How to Make a Fishing Knot
- 1). Send the end of your fishing line--known to veteran knot-tying anglers as the tag end--through the eye of your hook or lure. Pass the tag end through far enough so that you have plenty of line to use while making the knot, especially when you are first learning the clinch knot.
- 2). Wrap the line you passed through the eye around the standing end of the line. The standing end is the line coming out of your fishing pole and into the eye of the hook or lure. Make at least five complete wraps around the standing end. You may make as many as seven or eight if you desire.
- 3). Make the loops around the line in such a manner that they form a neat and compact spiral. Hold them in place with your fingers as you form the loops.
- 4). Identify the very first loop that formed when you began to wrap the tag end around the standing end. This opening will be right next to the eye of the hook or lure. Take the tag end of the fishing line after completing your wraps and thread it through the loop next to the eye.
- 5). Slide the series of spiral wraps down the line with your finger and thumb as you pull on the tag end of the line. This action will tighten your clinch knot. After the knot is secure, take your line snippers and trim the exposed tag end back close to the knot. Avoid cutting it too close. Leave a tiny bit coming out of the knot so the knot will not slip out.
