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I'm a little late with this as I've been run off my feet this week, but I fished the Malmsbury reservoir Monday afternoon/evening. I caught six carp all about 45cm (give or take a few cm) and a brown trout about 15cm. There were insects everywhere and from mid arvo onward the trout were rising every...

Practice. It’s the only knot I use for braid to mono, even for light lines (10lb is light for me though, tying that cockroach pubic hair crap that bream fishos use might be more challenging)

Jasonfish1234 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:14 pm

I hate FG knot, it so hard but it so good

Takes some practice, but once you get it right it’s an awesome knot

15lb or under, double uni knot is good enough and easy. Used more often too usually, for me anyway.
FG or slim beauty for 20lb and above.

Good job boys, almost at page 3!

it looks bigger cause i had to wear the camera over my life jacket and it was just inches away from the reel. ill have to find a different way to mount the camera so its not so close. im not a fan of the headmount for the gopro.. Yea I was wondering that. I noticed your video has low angle, coz of ...

Jasonfish1234 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:22 pm

is there a true FG knot since most of fishing video they have many to tie it

Easy way
https://youtu.be/ob2oFYEWWzA

Here’s a video I made with the version of the fg knot I tie. I use the fg for everything. Once you’ve got it down it’s not hard to tie.

https://youtu.be/ylqodFOhKAM
https://youtu.be/ylqodFOhKAM

I thought I'd put this here , , , , make the search engine work for people :-D Firstly the "loop", yep, the tying of "the loop" I double pass my loops, so they better "lock" in rather than pull out to a knot knob :( One pass through L1.PNG Second pass through L2.PNG Pull tight L3.PNG Presto L4.PNG L...

Now, an easy quick fire "get you out of trouble" Paternoster Rig, especially good when you don't have pre-tied hooks handy. Ooooow, love you beauties, you gorgeous pre-tied hooks R1.PNG Form a loop in the leader line, with the loop length to be the desired hook leader length R2.PNG Ensure, if a glow...