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United
States -Canada Fishing Knots
Education
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Brought to you By Dundee
Sportsman's Club Inc. |
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Slideshow Knots |
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This
is a collection of animated fishing knots that can help people
unfamiliar to tying nylon. It is very important to use good
knots when fishing with nylon because nylon can weaken
considerably if you do not tie a knot correctly.
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A very
good and simple way to cut nylon fishing line is to use a pair
of nail clippers, you can have them on a string and maybe tie
this onto your tackle box so you don't loose it. |
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Fishing Knots; just click on the name of the knot to see the
animated instructions. |
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The Albright Knot
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The Albright Knot is
primarily used for joining monofilament lines of unequal
diameters, such as your main line to a fluorocarbon leader or
shock leader. It is not an easy knot to tie but a good tight
Albright is small and won't catch on the rod guides during a
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Blood Knot
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Blood Knot: Maybe the most common way of joining two pieces
of nylon of similar thickness together. Wet the knot before you
tighten it. Very important that you tighten it evenly. Each turn
should , when the knot is tightened, lie even next to the
nearest turn, they should not cross each other |
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Blood
Bight Knot |
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Blood Bight Knot: This is a very useful not for creating
dropper loops, a good knot for targeting kahawai keeping the
bait off the bottom. The advantage of this knot is that the
nylon retains 95 percent of its breaking strain. |
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Butterfly
Dropper |
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Butterfly Dropper: Quick and easy to tie. Creates a loop
that will stand away from main line. This knot is most suitable
for lines with breaking strains of over 15 kilo. Make sure you
tighten this knot securely or it can slip. |
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Centauri
Knot
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Centauri Knot:This knot is principally used to attach hooks
through the eye to the line. Works well on a wide range of line
strengths and claims to retain 96% of breaking strain |
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Swivel
to Double Knot |
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Swivel to Double Knot: This knot allows you to attach a
swivel to a loop, a very useful fishing knot. |
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Dropper
Loop 1
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Dropper
Loop 1: This knot is very useful for keeping your bait off
the bottom, this is a very popular surf fishing rig. |
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Dropper
Loop 2 |
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Dropper
Loop 2: This is another version of the popular dropper loop
knot |
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Grinner
Knot
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Grinner
Knot: A very strong knot, great for tying swivels hooks etc
to the main line. |
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Half
Blood Knot
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Half
Blood Knot: This is a high strength multi purpose knot. It's
main use is to attach swivels, hooks and lures to the main line. |
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Half
Blood Knot 2 |
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Half
Blood Knot 2:This is a modified version of the original
Half Blood Knot |
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Hook
Snell |
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Hook Snell
- Quick and simple method of attaching line to a
hook with an up or down turned eye. Can only be used
with a free length of line as both ends must pass
through the eye. |
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Hook
Snood
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Hook
Snood - This is a high strength knot to
attach trace line to a hook. It's main advantage is
the hook will lay along the direction of the line.
Note that the length of the trace will be the length
of the loop. |
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Longliners
Knot
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Longliners Knot: For attaching a hook line to a continuous
heavy main line. Will not slip up or down the line |
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The Palomar
Knot
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The Palomar
Knot is another very simple knot for terminal tackle. It is
regarded by the International Game Fish Association consistently
as the strongest knot known. It's great virtue is that it can
safely be tied at night with a minimum of practice. |
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Perfect
loop
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Perfect loop
- One of the better loop knots and can be used on lighter lines
although best suited to the heavier. It will not kill the action
of the lure or fly.
Function: Connecting lures or fly to heavy leader, trace or
shock tippet.
Strength: Retains 70+ strength |
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Thumb
Knot
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Thumb Knot - A knot useful
for attaching hooks and rings to heavy line. May require some
practice to sequentially ease the loops off your thumb. |
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Spider
Hitch
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Spider Hitch
- A relatively easy method to create a double. May
require some practice to feed the loops progressively off the
thumb when forming. Reputed to retain 80% strength. |
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Uni
Knot
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Uni Knot - This versatile knot
can be used can be used for connecting hooks, swivels, rings and
lures. Its main advantage is that it retains virtually 90%
breaking strain. Easy to tie even in the dark after practice. |
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plastic coated wire to nylon |
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Attach plastic coated wire to nylon:this is a great knot
for attaching plastic coated wire leader to normal nylon
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Turtle
Knot
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Turtle Knot:This knot helps take the pressure off the eye
of hook and places it on the shaft. Commonly used on fly hooks |
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