One might want to read the Sport Fishing (I think that's the title) articles on testing
of various knots in August's (September's?) issue. There were a great many test cases
--lots of lines, lots of repetition--, and some interesting results. The magazine escaped me
before I got a good look at it (hesitating at the $5 initially), so I don't know more; but I
did see that the results for the same knot ranged broadly, and there was some suggestion
that knotted line could be stronger than unknotted, odd as that seems (to me this suggests
some issue with the anchoring, but I don't know the details).
I think that the recent testing done here was in conventional mono & braid, and that done
a year or so ago was in the hi-mod "gel-spun" HMPE stuff.
--dl*
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