I was talking to a guy in our club and he reties after every fish he catches during our tournaments (and I have seen him do it). He said the 1 min extra he invests to retie is worth not losing a big fish. The only time i break off is cranking and a walleye nips me clean, then again I usually have 12lb fluro leader on and not catching 5 lb bass alot. He says it only takes him 1 min, but I watch him and others around, it takes him at least 4 min. Is this common to retie??

heck no but I check and retie often .

Nope! But i do always check the line, especially after snags or thooty creatures. If i do find any wearing in the line then i retie.

I don't.  I do check my line after every catch or snag.  I only retie if it looks frayed or damaged.

No. (But if I were to ever use fluorocarbon, I'd retie 3x per fish...)

Definitely not. While I check my line often, and retie a good bit, it is nowhere near every bass landed.

No 

But if while casting I get snagged and had to work to get it back, or dragging a C Rig over rock, or casting through wood I'll cut and retire much more often if I get a fish or not. 

 

As far as after each fish caught Ill do it only if needed after checking the line.  

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

He's being overly cautious, which isn't necessarily a bad thing when you have cash on the line, but you do have to weigh the down time against the likelihood of your line being bad and make a decision. 

 

As for normal fishing (non-tourney), even with light leaders (fluoro or nylon) I've found I can frequently go 25-30 fish before failure, but as others have mentioned, I always do a quick check and will retie any time I feel it necessary.

Absolutely not! But I always run my fingers over my

leader to feel for any nicks if I've come through some 

cover. If there are any, I run over again with my 

fingernails as sometimes it feels like a nick in the line

but it's just detritus attached to the line.

 

I will cut the leader if there's a lot of abrasion after a

catch, retie then. But like Brian (@Team9nine) I can go

many catches before a retie.

No. I only retie if I need to retie. IE: The line is damaged.

...and turn a 100 fish day into a 50 fish day .

5 minutes ago, scaleface said:

...and turn a 100 fish day into a 50 fish day .

100 fish day !?!?!?!?!?!?!  I'd love to have a 100 fish season!

2 minutes ago, DogBone_384 said:

100 fish day !?!?!?!?!?!?!  I'd love to have a 100 fish season!

They are not that uncommon around here .

17 minutes ago, scaleface said:

...and turn a 100 fish day into a 50 fish day .

 

My thoughts exactly ?

 

After every fish or hang up I run my fingers up the line about 3 or 4' & retie if necessary. The number of reties varies!

Retie when necessary...Sometimes that means after every fish, sometimes after a few fish, sometimes without even catching a fish at all.  I'm not sure why anyone would try to assign a rigid number or schedule to it.  

It really depends on what and where I'm fishing.  Dock skipping, I'll probably have to retie often.  Drop shot on light line, I'll be retying often as well.  Jig or T-rig in weeds on braid, not so much.

I check my line for abrasion after every catch or snag just to be sure. I retie at least daily. If I'm catching big fish I will retie after several just to be safe. 

lotta great info so i'll only add i think of 2lb bass or less as tightening down my knot....and 3lb+ as weakening it.  i immediately retie after anything over 3lbs

Depends on where I'm fishing. Most of the places I fish have weeds which are less abrasive. So I don't retie after every fish. But when I'm fishing a crank bait around rocks, or any bait around rocks, I retie more than after every fish. Also if I'm fishing around logs.

Not me ..... leader check and move on.

However, I do normally replace a used leader before my next outing.

I usually retie after breaking off a $25 Megabass Vision

I can barely remember the times I've lost a fish or lure to my line breaking off.  I must not be as forceful as some.  Last time it happened was with a northern coming out of the water to grab my lure at the boat.  Was pretty funny.

Do you retie after every catch?

 

Depends on the catch ~ 

A-Jay

As a rule I check the line. But I'll admit there have been times when the bite was so good I forgot and a bass swam off with my best Spook. It happened last fall and I found the bait floating in the pond a few weeks ago. I changed the hooks and cleaned it and it's good as new.

11 hours ago, Weedless said:

I was talking to a guy in our club and he reties after every fish he catches during our tournaments (and I have seen him do it). He said the 1 min extra he invests to retie is worth not losing a big fish. The only time i break off is cranking and a walleye nips me clean, then again I usually have 12lb fluro leader on and not catching 5 lb bass alot. He says it only takes him 1 min, but I watch him and others around, it takes him at least 4 min. Is this common to retie??

Nope. I check my knot and the line and act accordingly. You want to be cautious, but you don't want to spend half the day tying knots. He could miss a big one by not having his line in the water in the first place.