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NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts) Mon Feb 27, 2012, 10:17 AM Feb 2012

Anyone ever attempted trying to tie a knot with braided fishing line? [View all]

Tried to put some Spiderwire Ultracast Invisibraid on my reels and I could not tie this stuff so it would stay tied. Too slick. Tried every knot tying trick in the book with no luck whatsoever. Put a little tension on it and it untied itself and came right off the reel spool every time. Crazy.

Someone told me to put a drop of crazy glue on the knot and that will do it. Is that a good idea? Anyone ever try that?

Going to have to try something here.

Don

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Anyone ever attempted trying to tie a knot with braided fishing line? [View all] NNN0LHI Feb 2012 OP

I'd say no to crazy glue. Have you tried an arbor knot? Scuba Feb 2012 #1

I tried every kind of knot I could think of with this stuff including an arbor knot NNN0LHI Feb 2012 #2

Try to just stick with a good monofilament line. seeviewonder Feb 2012 #3

Usually fish for lm bass NNN0LHI Feb 2012 #5

I typically fish for largemouth also. seeviewonder Feb 2012 #7

Have you tried a Palomar knot? Magleetis Feb 2012 #4

I tried fluorocarbon last year and initially had the same problem trying to tie that NNN0LHI Feb 2012 #6

I'm going to presume that this is a synthetic material here. Callisto32 Mar 2012 #8

Not sure if it is all synthetic but I would guess it is NNN0LHI Mar 2012 #9

I use Spiderwire in my antenna shooter BiggJawn Mar 2012 #10

Had a friend with a cross-bow and a fishing reel install my Carolina Windom NNN0LHI Mar 2012 #11

Bows are a little hard to use these days... BiggJawn Mar 2012 #12

Go up a foot or two and double the line up, safeinOhio Mar 2012 #13

I figured the knot tying out but now I have another problem NNN0LHI Mar 2012 #14

When you pull hard on it like that, safeinOhio Mar 2012 #15