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    The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Fresh and Salt Water
    The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Fresh and Salt Water
    The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Fresh and Salt Water
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    The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Fresh and Salt Water

    By Joseph B. Healy

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    Anyone who has spent time on the water knows that fishing success comes down to effective connectionsthe angler must first ensure that the knot connections throughout the fishing line are sound and appropriate for the task at hand. A failed knotpicture a wind knot tarpon leader made a huge silver king pulls hit a fly or a seven-pound bass pulls free because of a poorly tied attachment to your crankbaitwill bring your otherwise happy day to a screeching halt and leave you muttering about what might have been. In The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots, learn the knots of success, and why the connections are recommended by the country's top anglers. Some of the knots featured here include:
    Blood knot
    Perfection loop
    Improved clinch
    Double surgeon's
    Albright knot
    Whether you’ve spent a lifetime fishing the waters of the world, or this is your first season casting a line, The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots will be sure to help you get your biggest catch yet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateAug 15, 2017
    ISBN9781510721227
    The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Fresh and Salt Water
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    Joseph B. Healy

    Joseph B. Healy is an acclaimed writer and a traumatic brain injury survivor. He has worked as a consumer magazine editor since 1992, previously working as an editor at Outdoor Life magazine, the editor-in-chief ofVermont magazine, and the associate publisher at Fly Rod & Reel. He is currently editor of Covey Rise. Healy is involved with many fly-fishing and sporting organizations and often interviewed about outdoors-related topics. He lives in Vermont.

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      The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots - Joseph B. Healy

      Introduction

      I fell in love with the idea and concept of fly fishing many years before I actually began to fly fish. I grew up on a lake in Central New York, jigging for walleyes, casting Hula-Poppers for bass, and ice-fishing. Before that, I dunked worms for trout in area rivers. But even as a child, I always wanted to fly fish.

      For the curious conventional-tackle angler like younger me, fly fishing seemed more of a natural way to connect with the environment, it seemed more skilled than my jigging. Little did I know how good it would get, or where the craft would eventually take me. I’ve caught tarpon in the Florida Keys, silver salmon in Alaska, permit in Mexico, bonefish in Belize, Atlantic salmon in Ireland. All on flies.

      I don’t particularly like writing the above words, especially because fly fishing has also given me humility. I thrive on the connections with other anglers, with being part of the environment, with the fish (of course), with the movement and physical mechanics of casting, and with the intellectual challenge of discerning what the fish are eating … I truly love all that. I also feel gratified by the technical, endemic knowledge I’ve acquired along the way, a big portion of which includes knot tying. As my friend Phil Monahan points out in this book, the most difficult knots can—strangely—be the most gratifying to tie. I don’t include any truly impossible knots in this book. Phil is speaking of the Albright Knot (also known as the Albright Special)—a knot Phil ties well. And when Phil gives me a chance to tie it—he volunteered to be my designated Albright tier for a number of years when we worked together—I feel gratified by the having the skill to do it, too.

      I feel grateful to share the voices you’ll hear in this book—from anglers such as Flip Pallot, Jimmy Houston, Tom Rosenbauer, Steve Pennaz, Chico Fernandez, Jerry Gibbs, and others. Those interviewed for their knot insights in this book are not only great anglers, they’re also great human beings, and I am blessed to know them. Read and reflect on the advice they give. And, most important, practice your knot tying, using the illustrations in this book. It’s fun and gratifying (though maybe frustrating at the start), and each time you land a fish, whether it’s a ten-pound walleye or a hundred-pound tarpon, you’ll be pleased with the knot-tying knowledge you possess.

      When it comes to refining that knot knowledge and solidifying your muscle memory of tying knots, I’m reminded of a fishing experience I had while I was a journalist riding aboard Capt. Randy Towe’s flats boat in Islamorada, Florida, as Randy was guiding angler Pat Ford in the Golden Fly Tarpon Tournament one spring. Pat had caught a tarpon of about 155 pounds first thing in the morning, and hooked a second fish of probably about 120 pounds when his connection failed and the shock tippet came back with a curlicue. It happens, even to an angler of Pat’s vast experience; he has held umpteen International Game Fish Association records, including one for cobia that will likely stand for a long time—a sixty-seven-pound, four-ounce cobia on fly tackle, in the eight-pound test line class. He says the only things that connect you to a fish are the knots in your fishing lines—and those connections are only as good as you make them. He puts is plainly: "If you’ve got a bad knot anywhere in your connection, the line is only as strong as that knot. There’s nothing more important than your

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