Commercial fishermen use lines, or ropes, for a variety of purposes. Boat anchors, nets and buoys all need to be secured and safely managed. A working knowledge of knots is a necessity. If you open a ...

Last Thursday, we discussed terminal knots for tying fishing line to hooks and lures. For specialty applications, you often need union knots to join different types of line, or to tie a dropper line ...

Tying the strongest fishing knot isn’t only about the knot itself. The line you choose matters every bit as much, and thanks to remarkably advancements in the recent decades, you have choices when it ...

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