What are the best fishing knots for saltwater fishing rigs?

Jun 23, 2008 by kschamiz | Posted in Fishing



These are sites I use to update myself on knots! The bimini is not a general use knot and is not needed for most applications.

http://www.netknots.com/index.html
http://www.carlylelake.com/Fishing/Knots /index.htm
http://www.fintalk.com/fishing-knots/

Injun | Jun 24, 2008

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what is the strongest fishing knot to use for saltwater fishing ...

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College Boy,

I don’t saltwater fish but I do a lot of freshwater Fishing , and the strongest knot I have found is the Palomar knot. It doesn’t take TOO long to tie it, but if you have bad eye sight or your using small hooks or lures, you can’t really fit your line through the eye easy. (With the Palomar, you actually kind of "bend" the line and make it so that it’s a "loop", and you stick the "loop" through the hook eye.) Here’s the link to how to tie a Palomar knot ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiDDdW22X9k

For small fish I would much much prefer a Clinch knot. Link to how to tie a Clinch knot ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn0sy9KxvEQ

depends on what you want to tie on, the most common knot used to tie hooks is the locked blood not, or the snell, both knots are easy to tie. For tieing doubles i use either a bimini twist or plait. The locked blood knot retains most of the lines breaking strength. but...

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