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While taking fishing tours on the Putorana Plateau, visitors to the Siberian nature reserve can learn various ways to rig spinning rods or fishing poles. They learn how to catch various large salmon trophies, and perch and pike are hardly worth mentioning.
Therefore, special attention is always paid to proper fishing tackle and safety while rafting. To land a predator weighing over 10 kg, reliable knots, rods, and other equipment are essential. Let's take a look at one of the most powerful and reliable knots, the "trailing" knot.
Why is trailing better than clinching?
When comparing clinch and trailing, experienced anglers note the significant advantage of the second option, which is expressed in the following:
1. Clinch knots Clinch rigs and similar grippers are secured with a single loop at the hook eye and swivel. The best clinch rigs have a bond strength of around 85%, which isn't considered particularly reliable, for example, when hunting taimen.
2. When tying a double clinch in freezing temperatures, the angler can get frostbite on their fingers and hands without completing the knot. Furthermore, a small-diameter loop can cause numerous problems when threading the doubled line through it.
Given the weather conditions on the Putorana Plateau, it's safe to say that this option is considered quite challenging. Therefore, anglers often use other available rig options, such as the trailing line.
Advantages of trailing:
- This unit does not have the disadvantages described above;
- The bond strength is approximately 95%;
- The loop, threaded in the usual way, is secured with two grips;
- When threading, the line does not fold in half, making the process easier and simpler;
- The most important advantage of the knot is that the reliability and strength of the thread does not depend on the diameter of the line, large or small.
Due to the advantages listed above, the Trailin is often compared to another reliable knot called the Palomar.
How to knit a trailing rope?
Some anglers sometimes confuse this rigging technique with the improved double clinch, but this is incorrect. Any single-grip rigging technique (clinching) only has one grip, while the trailing rig looks like this:
- We take the fishing line and thread its end through the eye of the hook;
- Create a small loop and thread it through again;
- Using the free end, create about 7 turns around the fishing line;
- We wet the thread with water and thread the free end of the thread through the double loop created at the very beginning, and then tighten the knot.
Beginners may struggle to tie a thread knot the first time, but after a few tries, a secure, sturdy knot is sure to emerge. You can practice first with a line of a comfortable diameter.
Conclusion
This is what a trailing knot looks like, considered by many anglers to be one of the most reliable. It got its name from the fact that the first knots were made using a similarly named line. Its advantages will be appreciated by guests visiting the reserve's rafting routes, and the trophies caught will delight with their weight and length.
