I'll try that.

I am going fishing in a few minutes and all I had was 10 and 12 Lb MONO, so I am using the 12 as a leader for now.

We''ll see how that works.

I use improved clinch with power pro 30 and never had a problem.

Caught Pike and the teeth never snapped it. Although have lost a lure on

the cast once and a while.

Got to be the knot.  Wet the knot just to be safe and try the Palomar.  It's the only one I use and it's been bullet proof so far.

It not the knot. I use a palomar knot on almost everything.

I found one of my lures (1-Minus) that I lost last week, and it still had 3-4" of braid on it.

that would mean either pickeral or another toothy critter or you need to check your line more often.

I am really leaning towards it being the Pickerel.

I caught a nice LMB about 15 minutes ago on the Rage Tail shad and got him in no problem.