ShearonHarris123123

When you say "drag in the water" are you basically saying the difference in "stretch" is that the fluoro has to pull against more water because it sinks? Its not necessarily knot failure its just beating the hell out of the knot slamming against the eyes each cast. The knot doesn't slip or break but the mono is breaking right at the knot. I figure its similar to having a tungsten bullet weight beating your knot all day texas rigging, so you retie often. Ive seen I think it was aaron martens use shrink wrap to keep the weight from banging on his knots. I use the uni to uni for spinning setups and never ever have issues.

Recently have been using braid (40lb) with a 15-20' mono leader (15lb mono), uni-to-uni knot, to throw ~4/5" rage swimmers, but twice now have had knot failure from how roughly the knot goes through the rod eyes. Also, the knot causes backlashes from hitting the eyes or tangling up on the spool. I got this idea from the bassresource youtube videos and love the concept but the knot is causing all sorts of problems. Is there anything I can do to remedy these issues? Or just go straight mono or fluoro? I want the shock absorption and toughness of the mono but want the invisibility and little stretch for long cast hook sets of the fluoro; cannot make up my mind