You can have all of those things dialed in perfectly, but if your knot fails, all of that research won’t make a bit of difference. Of course that starts not only with the right type of line—braid, ...

The recommended connection is a direct fluoro-to-braid knot, but the truth is I found tying the double-uni knot difficult, time-consuming, and unreliable. So I tinkered with small barrel swivels ...

There are three basic types of fishing line: monofilament, braid and fluorocarbon. Tournament angler LeFebre, 44, winner of the recent Walmart FLW Tour event and $125,000 on Alabama's Lewis Smith ...

And it holds knots better than both fluoro and braid. Last but not least, it's inexpensive compared to other types of lines--if you change lines frequently, as most good anglers do, this can be a ...

Which knot is best for me to tie two lines together—like a leader of fluorocarbon to a main line of braid? Originally, I had ...

Then you’ll need to know how to tie a back-to-back uni-knot to attach the fluoro leader to the braid. It’s an easy knot to find if you Google it. It’s the only knot I know of for tying two ...