The next issue with covid 19, fishing supply shortages.

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I’ve had the modified Albright fail on me many times. Blood knot never, what I love about the blood is that it will fail if you tied it wrong before it even cinches, so you know.
 
Dungee Fishing said:
I’ve had the modified Albright fail on me many times. Blood knot never, what I love about the blood is that it will fail if you tied it wrong before it even cinches, so you know.
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That would be nice to have it fail at the cinch. Alberto usually fails if you don’t finish through the loop the way you started.
 
when I fish offshore I tie the FG or the modified Albright.
When fishing light line, I really like the double uni. It’s easy to tie and I have total confidence in my knots.
 
I went fishing with Gary Senft at Bartlett lake outside of Phoenix. I used to tie my braid to floro with an RP knot. Kind of like the Alberto. Gary uses three half knots. Three mono to mono and three braid to braid. Sounded too simple but it's clean and it doesn't fail. The half knot is just like when you start to tie your shoes. I switched. It works.
 
Havalina said:
I just went by sportsmans warehouse and Walmart. I am in the Cache Valley. They are both hurting for fishing supplies. Walmart was out of jigheads, fluorocarbon, and weights.
Sportsman's had some stuff but their stock was incredibly low. I asked an employee if they were just letting the inventory run down due to lack of sales. He stated that they were backordered on everything that comes from china. The bright side Walmart had all of the toilet paper, I could want. Then the rapala site is not not shipping to the U.S. While I don’t recommend hoarding, I would stock up on your fishing essentials for the summer.
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Running out of fishing supplies is not going to be a problem for me. I have stuff that I have had for years that I have not even tried. What may be a problem is finding stuff to fish with that is not made in China! I for one am going to seriously look at labels before I buy/support certain brands or countries. I have always been a big made in the USA guy, but sometimes we simply just don't have a choice. Their are several brands that I have used for years that are USA products or really good products that are not made in China. Here are a few. Power Pro braided line Is or used to be a Grand Junction company, I heard that they were recently sold, and when I looked at their site, it mentioned Shimano? P lines make a great fluorocarbon line and leader. They are a Japanese company. Z mann baits makes lots of stuff, what I use mostly of theirs is the TDR bait - ned rigs. They are made in South Carolina. Rapala lures used to be made in Finland. Don't want to get too political here but if for no other reason if the Chinese were honest about this disease to start with, we could of all been fishing all year long. I encourage fellow fishermen that have favorite baits that are made here in the good old USA to list them so others could support fellow American workers!
Power pro fishing line comes with a small brochure that shows a variety of knots that work with their product. It however does not come with a pair of reading glasses that are needed for old farts to see to tie them with.
 
Scheadhunter said:
8 turn uni to uni works fine. If you want to get fancy tie the FG or the RP knot. But the uni to uni works great, super easy and 100% knot. Just put 8 turns or more with the super light lines
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Uni to uni is the best knot imo connecting different diameter like braid to flou or flou to wire, and easy.
 
Maybe I’m overcomplicating it or oversimplifying it, you be the judge: Why bother with tying the two lines together when you can just use a small swivel? Keep the leader short (24” or less) and pay attention so you don’t reel the swivel into the first guide (no harm really if it is a very small swivel though).

Advantages? You get to stick to your proven, fail proof, knot you tie everything else with. The swivel will help prevent line twist. Bonus, if you want to fish two small crappie jigs in tandem you can tie two leaders, one short, one long, onto the bottom of the swivel and you have a three way rig.

I personally only use braid these days and always tie it directly to my lure. I don’t buy the whole “fish are or can be line shy” theory one bit 🤣. Anyhow just another option some might not have thought of (use a swivel)
 
Mudcracked said:
Maybe I’m overcomplicating it or oversimplifying it, you be the judge: Why bother with tying the two lines together when you can just use a small swivel? Keep the leader short (24” or less) and pay attention so you don’t reel the swivel into the first guide (no harm really if it is a very small swivel though).

Advantages? You get to stick to your proven, fail proof, knot you tie everything else with. The swivel will help prevent line twist. Bonus, if you want to fish two small crappie jigs in tandem you can tie two leaders, one short, one long, onto the bottom of the swivel and you have a three way rig.

I personally only use braid these days and always tie it directly to my lure. I don’t buy the whole “fish are or can be line shy” theory one bit 🤣. Anyhow just another option some might not have thought of (use a swivel)
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After the swivel knocks the guide insert out on your rod, and the resulting bare metal ring effortlessly slice through braided line, you stop using swivels ;) I had this happen on a trip to Panama, and lost my jigging rod for the duration. Those big saltwater fish will tear your arms off, and really test the strength of your connections. You learn to tie strong knots.

If you do use a swivel, be sure that it is big enough that no part of the swivel can fit into the the insert on the rod tip....
 
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