knots.
 

my fishing hobby has me looking at knots.

my oldtime go-to knot was the clinch knot, which is now not even a thing!! its a ***** to tie with aging eyes.

my new knot is the Palomar. and the Arbor knot for tying line to a reel.

clinch knot is the Blockbuster video of knots.

I once saw a longshoreman tie a bowline knot in a 3 inch diameter line. One handed. While holding a cup of coffee.

I didn't know what it was called, but I've been using a Palomar knot for decades. It's hard to get the double line through on smaller hooks, so I thread the hook eye with a single line, then go back through the eye again forming the double line.

People always around sail boats amaze me sometimes. Remember well one time aboard a friend's boat in the Caribbean. We pulled up to the water dock, I tossed a line to the kid working there. Stan started to instruct the kid on how to cleat...kid gave Stan a disgusted look, and still standing, cleated it one handed and perfectly.

You have to get the knot around the knott.

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/50/e9/78/5...w-the-knot.jpg

Like we use to say in the Navy;

Two kinds of Knots: Maybe it going to hold, May be "not"...

This is a fantastic site.
https://www.animatedknots.com/

And if I remember correctly from when I got into knots several years back (I was a boyscout, so it was fun to refresh), the Ashley book of knots is THE knot book of all knot books.
https://archive.org/details/TheAshleyBookOfKnots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashley_Book_of_Knots

I’ve always been terrible with knots. The only one I can do in my sleep is a trucker’s hitch. I use it all the time.
The Ashley book is great.

We weren't on a sailboat. We had just taken a 'ship' out of the mothball fleet up near the north bay in San Francisco. I can't remember what kind it was, but it was a lot bigger than the privately owned ex-Coast Guard cutter that was being used as a tug boat. We were docking pretty much under the bridge of the freeway that goes over to Treasure Island. I do remember that it was winter time and it was cold, damp, and oh yeah, did I say it was cold?
Had quite the experience of exploring that 'ship' since it was dark as it had no on-board power.

That would be the San Francisco Bay bridge. Great story!

I use mostly the improved cinch. Pass through the eye, spin a few times and run tag end thru the loop twice.

The Palomar, have you ever tried threading the double line through the eye of a #18 dry fly? Good luck at my age and eyes.

Between the eyes and the hands usually being cold from cold trout waters I’m going with the easiest thing to tie.

I lose way more tackle to line breaks in a snag than it coming untied.

When yer fishin'....any knot is a good knot imo. Sometimes the fish win....and knot you :D

Got this from my mom when her BF passed away. Was not a huge fan of the dude, but I sure appreciate his Ashley Book of Knots. 600+pages of knots and I don't have to pause a video every 5 seconds to learn a knot. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1591792259.jpg

Nice! That's a score.

I use a bowline a lot....but why ain't it pronounced

Bow line :D

Did it originate in a bowlin' alley?

for fishing, I like to knot it as a loop for everything, from hook to weight etc, so it can be easily taken off when I am done and the line is not easily break. left page, middle pic second roll

Fliggin Flaggin fishin knots piss me off! Just give me a damn knot that keeps the hook on the end of the line and let me go fishin! My nephew knows no less than 100 different knots for tying a hook onto a line... I swear!

Double the line... run it through the eyelet... Twist the line but leave a loop big enough to run the hook through then pull it tight. Or some sort of nonsense like that. Like I said pisses me off.