Would someone please enlighten me about this.

I have tried tying bowlines and sheetbends in mono and both work well, these 2 have quite high break strains so why not? I can tie these in seconsd but struggle with other ones

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Well, actually the US Coast Guard, what 'nots' (couldn't resist, even in the header) do you have in mind?

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As long as they hold when your latched onto a fish,why not (pun intended)

Neil

The double blood knot or surgeons could be done with a sheet bend, doubled for different diameters.

And a a bowstring knot, its the closest googleable name I could find for the knot I was thinking of instead of a perfection or surgeon loop

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