Monday 16 March 2015

10 Most Important Fishing Knots Every Angler Needs To Know


Fishing is an easy job or it is the toughest one? What do you think? Well it is up to you how experienced you are and how often do you go for practicing fishing.

Here in this post we are talking about 10 proven fishing knots that we think will help you in becoming extremely versatile in bass fishing. These fishing knots will provide you a number of options for creating loops on lures, for joining the lines, making stronger connections and making quick solid knots when you are in hurry to go back into the water.

Here in this post we have given points on how to tie all the fishing knots and making it easy for viewing on phone out in the boat. If you are reading this link then don’t forget to bookmark this link.

Fishing is not something magic, no matter what commercials are telling you but there is no such magic around to perform your fishing things. It wears out and it builds up the friction as well, it will get scraped, nicked, cut, scratched out and everything else. Hence it is very important to retie the things.

We have spent our last year in doing puzzles like quizzing about the professional guides, avid fishermen and professional anglers to find out what things are mentioned most commonly and have used knots for bass fishing. Well in this post we have step by step instructions about how you are going to tie fishing knots that we felt are relevant to you.

  1. The Palomar Knot
    The Palomar Knot is a very simple knot that will help you in attaching a line to the hook or flying to a leader or the tippet. This knot is taken as one of the strongest fishing knots ever. After the loop has been passed through the eye, you can always tie an overhand knot with the loop.
  2. Improved Klinch Knot
    Pass the end of the line through the eye. Wrap it around the standing end about five complete turns. Pass the end back through the loop beside the eye. Then pass the end under the final turn. Tighten the knot and trim the end.
  3. Trilene Knot Tying
    For this you have to tag the end of the line through your eyes two times. Wrap it around five or six times at the standing. Now thread out the end through the original loop by the side of your eyes. Now make some lubrication and pull the knot really tight. Trim out the ending point but do not make it too short.
  4. Slip Knot
    Design a loop by making the line double onto itself. Now run the end tag in backward direction of the loop and lay down over the doubled lines. Now make one or two turns with the tag ends around doubled lines and with this get the new loop created.
  5. The San Diego Jam Knot
    This is considered as one of the powerful and overlooked knot in bass fishing. This Uni Slip is like a staple knot to be used among the saltwater anglers. This is like the knot of preference for a number of professional anglers who think that the Palomar knot has a number of shortcomings.
  6. The Snell Knot
    For this you have to end the leader through your eye and then have to move again in the same direction; Grip up your eye and both the parts of your line. You have to wrap the loop around the shank of the hook for more than 7 times. You can now shrink the loop by pulling the standing end. Lubricate both the ends and tighten the knots and trim at the end.
  7. Rapala Knot Tying
    With this you form an overhand knot within the line. Pass on the end of the tag through the eye and then bring it back with overhand knot. The best way is wrap the ending point of the knot three times around the standing end. Pass the back of the end with an overhand knot and then pass it through the loop that has just formed. Lubricate the knot and tighten it. Trim it from the end.
  8. The Eugene Slip Knot
    This is a special knot that is being taken from the Elite Series pro James Niggemeyer that is highly likeable. It is quick, simple and very strong. When you want to tie things, you start by passing the end of the tag through the eyelet and then you have to run it parallel to the mainline and then double it to form a very big loop.
  9. The Alberto Knot
    Alberto Knot is well-known amongst the Fisherman readers as their hardcore stripy bass surf angler, who is equally at home and is targeting a large black-fish and traveling south to wrestle for the trophy snook. It was nicknamed as crazy Alberto because of its extreme dedication, he never leave things on chance including the knots. This is the reason he created the Alberto knot and connects to heavy fluoro and mono leader to a braided gelspun line. It is taken as the best knot that is testing out at virtually 100 percent of all the unknotted line, and it is comparatively easy to form a tie, even if you need it at night with a headlamp for lighting up your work.
  10. The Two-Uni Join Knot
    This knot is specifically used by the anglers in both fresh and salt water fishing for joining their lines of different or similar strengths. It will work really well and some people find it very easy to tie than the Blood Knot. When you are tying it with a braided line to mono-filament, you have to make 8 turns with some slippery braided line and 5+ turns.

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Are You Ready For Ice Fishing? Let’s Gather Some Important Tips and Tricks

Fishing is fun but do you think the same for Ice Fishing as well? If you think both are same then I must tell you that there is a huge difference between a normal fishing and ice fishing. Normal fishing is not scary and dangerous but ice fishing is. In ice fishing the angler catch the fish by making a hole in the frozen lake or pond or any frozen water body.

Thursday 15 January 2015

Shake Up Your Fishing Skills This New Year

Hope everybody is enjoying the New Year and are trying their level best to fulfill their New Year resolutions. I am also working very hard with my New Year resolutions but they are a bit hard to manage. Never mind! Along with a number of resolutions, I have made one resolution with fishing as well. What are you up to people?  All the fishing lovers out there what have you decided to do with your fishing skills this year? Although I never had any plans for what to do rather it was always very easy for putting all the fishing related stuff that irritates me and then hoping that things might find the audience that will get something from it.

Saturday 10 January 2015

Let’s enter the New Year 2015 with some fishing memories of 2014

With every passing year I feel that Time flies like a ray of light. It feels like it was yesterday when I started working and started writing fishing articles for my readers. The year 2014 was really a memorable one and I really liked the way my readers read and liked my posts. Don’t worry fishing lovers I have lots more to give you this season. We welcome 2015 with great warmth and love and will go for fishing in a new way and new style.

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Let’s Try Fish Attractors This Time

Do you love fishing? People generally like fishing because this is the only sport that is a bit relaxing and full of enjoyment. Fishing is actually fun. But what if these days your fishing skills are not working properly and you are failing in catching fishes for yourself? Every time same pattern for catching fishes won’t work. Well this time we have something new that will help you in catching fishes. They are called as Fish attractors. Let’s find out what these Fish attractors are and how you can use them for catching fishes:

Fish attractors are the equipments that you make yourself for attracting fishes towards you and then catching them for your own use. You can use these fish attractors in both fresh water and salt water fishing locations to catch fishes. Well this is really a wonderful method for improving your fishing in your local lakes.

Thursday 6 November 2014

5 Amazing Tips for Catching a Big Smallmouth Fish without Fail

Well every fisherman must know this that there are two types of smallmouth bass – big smallmouth fishes and other than this. A smallmouth is every other thing which is greater than 5 pounds. These small mouths are hard and they are smarter. They cannot be seen very often.

Wednesday 29 October 2014

10 Proven Tips to Catch Your Desired Fish

If you want to catch a fish this weekend then you have to do some efforts. Yes a little effort can bring your favorite fish home that you are planning to have in your dinner. If you are a beginner then in this post we are discussing 10 Fishing Tips that will help you in catching fishes easily. When you want to prepare a wonderful and tasty fish fry, you have to follow the given tips sincerely.