i use the polamar knot on almost everything i tie on with the exception being spinnerbaits and i use and improved clinch knot on them. I very rarely ever break off fish and i hardly ever re-tie. i have a way that i tie a polamar that will not burn the line and i use floro with the knot too. i have caught plenty of large stripers with the polamar in the river where you have to crank the drag down and you are fighting current so i think that my way works pretty well. I don't want to jinx myself but i do not believe i have ever broken the line at the knot with a polamar.