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Practical fishing knots /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Budworth, Geoffrey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Skyhorse Pub., [2010]
Subjects:
Fishing knots.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A knotting history
  • Fishing lines, old and new
  • Knot names
  • Terms and techniques
  • Knot tying tips
  • Section 1: knots for arbors, connectors, hooks, and lures
  • Arbor knot
  • Crawford knot
  • Non-slip mono knot
  • Rapala knot
  • Jansik special
  • World's fair knot
  • Palomar knot
  • Triple palomar knot
  • Clinch knot
  • Clinch on shank
  • Double clinch knot
  • Improved clinch knot
  • Improved double clinch knot
  • Swivel knot
  • Hook or swivel braid knot
  • Lock knot
  • Domhof knot
  • Quick snell knot
  • Silly snell
  • Basic snell
  • Improved basic snell
  • Section 2: fixed loops for leader systems
  • Angler's loop
  • Bimini twist
  • Plaited or braided loop
  • Surgeon's loop #1
  • Surgeon's loop #2
  • Figure-of-eight loop
  • Trombone loop
  • Blood knot loop
  • Section 3: knots for joining lines
  • Water knot
  • Surgeon's knot
  • Blood knot, direct
  • Blood knot, indirect
  • Linfit knot
  • Double fisherman's knot
  • Triple fisherman's knot
  • Albright knot
  • Interlocked loops
  • Plaited interlocked loops
  • Plaited or braided splice
  • Section 4: knots for fly fishing
  • Specialist fly knot
  • Trilene knot
  • Improved trilene knot
  • Turle knot
  • Two-turn turle knot
  • Turle knots (reinforced)
  • Nail knot
  • Emergency nail knot
  • Asymmetrical nail knot
  • Conjoined twin nail knots
  • Nail knot loop
  • A pair of nail knots
  • Needle knot
  • Needle knot loop
  • Blood loop dropper knot
  • Alpine butterfly loop
  • Linfit loop
  • Section 5: mavericks and mutations
  • Berkley braid knot
  • Cat's paw
  • Haywire twist
  • Big game loop
  • Torus knot
  • Improved blood knot
  • Mono to braid knot
  • Leader to wire leader knot
  • Huffnagle knot
  • Ligature knot
  • Tandem hook knot
  • Knotless knot.