Fishing Knots for Fishing Reels

There are a lot of different knots used in fishing - especially, if you're a fly fisher. Different knots are often used to tie line to your fishing reel, leaders to your line, hooks to your line, etc.

Anglers using spinning reels often use a double overhand knot to tie their monofilament line to their fishing reel. And there's nothing wrong with since it's rare to run out of line when spin fishing. However, it can be a bit difficult to get the line around the spool tight enough so it will reel.

Fly fishers usually use the arbor knot to tie backing to the fishing fishing reel (backing is added before the fly line).

The arbor knot is very simple to tie and be used on fly and spinning reels. Follow these steps to tie your backing or monofilament line to your fishing reel:

1. Wrap the line around the reel
   
2. Make an overhand knot around the line
3. Make another overhand knot at the tag end of the line
4. Pull the lines tight (the small overhand knot in step 3 will hold the line in place once you cinch the knot in step 2 tight)

This is one of the easiest knots to tie and is the perfect fishing knot for fishing reels.

For more information about tying fishing knots, click here.