leader I'm just curious how often do you find this knot to break? I frequently will skip tippet altogether when fishing 6x flourocarbon but I do use tippet with larger leaders. I haven't tied a blood knot in a couple years. I usually use a surgeons knot with wrapping around 3 times instead of 2. I would say this fails me a couple fish in a hundred and off course those are always the bigger ones. I thought I read that blood knots were not quite as strong as surgeons knots. I'm just wondering why you use it and if it may be worth me trying blood knots again.
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