A better fly to tippet knot

The recent thread on losing flies prompts me to post this. Here's a link to instructions for a knot that is easy to tie --even if you have bad small motor skills, weak eyesight, shaking fingers and low light.

I used to lose lots of flies with clinch and improved clinch knots. I've been using this knot for a couple of years and have yet to have it fail me.
www.flyanglersonline.com/begin/knots2/ weaversknot2.html

Try it --you'll like it!

For what its worth, I just got done tying said knot 3 times, tying a strand of
6x tippet to a small streamer. Then I pulled on the on the tippet until it broke. None of the breaks were at the knot. When I tried the same with an improved clinch it broke at the knot. It seeems like a strong knot to me.

How incredibly timely. I hate the clinch knot and have been wondering about other options a lot recently. I prefer the palomar, but it consumes too much tippet material with each fly change. I will definitely give this knot a try.

Thanks!

Daytripper, not that I've noticed. It's a very compact knot that comes nicely straight off the tippet.

Willi, when I have to intentionaly break off a fly that usually happens in the tippet somewhere or at the surgeons knot for tippet to leader.

I first found this knot in Mike Croft's excellent book "Trout Bum's Guide to
Catching Larger Trout". I'm really grateful for that and remain amazed it is not better known.

If you form the knot by sliding your left hand and forefinger up the tippet the knot will form just below your left thumb --so you'll end up with a tag end equivalent to the width of your thumb plus however much you had sticking out from your left thumb and forefinger as you tied the knot. For me that's about 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 inches. I follow a tippet is cheap and time on the water precious philosophy, so this doesn't bother me. Your mileage may vary.

I will. Does the knot end up with more bulk than, say, a 6-turn clinch?

Looks nice but in my mind's eye it seems to waste alot of tippet -- i.e. the tag end that you cut off will be quite long. Is this true?

I don't think the knot is well known enough to have been scientifically tested and I'm sure not capable of such tests. All I know is that it hasn't failed me yet. That makes it 95 % in my book.

I have lousy knot tying skills and fish in the winter when my fingers are sometimes shaking like crazy. This knot keeps me going and has yet to cause me to curse it.

Where do you breakoff then if not at the fly?

You'll use less tippet on this knot if you do the initial knot formation by sliding your left thumb and forefinger up the tippet rather than pulling down on the fly. Still, I'll trade some scrap tippet for more time actually fishing any day --and this knot lets me do that cuz it is fast for me to tie.