Albrights vs. nail knots

[backman]

<P>Scott Hamilton who guides out of Fla and who potentially can be putting his sport onto a 50#+ hour + fish disdains nail knots as &quot;there's nothing holding them in place other than the line coating&quot; a feeling I agree w/.&nbsp; He uses albright knots instead to secure line to backing as well as in his leader system.</P><P>I learned albrights as working 9 twists of the lighter line around the doubled up heavier line; front to back, after thr 9th twist coming over and thru the loop in the heavier line.&nbsp; His approach was back to front on those 9 loops (-12&nbsp; in his case) which is a lot cleaner looking knot than mine.</P><P>Whats the right way to form the series of twists - work forward from the back, or work backwards from the front?</P><P>Oh - BTW - his leader system - 4-5' of 60# test looped to the line and class tippet.&nbsp; 3' of 20# class tippet bimini looped to the butt section.&nbsp; 12&quot; or so of 40# shock leader albrighted to the class tippet.</P><P>For kingfish he uses a 3-5&quot; wire trace instead of the shock tippet.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P>

[bassman]

Hi Larry...I have always done my Albrights back to front with the lighter line. It is a great knot and I have yet to have one fail........

[DFix]

Sosin/Kreh : Practical Fishing Knots -
through from under loop to right-
under to left, over to right till wrapped, down through loop. Is that right to left?
Ande Mono booklet: opposite way, looks the same finished.

[jeffg]

Larry,
just curious, does he albright the leader butt to the fly line or loop-to-loop. As I recall, waaaay back on this forum, you stated an albright would not work in such a scenario unless there was a reverse clinch in there or it would slip. I've never had an albright slip, but don't really want to find out the hard way either and am trying to reduce my loop-to-loops to streamline my leader system...

Thanks,

jeff