How to Tie a Clinch Knot

The Clinch Knot is the most often knot used by many trout anglers.  This knot is primarily used to tie your hook onto your fishing line.  It offers more strength than a granny knot, so mastering this knot is essential to fishing.

The video below does a good job of showing you how to tie a standard clinch knot.  To make it easier to see how the knot is tied, the video uses a carabiner (instead of a fish hook) and rope (instead of fishing line).  But you should have no problem tying the clinch knot on your own fishing hook after watching this video.

While the video above shows you how to tie a standard clinch knot, this knot has been improved upon.  The "improved clinch knot" is very similar and only contains one extra step at the end.  The advantage of the improved clinch knot is extra strength.   The video below shows you how to tie the improved clinch knot. 

 

How to Tie Egg Loops

Egg Loops are a type of knot that are often used by salmon and steelhead fishers to attach a leader to the hook.  Salmon and Steelheader fishers like this know because it's strong and helps roe and shrimp stay on the hook longer.

If you've never tied an egg loop before, the videos will teach you how to tie it.  If you are familiar with tying the egg loop, you might find the "pimped out egg loop" useful.

 

For help in baiting the hook with roe, click here. 

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.