What Knots For Tieing Soft Plastic Jigs?

[emetic]

Basically what kind of knots work best for soft plastic jigs.

Is it best to go for a loop knot like when tieing off a hard body lure so that the jig can move freely, or a normal fixed style knot that you would tie a hook with.

cheers

[andrew399]

I normally just use a uni knot or locked blood knot and never head any problems

[Hodgey]

G'Day mate

I use the same knots as Dicko for jig heads, poppers and larger hardbodied lures (for flathead), directly to the towing point. I tie SX40s, smilin' jacks and sammy/NW pencil-type surface lure with a large loop knot. I find the loop knot helps in the 'walk the dog' method of retrieve for the sammys/NW pencils especially. If you are not a big fan of the loop knot, you can always use a reliable lure clip instead.

Cheers

Hodgey

[yakfishing]

Uni's good, strong, reliable and easy to tie

[Josh88]

Depends whether the plastic has much action or not.

Can always use a uni but pull the knot tight before it gets down to the jig head so you still have a loop in the line

[robeebee]

loop knot

gives more action definitely

[daleyboy]

Loop knot for small plastics aimed at bream and flatties etc

Uni knot when using large plastics tageted at kingies etc

[Nolongeramember]

Loop knot is definitly better for more action but they tend to be be weak knots in my opinion. I still prefer to use an unlocked blood knot (very strong) to keep it simple and dont worry about the slightly dimishished lure action.

If you want maximum action I would use a good split ring first then a blood knot to that.

P.S. always tie knots to split rings around the section with 2 parts of wire and it will never open under pressure.

Edited November 14, 2008 by Roylo