Two or three inspectable options for this job. Failure notes are the compromises, not decoration.
Palomar Knot and Uni Knot fit this job too closely for the model to separate. The order is not a verdict — choose on the failure notes below.
Same rules. Switch knots without running it again — hold the trade-offs side by side.
Doubled bight through the eye, overhand in the doubled line, loop passed over the hook, seated to the eye.
Doubled bight through the eye, overhand in the doubled line, loop passed over the hook, seated to the eye.
Relative ordering from weighted judgement. Not a retention figure, not a probability, not measured.
answer confidence low
Strong for the job you described. Next: Uni Knot, strong.
A relative ordering from weighted judgement, not a strength figure.
The famous 'Palomar is a 100% knot' claim dead-ends in publisher assertion — NetKnots calls it 'close to being a 100% knot' with no method or sample count — and the one IGFA-lab figure we could read (79.08% on 20 lb braid) is for an entrant's double-loop variant, not the plain knot.
Nothing in the job you set pulls two of its needs against each other.
Fewer than three answers given, or this knot has no connection model behind it yet. More answers is what raises it.
What if the wind picks up and your hands go cold? Palomar Knot still leads. Field fit is Strong under that change (Strong here).
- ·Level with Uni Knot on weighted field fit (Strong). It is printed first on alphabetical order, which is the last thing left when nothing separates them — not because it fits better
- ·Fast field retie
- ·High strength when seated
- ·Strong connection-job fit (86)
- →Even opposing pressure with moisture on mono/fluoro; doubled coils stack at eye
- →Tension profile: moderate. Slip sensitivity: low.
- →Failure-sensitive stage: passing doubled line
- →Failure-sensitive stage: overhand dressing
- !The loop is left on the bend or against the bottom of the eye, so the knot seats crooked. NetKnots warns it can fail tied that way.
- !The final pull was fast and dry, and mono or fluorocarbon heated and weakened at the knot
- !The tag has been drawn back inside the coils, where it can cut the line at the eye
- !The coils cross each other instead of stacking evenly against the eye
- !Needs eye large enough for doubled line
- !Not ideal: Eyes too small to pass the doubled line
- ·Eye too small for doubled line
Written about Palomar Knot itself, not about this job. Nothing here ruled anything out.
Uni Knot Strong
Palomar Knot leads on user proficiency fit (92 vs 75) and field tieability (85 vs 78). Uni Knot still holds an edge on material compatibility.
- !The loop is left on the bend or against the bottom of the eye, so the knot seats crooked. NetKnots warns it can fail tied that way.
- !The final pull was fast and dry, and mono or fluorocarbon heated and weakened at the knot
- !The tag has been drawn back inside the coils, where it can cut the line at the eye
- !The coils cross each other instead of stacking evenly against the eye
48 knots ruled out · 2026-11-06 19:44:28Z
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Doubled bight through the eye, overhand in the doubled line, loop passed over the hook, seated to the eye.
01Palomar Knot
StrongPalomar Knot leads on user proficiency fit (92 vs 75) and field tieability (85 vs 78). Uni Knot still holds an edge on material compatibility.
Line through the eye, doubled back into a loop; tag wraps inside that loop; barrel slides to the eye.
02Uni Knot
StrongVersatile
Doubled line through the eye; wraps around both legs; tag through the end loop.
03San Diego Jam
GoodSingle pass through the eye — no doubled line required
04Berkley Braid Knot
GoodDocumented terminal job from Hook the Horizon library
Three crossings through the eye form a lock. Tags exit opposite the standing part.
05Eye Crosser Knot
GoodDocumented terminal job from Hook the Horizon library
What separated these options
1 · Palomar Knot
2 · Uni Knot
3 · San Diego Jam
4 · Berkley Braid Knot
Ordered by how much each axis separated these options, not by its weight. A heavy axis every candidate scores the same on decided nothing. The bar is the score; the number beside the axis is what that axis was worth in this situation.
- Tie in the field, weight 0.9: Palomar Knot 85, Uni Knot 78, San Diego Jam 62, Berkley Braid Knot 61. Highest: Palomar Knot.
- Skill needed, weight 0.8: Palomar Knot 92, Uni Knot 75, San Diego Jam 66, Berkley Braid Knot 75. Highest: Palomar Knot.
- Material, weight 1.2: Palomar Knot 83, Uni Knot 96, San Diego Jam 83, Berkley Braid Knot 88. Highest: Uni Knot.
- Eye / hardware, weight 0.7: Palomar Knot 70, Uni Knot 75, San Diego Jam 92, Berkley Braid Knot 75. Highest: San Diego Jam.
- Job fit, weight 1.4: Palomar Knot 86, Uni Knot 86, San Diego Jam 94, Berkley Braid Knot 91. Highest: San Diego Jam.
- Under load, weight 1.2: Palomar Knot 90, Uni Knot 85, San Diego Jam 88, Berkley Braid Knot 82. Highest: Palomar Knot.
- Retie speed, weight 0.6: Palomar Knot 84, Uni Knot 84, San Diego Jam 68, Berkley Braid Knot 68. Highest: Palomar Knot.
- Failure margin, weight 0.9: Palomar Knot 70, Uni Knot 70, San Diego Jam 62, Berkley Braid Knot 70. Highest: Palomar Knot.
Every scored dimension, every surviving option, side by side. Weighted order — the top rows are the ones actually deciding this call.
What if the wind picks up and your hands go cold?
Palomar Knot still leads. Field fit is Strong under that change (Strong here).
What if this connection must pass through the guides?
Palomar Knot still leads. Field fit is Strong under that change (Strong here).
What if you had to rebuild it every twenty minutes?
Palomar Knot still leads. Field fit is Strong under that change (Strong here).
What if you were tying this with unpracticed hands?
Palomar Knot still leads. Field fit is Strong under that change (Strong here).
Where the catalogue went
Every connection in this discipline was checked against the job you set. This is what removed the ones you are not seeing — press a band to read them.
54 modelled · 48 ruled out · 6 survived
A knot that fails more than one constraint is counted once, against the most fundamental one. Nothing here is a score — these are the checks a connection has to pass before it is ranked at all.
State the job.
We’ll say what holds.
The job
What is physically being joined.
Line and leader
The line decides what is even allowed.
Single-side job
This connection only needs a main line — no leader for this job. Switch to a two-sided join to declare both sides.
On the water
Only the conditions you tap count.
Region
A starting guess for US water. You can still change every condition — it never forces a knot.
No region picked
Where you are
Water first, then how you are standing. You can still change the conditions.
Optional. Changes hands, stability and retie tempo — not the water chemistry.
No place picked
The job
What is physically being joined.
line to hook · braid
