The Fish N Fool knot recently won Knot Wars and IMO the best knot for fluorocarbon. It’s a knot only fishin fools know that it doesn’t break.
The best part about the knot is that it’s real simple and you’re not worrying about whether or not you tied a good knot when money’s on the line.
I’ve been using this knot with mono for my spinnerbaits for years. I guess this knot is good for braid as well according to this episode of Knot Wars. Instead of doing 8 twists in the Berkley Braid Knot, I’ve been doing 4 twists with mono for my spinnerbaits. It’s been one of my favorite knots and will have to experiment with braid in the near future.
The Jam Knot Jason Quinn illustrates in the video below is my favorite knot for fluorocarbon.
I don’t like the palomar knot for fluorocarbon since it tends to break with this knot for whatever reason.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to tie this knot for a bit and never really figured it out until I came across this video. It’s far and away the easiest way to snell a hook. I’m gonna give it a try when punching matt and it better hold up cause those tungsten weights are dang expensive.
So why snell a hook? When the weight hits the top of the hook, it kicks the point of the hook up which in turn also kicks the claws up on your craw making it look like it’s in a fighting position and also increases your hook up ratio.
I believe the video below illustrates the proper way to tie the snell knot but you need hands like a surgeon to tie it this way. The only criticism of this illustration is that I think it’s important to make sure that the line end comes of the front of the hook so the point sticks up properly. Just pull the line through the front of the hook like the average fisherman in the first video and problem solved. For some reason the line end comes out of the wrong end on the video with the orange line.
Here’s also another easy way to tie a snell knot.
