Outdoors: Fishing knots 101

Learn to Tie These 5 Essential Knots

The ability to tie a good fishing knot is one of those skill sets that everyone heading to Ontario’s Algoma Country needs to master.

Apparently knot tying isn’t as interesting as lures, boats, motors, electronics and a host of other fishing topics, because rarely do anglers preach about knot tying skills.

Ironically, it’s the fishing knot that insures the fish that bite, end up landed and gracing the pages of Facebook.

Without at least a basic grasp of the common fishing knots and how to tie them, most of your fish stories will be focusing on the one that got away!

Improved clinch knot

The improved clinch knot is easy to tie, and without question the most common fishing knot out there.

Frequently used to tie on small lures like walleye jigs, the clinch has good knot strength and will hold nicely when used on any monofilament, co-polymer or fluorocarbon line.

The improved clinch knot works in a wide variety of fishing situations, but it doesn’t hold well on fused and super braid lines.

- Mark Romanack

Read the full article on how to tie 5 Essential Knots.