Knot Wars
I am the first to admint that I pretty much suck at tieing knots.. I never really got that part in Boy Scouts.. And I think that I have had more knots fail than line breaks.. I know, sadness abounds..
Fortunately for me the guys at North American Fisherman Magazine are running knot wars again this year.. Each week a new test is run between two knots to determine which is the strongest.. Last year the Palomar won the battle as the strongest knot on three types of line.. this year it has already been pushed aside by a new leading knot, the Fish N Fool.. Personally, the fool looks too complicated to tie in a boat with rough water, I’ll stick with the Palomar, its pretty hard to screw up..
Check out the Knot Wars videos at the NAFM website.
Tags: knots
Reader Comments
You are very wrong about the Fish-N-Fool knot being hard to tie, it is just as easy if NOT Easier to tie. I can tie it on a dark cold rainy nite in about 15 seconds. I dont think the palomar is hard to screw up at all I can. lol If you get the lines crossed it can be very weak.
Watch this video and you will change your mind.
http://smg.photobucket.com/remix/player.swf?videoURL=http%3A%2F%2Fvidmg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv37%2FFish-N-Fool%2Fec1743a6.pbr&hostname=streammg.photobucket.com&fs=1&os=1&ap=1
Fish-N-Fool
Thanks for stopping by Rick.. The video is great..
I’ll have to try tieing that know this year and see if I can teach my confused fingers how to do it..
The Fish-N-Fool knot looks exactly like a Uniknot, except that one wraps the line through the eye twice, before tieing the knot. I use a Uniknot frequently, so I will have to give this new knot a try.