TO DO THE TWIST OR NOT TO DO THE TWIST. THAT IS THE QUESTION!!!

[sportfishingusa]

I have been so frustrated lately with not tying a bimini twist in over 3 years that when i got back to it today i thought it would be like riding a bike but apparently not!!

Is there anything else anyone uses that is just easier than doing the old bimini twist?

When i do the loop and twist then when i press it together i can not get a tight roll anymore

very sad to admit it but someone help!!! PLEASE!!

[Glenn W]

The absolute key is having a proper work area and a tight (locked) line off the reel. Whether you do the ole step and spread the knees thing or loop around the reel handle and use your your free hand to slide up the twist.
Which method are you using to do your twist and we can give suggestions from there?

[sportfishingusa]

i use both depending on where i am.. i am in my office right now and i got the rod in a rod holder with a tight striker to hold it tight..

I have gotten it tight but ending it now is giving me a problem... i did the final four loop turn and tightened it up but it went after probably 50lbs of pressure it slipped down.. i dont know. maybe i am going nuts.. lol

[Glenn W]

sounds like the angle of the first loop back down is not enough---- when you get the downward twist to start, the first turn has to be a sharp angle downward and tigher than holy hell so the rest of the twists have something to garb onto ( so to speak) and thus, so it won't slide when it's all done and under pressure.

Practicing with light line is alot easier to get back into the swing of things. Good luck.

[sportfishingusa]

Thanks buddy!! did you get my pm i sent you?!

[Mokarran]

I use the spider-hitch which is stupid fast and easy. I am told that it won't hold up in a long battle with a big fish as well as a bimini. I've haven't had one fail yet but I will retie after a fish over a grand. I am usually tying it in 100# mono catching sharks, nothing really fast.

[Captain Michael Buffington]

I use the spider-hitch which is stupid fast and easy. I am told that it won't hold up in a long battle with a big fish as well as a bimini. I've haven't had one fail yet but I will retie after a fish over a grand. I am usually tying it in 100# mono catching sharks, nothing really fast.

You retie after fish over a grand...unless you are one bad ass mo fo, thats not that much retieing. Be that as it may, google australian braid or ask a good captain to show you how to tie it. We have been down this road before, but the bimini is outdated and down right sucks against a braid. O.K. let the responses go, tell me I'm wrong...
Mike

[Tuna Taxi]

i use both depending on where i am.. i am in my office right now and i got the rod in a rod holder with a tight striker to hold it tight..

I have gotten it tight but ending it now is giving me a problem... i did the final four loop turn and tightened it up but it went after probably 50lbs of pressure it slipped down.. i dont know. maybe i am going nuts.. lol

Don't do it in an office, you've got that all wrong. Focus, man, carry your ass to the pit.

Now I've watched Glenn tie many a bimini, hell he even tied one in a spinning reel catching bait in the slip. The key is 8-10 coronas, a cig hangin out of your yap coming very close to burning thru the mono (I'm not gonna tell you what brand, cuz its sorta ladyish), and when you're holding the loop tight it will most likely include kicking a folding chair into the nearest high-gloss teak finished part of the pit. If you're not doing that, you ain't tying a bimini.

So pm all you want, but you gotta tear some shit up to tie a bimini right!

[Mokarran]

You retie after fish over a grand...unless you are one bad ass mo fo, thats not that much retieing. Be that as it may, google australian braid or ask a good captain to show you how to tie it. We have been down this road before, but the bimini is outdated and down right sucks against a braid. O.K. let the responses go, tell me I'm wrong...
Mike

What I was trying to say was that I use the spider hitch and like it but, because I have read that it doesn't hold up nearly as well as others (to be cautious) I retie after every trip or a large fish(I didn't mean that I use it b/c I have to retie alot).
For me that is a Tiger Shark, which doesn't fatigue a knot as much as a Marlin or Mako half that size. Though we usually do get a couple of sharks that size a season it is a result of having a good location and not my unspectacular bad-ass skills. I apologize for not speaking more clearly. I will check out the Australian braid since i've been meaning to learn a more dependable knot.

[gaffer]

Don't do it in an office, you've got that all wrong. Focus, man, carry your ass to the pit.

Now I've watched Glenn tie many a bimini, hell he even tied one in a spinning reel catching bait in the slip. The key is 8-10 coronas, a cig hangin out of your yap coming very close to burning thru the mono (I'm not gonna tell you what brand, cuz its sorta ladyish), and when you're holding the loop tight it will most likely include kicking a folding chair into the nearest high-gloss teak finished part of the pit. If you're not doing that, you ain't tying a bimini.
So pm all you want, but you gotta tear some shit up to tie a bimini right!

Some things do get better with age - knots ain't one of them, but knot tyers are....