Best Knot For Leader to Braid ?

[BobbyBudnick]

Slim beauty knot

[ErieCan]

Alberto knot. Fast and easy to tie. Small knot that runs through the guides well. I tie a slightly modified version as explained here. 

 

 

[Maggiesmaster]

I use the Shin knot.  It’s a little bit smaller than the Alberto and relatively easy to tie. Landed a 7 lb bass yesterday & it didn’t cause any problems.

[RealtreeByGod]

IDK what I'm doing wrong but my Albrights pull through half of the time I try to tie them. It's with light line, normally 7lb fluoro > 10lb braid. 

[MickD]

13 minutes ago, RealtreeByGod said:

IDK what I'm doing wrong but my Albrights pull through half of the time I try to tie them. It's with light line, normally 7lb fluoro > 10lb braid. 

Probably not enough turns, maybe slippery/waxy braid, but the Albright is sort of like half an Alberto knot. Try tying the Alberto knot in the very good video above.  I also alter the Alberto, but a little different than he does.  After setting the knot (He's right-it has to be set very tightly, as do most knots, and a common cause of failure is not setting them tightly enough.  A properly set knot will plastically deform the leader) I tie two half hitches, pulled tightly off the end of it with the tag of the braid.  They just don't come unravelled.

[Cgrinder]

FG knot

[bulldog1935]

6 hours ago, RealtreeByGod said:

IDK what I'm doing wrong but my Albrights pull through half of the time I try to tie them. It's with light line, normally 7lb fluoro > 10lb braid. 

The key to tying a good Allbright is remember the direction you rolled the loops.  

Begin tightening by pulling the tag end of the braid as you continue to roll the loops and get more of that tag end out of the knot.  Before it's completely tight, pull the tag end of the fluoro to shorten that loop.  

The last thing you do is pull the standing ends of both lines.  

After I trim, a drop of Zap CA+ pink.  

This knot I tied yesterday will zing through any microguide.  

 

[CrankFate]

Light line (bass fishing) uni/uni.

 

Heavy line 50lb braid to 50lb Fluoro - overhand knot to uni. 

[Dash Riprock]

On 7/7/2021 at 10:53 PM, Maggiesmaster said:

I use the Shin knot.  It’s a little bit smaller than the Alberto and relatively easy to tie. Landed a 7 lb bass yesterday & it didn’t cause any problems.

Is this the Shin knot? How is it different from the Albright? 

 

 

[Big Swimbait]

On 7/6/2021 at 12:58 PM, BrianMDTX said:

I like the Lefty Kreh knot. Very simple to tie and so far, I have not had anything close to a failure.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDxGy3Nld2g

 

[Maggiesmaster]

On 7/9/2021 at 1:10 PM, Dash Riprock said:

Is this the Shin knot? How is it different from the Albright? 

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They look pretty close (I think!). One difference from the Alberto knot is that you only wrap about 9 times one way, rather 7 front & 7 back.  I think the Shin knot is a bit more compact and goes through guides a bit easier.  I haven’t tried to tackle the FG knot yet!