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congratulations Scott that is one nice fish. someday I am going to come up that way and let you show me where you keep hiding all those big fish.
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Nice fish Scott.... But tell me now all these big fish you keep taking pictures of are really your pets that you got stocked in your private pond and you feed them high protien food with daily shots of steriods
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Tony
Nice fish your'e making me want to make a trip down there.
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At 11pm Jun Gaston Lake.Nice camping and great fishing.
Nice fish. Where do you camp at and are you fishing at the camp ground
John
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Nice fish and you make a much better picture than Colin
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An important facet would be whether the pull was steady, or a sudden sharp pull. Do you recall?
The test was done both ways. One was with a machine that applied steady pressure until the line broke. The other was a jerk test to see how lines and knots would perform when setting the hook. The palomar and the trilene knot out performed everything else on the jerk test. The uni-knot lost a little on the jerk test but still performed well. I think the reason the palomar and the trilene did better was they have two loops of line going through the eye of the hook.
John
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chipmacdale,
Did you ever test out the Albright Knot by any chance?
The testing was done back in the early 80's, so a lot of the knots we tested and some info I have forgoten. I can't remember anything about the albright. I remember the info about the knots that I use and do remember that there were only 2 knots that were 100% line strentgh. Palomar and the Triline knot. The testing was done on a machine that recorded the pounds of pull at break and was done with all the major brand mono on the market at that time.
I use the uni-knot when connecting two lines together and I have never had it break.
John
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The uni-knot is a great knot. I also use this knot and if my memory serves me correctly, when I tested them for Berkley the knot was 97% line strength.
John
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Many years ago when I fished a lot of bass tournaments I got the chance to be a line tester and at that time we tested every major brand of line and every knot that we knew was being used by fishermen. The lines have changed a lot since then but the knots are the same. The palomar knot was the strongest knot with any mono tested, it was 100% or more of line strenth. If you tie your line to something with a palomar knot and pull the line until it breaks the line will break every time not the knot. I used a slip knot most of the time when I bass fished because I could tie it in 2 seconds and the polamar took me 4. But in carp fishing the time is not that important. The slip not is a good not ( 98% line strengh ) and I still use it the most , mostly out of habit.
John
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mirror 29
common 22
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Phone and Newt are you guys getting too old to tell the difference between the sexes.
John
The bloodpressure is up
in Beginning Carping
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BILL
First off ya might want to try and upgrade your tackle to zebco 404's and I know your knowledge of advanced baits is second to none but sometimes carp do prefer a different brand of can corn. OH! and did you check the water temp, it was above 50 or you are just wasting your time. Let me know when you are coming to NC this summer and I would be honered to spend a day with ya teaching ya the fine art of carp fishing, PAYLAKE STYLE