Hey everybody. Welcome to How To Tuesday brought to you by Dan Coe pliers.

We are back at the tying bench going through Instagram videos looking at these not videos that are incredibly

popular and then putting them to the test because the only way that you can

really know is to actually tie them and test them on a machine. Most of the knots, the

common thread with the Instagram videos is that they show you how to tie the knot but then they say something

like it's a very strong knot.

How will you really know?

The only way you'll really know is to test it.

Control the controllable, that's the way you become a better angler and that's what we're doing today.

This knot is from one called underscore CTR fishing.

This one has 1,173,221 plays and it is essentially a lefty-cray non-slip monoloop,

but instead of just doing a single overhand, you do a double overhand

to start or you go through the overhand twice, which will make a figure-aid if you pull it

tight, or you can just do it like this.

We tied this knot and it came out at 74%.

So we tied it with 15 pound Diawa J Floro, tied the knot, tested it on the machine, and it broke at 11.11 pounds, which is 74%.

So I'm giving this knot a big F because the Lefty Cray non-slip

mono loop is one of my favorite knots for bonefish flies and any other

light leader type loop knot and it is known to be a 95 to 100% knot so putting the extra turn in the

overhand knot is not giving this knot more strength it's actually taking strength away.

Those are my findings. Will you use this knot? Are you one of the one million people that have seen this

and will now tie this knot this way? Are you sticking to the original lefty-cray non-slip mono loop?

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