[moffty]

I had great troubles with the above horrible stuff when I first used it, so much so that even though I found out what the problem was, I moved back to nylon and have stayed there ever since.

It was all down to the knot that was used, I used to be quite happy with a half blood knot for attaching the fly. Unfortunately, fluorocarbon wasn't!!!

I reckon I'd get a 1lB breaking strain max from 8lB fluoro. it ended up costing me a fortune in flies!

Check out http://www.orvis.com/orvis_assets/files/index.html

The Orvis knot sorted all the problems out and even though I don't use fluoro any more, I still swear by that knot.

Try it and let me know what you think.

Steve

[wildfisher]

Mofty, that knot looks very complicated…some of us are now using this

The Davy Knot.

http://utahoutdoors.com/pages/Davyknot.htm
http://www.itinerantangler.com/podcasts/2006/02/video_archive_how_to_tie_the_d.html

It is possibly the easiest knot ever to tie and so far no problems.

[notkeenonlures]

for casts i only ever use sightfree 6lb flouro and it always seems to do me fine but my mate cant stand flouro saying he always breaks with it but i think its ok (he always catches more than me so he has more chances to break) : when we go for wee broonies we both use drennan subsurface 2lb and we never have probs with this stuff and its nice and cheep too

[moffty]

Wildfisher

Thanks for the Davy knot, I'll try it out. It's funny though, you say that the orvis knot looks complicated which I suppose it is, but hey, remember the first time you tried to tie your shoe laces was that not a total bar steward???

I would imagine that now you could tie your laces standing on your head whilst reciting War and Peace backwards.....

The first few times you try tying any knots they are tricky, this bit behind, this bit in front, loop it over and through...blah blah blah. After a bit of practice though, the whole thing becomes a least resistance path in a neural net, something we no longer have to consciously think about. This of course, gives us all the more time to think about how on earth we are going to catch the devious little FU......FISH! that sit just under the surface sticking two fingers up at us and ignoring all our flies!!!

Regards

Steve

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[the water buoys]

Thanks for the davey knot very easy to tie hope to try it out tomorrow,Hopefully with a fish on it .I give the sight free another go and let yous no how i get on Thanks again Henry from the water bouys :  :