Originally Posted by
TinarooTriumph
BarraBoy - The single strand Braid approach with the Slim Beauty... do you do 5 turns foward and 4 turns back to the figure of 8 - how do you do it? I have read about 6 different ways of tying this bloody knot and I have my own way of doing it... 6 turns foward and then thread it straight back through the first descending wrap with a single strand of 30lb Bionic (love Bionic)... no turns back to the figure of 8, unlike everything else I have read. I have never really been able to tie it properly with the double and for a solid rainy, foul day I tried for about 4 hrs to tie it correctly! Thats when I thought bugger it I will stick with my Bimini to TD Leader Connection knot. The Slim Beauty is about the only knot that has really stuffed me up... can tie everything else with ease but it! Always stuck with the Tony Jones/Yucatan knot for quite some time, but the TD is so dam slim and looks pretty trick when you go to pull it together!
Cheers
Theo