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by: JonClouse
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A lot of different fly fishing knots are available for your use while you're out on a fishing trip. Some of the knots you can use are the Arbor knot, the Albright knot, the Blood knot, dropper loop, nail knot and improved clinch. Each of these knots have a different purpose.

An Albright knot is used to join your fly line and your fly reel backing line. As you tie this knot, remember to wind your loops around the loop of the larger line in a neat fashion. This loop will pass through guides, so make sure that it is tied and wound well. Fishermen sometimes cover this knot with rubber cement, making it secure and smoother for passing through the guides on your pole.

The Arbor knot is used to attach your line to your reel (sometimes called an Arbor, hence the name). When tying these kinds of fly fishing knots, use a second overhand knot and wind your loop twice around your arbor before making the final hitch to secure it. You will increase friction this way, which is excellent for polished reels. This is one of the easiest fly fishing knots to learn and is one you will use very commonly.

The blood knot, another of the most important fly fishing knots, is used when you need to join two lines which are roughly equal in size. For instance, you would use this knot when joining sections of leader or tippet. There is more than one way to tie this knot, the best being to overlap the ends of the lines you are joining and twist them together about ten times. You can make a hole in the center of these twists and pass one end the opposite way through the hole. This knot, if tied correctly will be symmetrical in the middle. This is also an easy knot and will come in handy quite often.

One of the other basic fly fishing knots is the dropper loop. You can use this knot to prevent tangles in your reel line. With this knot, you make a loop in your leader as an attachment point for an extra fly. This loop is made by winding one line around the other at the overlap. This loop should appear to be symmetrical.

The nail knot is another one of the fly fishing knots you might need to use. This is most commonly used to tie two lines of different diameters together. You will thread the smaller line through the loops using a straw. It can also be thread using a nail or with a needle. This is a smooth and small knot which passes through the guides easily.

These are far from the only fly fishing knots which you will want to learn and use. You should learn as many different fly fishing knots as possible, each situation calls for a separate knot.

These fly fishing knots are easy to learn and will come in handy all the time - learn some of these fly fishing knots before you go fly fishing for the first time.

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