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Originally Posted by MOYER THE FISH DESTROYER

What are your favorite Knots?

I use a Palomar knot just about for everything.

People say the a Dropper Loop is not good, but I landed YT up to 40# on it.

Mono to hook to 25 lbs Old style improved clinch knot.
Mono to hook 30lbs and up Palomar
Spectra to mono with mono up to 80lbs Tony Pena
Spectra to mono with mono over 80lbs Albright with doubled spectra... doubled with a bimini twist

Of those knots I am least happy with the Palomar, which needs to be retied often because it eventually always slips over time.I do not use a dropper loop as it breaks under it's line test, but instead I use the drop slide rig which is my own invention.

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Drop Slide Rig (JD Dropper)

I came up with this about a year ago for fishing macks and smelt up
north around Esco County and BKR. I call it the drop slide rig, my
buddy who's now using it as well calls it the JD dropper. We both have
had very good luck with it.


Here's the logic behind it. I like the dropper loop for fishing
macks because if you keep the line tight on the drop they can't twist
up the line and I like the fact it keeps them under control and off the
bottom when the rig is down. The drawbacks of a traditional dropper are
the poor knot strength, the fact that if the fish takes the bait he has
to take two lines in his mouth instead of one, and if you try to let
them run with the bait they end up feeling the weight if they run much
at all.


To get around all this I came up with this:



So here's the setup I take a small 1/4 inch long piece of clear
3/16 tubing and slide it on my mainline. I then tie the hook on with a
palomar knot. That's pretty much a 100% connection from the fish to the
reel when hooked up. I then tie 2 1/2 feet of ten pound test fluoro to
the center of the tube with a uni or improved clinch (my preference)


Here's the detail:




I then I tie the other end of the ten pound to my weight.


When hanging with the line tight it hangs and fishes just like a
dropper and the mack or bait can raise hell but he just can't tangle
it, but if you get a hit or a bump you can slack your line and let the
fish or bait run, because the line will slide right through the tube.




All and all the rig is not really any more visible the dropper loop, and it does everything it can do, but with some real advantages.


So that's the knots I use. Since I first posted about the drop slide on Bloody Decks I have gotten maybe two dozen e-mails from guys that are using it. Every one of them said it worked great for them. It's now my favorite way to fish bait.

Good luck, Jim