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crimping small line or braid?
Due to my diabetes my hands are shot and I am not really able to tie knots any longer, and if I can mange to do it, it takes forever to do!
So I was thinking of using crimps, but I am not sure I can hold and thread a crimp and if you can use them on small mono or braid?? Most of my rods have braid and I like to use it. Thanks just thinking out loud
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06-21-2009, 07:27 PM
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I have used crimps before on mono when making up leaders so I don't see why it wouldn't work on most mono's since crimps come in all sizes.
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06-21-2009, 09:03 PM
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MJ can you exagerate the knot with big loops to do it or no
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06-21-2009, 09:16 PM
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MJ, have you tried to tie a uni Knot.
http://www.proknot.com/html/fishing_...a_bid=902f65a5 (the rapala knot is a good one for artificials) It took me a while to get the hang of it, I used a clothes pin to hold one side of a uni to uni till I could get it tight. I ;like using it for flouro to braid, then tie an improved clinch knot for the terminal end of the flouro leader. I've gotten now that I can tie a uni as fast as any of teh other knots I use. I've been trying to use the Worlds fair knot, but have had trouble with the hook eye being large enough for double line http://shoreangling4u.tripod.com/knotguide/id23.html
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06-21-2009, 10:32 PM
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A Palomar knot is about the best I can do now and the big loops help a lot, but on cool days my hands really don't want to work.
I have my daughter snelling my hooks for me, but I still have to tie them on when I get a break. Most that I fish with will tie for me, but I feel like a fool not being able to tie and other times when I have my wife or nephews they don't know how to tie. I am going to a freinds tomorrow that has the pliers and stuff and see how it is to pick up the crimps and give it a shot.
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06-22-2009, 05:43 AM
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Careful with those crimpers big fella. Remember;
YOU JUST HAD A HEART ATTACK!!!!!!!!  
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06-22-2009, 06:06 AM
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Excellent idea getting the hooks snelled ahead of time!
I'm just concerned the crimping is gonna be even more aggravation to have to put up with. One knot my father showed me that has a lot of practicable purposes is the Surgeons Loop (from the sites that spare posted). It's not an exceptionally strong knot but it is a quick knot that can be tied in rough seas, in the dark or when your hands and/or eyes don't want to cooperate.
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