Power Pro and super glue
Found this on another forum and was wondering how you folks feel about braid and glue. I glue my knot at the head mainly in hopes it will help the jig stay horizontal. I have not noticed it being weak. Haven't been using braid long tho.
I had never heard of "Glueing" a knot on fising line untill just tonight, April, 5, 2006. It was brought up on another thread when we got into a debate about super lines. I was told that some fishermen would put a drop of Super Glue on thier knots to keep them from slipping.
Then I understood where our dissagreement was coming from. I've never experienced the problems another fellow was telling me about and I accussed him of jerking too hard.
My appologees.
But, thinking of this knot glueing thing, I wondered that maybe the glue itself was the culprit of my friends woes and could it be the blame for all his line snaps?
I pulled a little experiment here in my kitchen. I took a short lenght of line, 10 pound test Power Pro, and suspended a weight from it. Then I rubbed a drop of Super Glue onto the line and let it dry. Then I bounced the aproximently two pound weight on the line a little as if an average fish were struggling against it and "POP!". My weight hit the floor. Sure enough the line failed where the glue had been applied.
I know that many glues can act as a solvent to palomars and most types of plastics. In plumbing pipes that's how they bond two pieces together, by actually melting them slightly allowing the seperrate piecies to resolidify as one.
I susspected that the Super Glue was weakening the line by breaking it down in the same manner. To me, my little experiment was proof positive.
Granted, this was just a prompt too experiment and was far from under controlled conditions. But if you have any doupts then try it for yourself. If need be I can try it again this weekend with several lines and a proper controll group and document my results, but for now I'm satisfied.
Don't glue your knots!
Muddawg
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Southern Sickle Jigs Pro Staff