EP 673: Why Every Saltwater Angler Needs A WEAK Knot...
Salt Strong Fishing
Joe Simonds
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Here at Salt Strong, we test, celebrate, and fish with STRONG knots.
However, some of the most strategic anglers purposely have a "weaker" knot in this one area to catch more fish.
Listen in and find out why.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Salt Strong podcast, Disrupting Fishing Entertainment as you know it. |
| 0:10.9 | Prepare to laugh. |
| 0:12.2 | Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way. |
| 0:16.8 | And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing. |
| 0:20.3 | Here's your host, Joe Simons, like diamonds. |
| 0:25.5 | Why every saltwater angler needs a weak knot. |
| 0:30.1 | Luke, what the heck is going on here, everybody? |
| 0:32.2 | Joe Simons, like diamonds, salt strong. |
| 0:34.1 | We got Luke. |
| 0:35.2 | What's up, dude? |
| 0:36.1 | Yeah, I've been doing a lot of knot tests. |
| 0:38.6 | And I have this new leader assembly trick that has skyrocketed my results. |
| 0:43.8 | And it just helped for easier fishing and really more efficient fishing. |
| 0:49.3 | So less time rigging, more time fishing, which equals more fish caught on average. |
| 0:54.3 | So it's totally opposite than what I used to. |
| 0:57.1 | I used to try to get the strongest knot for every connection. |
| 0:59.8 | And then once I realized, hey, like I'm wasting a lot of time retying leaders out in the water, |
| 1:04.5 | let me purposefully tie the knot closest to the lure, slightly weaker than everything else, |
| 1:11.1 | and life got easier. |
| 1:14.2 | All right. |
| 1:14.9 | This just goes against everything else we've talked about for 10 years. |
| 1:18.3 | It goes against our name, |
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