Best knot for tying mono to a hook
The commonest knot in fishing and the one most often tied dry and trusted anyway. Mono forgives a lot; seating it wet is what it asks back.
Palomar Knot
Strong field fit · 80% · 38 ruled out first
Why it wins
- ·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)
Watch for
- !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
Also in the running
- 02Uni KnotVersatile80%
- 03Davy KnotDocumented terminal job from Hook the Horizon library79%
- 04Centauri KnotDocumented terminal job from Hook the Horizon library78%
Pick Uni Knot instead 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.
What changes the answer
The same question with one condition added. Each row is its own engine run.
- Cold, wet handsHolds
- Wind and boat motionHolds
- Low lightHolds
- Retied all dayHolds
- First time tying itHolds
How sure this is
Low confidence: this question states only a few conditions, or the top knot's strength figure isn't traceable to a published test. Add your own conditions in Decide to sharpen it.
38 of 61 modelled connections were ruled out by hard constraints before anything was ranked. A knot that fails a constraint is never scored, however strong it is elsewhere.