lb test on a reel question.

[TreeDoc]

Damn! GOB....that's some fine illustratin' there! That looks to be a "modified" or at least a similar knot to the "Trilene Knot" which is what I have always had success with. To each his own in the experience department but as I understand it, both the rilene and Palomar knots are supposed to be 100% knots I believe however, when I was using the Palomar knot and had break offs it would always seem to fail within the knot. The Trilene knot would occasionally fail just above the knot. When I started fishing P-Line, I couldn't break my line if I wanted to! One time during a tournament I was Doodlin' on 10# P-Line and got hung up in the rocks. My partner was yellin' at me to break it off so we could keep moving. I tried everything to get it to break and it wouldn't so I tied it off on a cleat and he hit the trolling motor on high. You wouldn't believe how far we traveled before that line finally snapped off (just above the knot, mind you), it was amazing. He asked me what I was using so I told him. The next time I saw him he was spooled with nuthin' but P-Line!