Learned the Crazy Alberto

[digitalvoid]

I'm always on the hunt to improve a lot of aspects of my fishing game. I was using a uni to uni knot as I found it was the easiest for me to tie.

 

Looked up the Crazy Alberto on YT and went and tried it out. Seems a little smaller than the uni to uni knot. I think I will continue to use this knot until I can figure out another one.

 

I have tried the FG knot but I can't seem to get it right. Seems like it would be a much easier to tie with a heavy leader, but I'm not using heavy line. 

 

The only reason I use braid to a leader is simply for line visibility. I also like how braid floats on the water. I can detect bites simply by how the braid starts to move on the surface of the water. I'm pretty stoked about this, however insignificant it may seem to others. Just wanted to share my joy! Tight lines. Still waiting for open water here in central Wisconsin (at least on the small lakes and ponds that are easily accesible to me).

[T-Billy]

It's the only leader knot I tie. Easy to tie on the water, passes through the guides well, and I've never had one fail. No reason to use any other for me. 

[Blaine Donders]

My preferred knot as well.

[5/0]

On 4/7/2022 at 3:14 AM, T-Billy said:

It's the only leader knot I tie. Easy to tie on the water, passes through the guides well, and I've never had one fail. No reason to use any other for me. 

Use this exclusively for braid to flouro on spinning, 7 up 7 back. Have not tried it on heavy braid to heavy leader yet though.

Can you reduce wraps with the heavier lines and still have good knot strength?

[GreenPig]

It's my leader knot too. Played with the FG but I can tie a 9 up & 9 back CA in a rocking boat in high winds in under a minute.

[T-Billy]

42 minutes ago, 5/0 said:

Use this exclusively for braid to flouro on spinning, 7 up 7 back. Have not tried it on heavy braid to heavy leader yet though.

Can you reduce wraps with the heavier lines and still have good knot strength?

Dunno. I've always used 7 with up to 40# braid to 20# mono. I've seen guys use less in videos but 7 has been perfect for me. No sense trying to fix what ain't broke.

[FryDog62]

Its a great knot, the only suggestion I have is at the very end to run the tag through the loop twice in case you didn't go back through the right way. Its a great safeguard when you're tying a knot in wind/waves and not 100% sure you went the right way out. 

 

Skip to the 9:15 minute mark to see how to finish the knot so it will never slip:

 

[5/0]

37 minutes ago, FryDog62 said:

Its a great knot, the only suggestion I have is at the very end to run the tag through the loop twice in case you didn't go back through the right way. Its a great safeguard when you're tying a knot in wind/waves and not 100% sure you went the right way out. 

That’s a good tip, will have to try it!

One thing I’ve found is that the knot is pretty forgiving if you don’t always interlace the wraps going back. I always try to do this, but not always easy on the water.

[OkobojiEagle]

1 hour ago, FryDog62 said:

in case you didn't go back through the right way.

When beginning the knot, make the loop with the leader, run the main braid line through the loop, put one of your fingers through the loop as you did with the braid and leave it there.  Hold all three strands of line above the loop while keeping your finger in the loop and tie your knot.  Complete the knot by pulling your finger back out and run the braid tag end through the loop in the same direction you just pulled your finger.

 

Clear as mud, right?

 

oe

[T-Billy]

1 hour ago, FryDog62 said:

Its a great knot, the only suggestion I have is at the very end to run the tag through the loop twice in case you didn't go back through the right way. Its a great safeguard when you're tying a knot in wind/waves and not 100% sure you went the right way out. 

 

Skip to the 9:15 minute mark to see how to finish the knot so it will never slip:

 

Thanks for mentioning this. I didn't think of it, but I do the same.

49 minutes ago, 5/0 said:

One thing I’ve found is that the knot is pretty forgiving if you don’t always interlace the wraps going back. I always try to do this, but not always easy on the water.

Yep. Tough to get them perfect while wrapping, but they will fall into place as you SLOWLY cinch it down.

[FryDog62]

On 4/8/2022 at 2:12 PM, OkobojiEagle said:

When beginning the knot, make the loop with the leader, run the main braid line through the loop, put one of your fingers through the loop as you did with the braid and leave it there.  Hold all three strands of line above the loop while keeping your finger in the loop and tie your knot.  Complete the knot by pulling your finger back out and run the braid tag end through the loop in the same direction you just pulled your finger.

 

Clear as mud, right?

 

oe

Yep, almost clear anyway. I’ve done this knot 1000 times but it pulled out on me twice... was sure I had it back through the loop the right way, but alas... 

[Delaware Valley Tackle]

Am I the only one that still uses a plain Albright knot? It’s slimmer and seems to hold just fine. 

[Blaine Donders]

33 minutes ago, Delaware Valley Tackle said:

Am I the only one that still uses a plain Albright knot? It’s slimmer and seems to hold just fine. 

I have not had good luck with this other than tying to backer.

[digitalvoid]

1 hour ago, Delaware Valley Tackle said:

Am I the only one that still uses a plain Albright knot? It’s slimmer and seems to hold just fine. 

Guess I could try the Albright. Looks like it's essentially the same knot, just don't make wraps in between the first set of wraps like the Alberto

[jcjunior]

Alberto knot is a good knot and simple to tie in just not a fan of connection knots in general but they are necessary sometimes

[islandbass]

16 hours ago, Delaware Valley Tackle said:

Am I the only one that still uses a plain Albright knot? It’s slimmer and seems to hold just fine. 

Funny you should ask that. I was just about to ask the same question. No love for the Albright is not alright, lol. 
 

The Albright is easy to tie and if I’m not mistaken it also works well for lines of varying diameters too. This is my go to knot for joining lines. 

Edited April 9, 2022 by islandbass
Grammar

[Deleted account]

On 4/9/2022 at 12:27 PM, islandbass said:

Funny you should ask that. I was just about to ask the same question. No love for the Albright is not alright, lol. 
 

The Albright is easy to tie and if I’m not mistaken it also works well for lines of varying diameters too. This is my go to knot for joining lines. 

Albright when wrapping mono, modified Albright when wrapping braid. The difference is the mod wraps in both directions.

[islandbass]

3 hours ago, Deleted account said:

Albright when wrapping mono, modified Albright when wrapping braid. The difference is the mod wraps in both directions.

Thanks. I’ll look that up.