Fishing knot ID...

Cliff · Post by **Cliff** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 12:37 pm

In 1954, on our first family camping/fishing trip, my Dad taught me this knot to tie spinners on light line. I have used it exclusively for the last 65 years. I have searched online and never found this knot described or named. The closest I have found is a knot named “Fish N Fool”. If any of you old timers out there recognize the knot my Dad taught me and know the name, let me know! I did the best I could to draw it on my computer...

Burke · Post by **Burke** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 3:33 pm

My dad taught me that same knot in the 1960's and I used it too for a number of years. Don't know the name of it.

I had a thought….my dad served in the Navy during WWII. Was your dad in the Navy? If he was, it might have been something they tied.

Cliff · Post by **Cliff** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:01 pm

Yes Burke, my Dad was in the Navy in WWII! I don’t know where he learned this knot though. It has served me well on light lines (2-8 lb test), even the new slippery ones like Nanofil. It does not seem to pull together neatly on heaver test lines. I sure would like to find the name of this knot(it must have one, right?). Thanks for the Navy clue! I’ll keep searching...

Grncrestliner · Post by **Grncrestliner** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 7:05 pm

I found one on You Tube for Berkley Nanofil called the Unifilament Knot that looks like it. Clearly you learned that knot long before Nanofil existed.

Viking · Post by **Viking** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 7:09 pm

Looks like a double line Improved Clinch Knot to me. Very common knot with single line, not so much with doubled line

Cliff · Post by **Cliff** » Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:53 pm

Way to go Grncrestliner! That’s it! But I guarantee Berkley did not invent that knot for their NanoFil line since I was using it in 1954! You have no idea how long I have searched for a reference to that knot. Thank you. Now I still wonder where my Dad learned it or what it was called back then?

WRB · Post by **WRB** » Fri Dec 28, 2018 3:14 pm

Back in the 50's monofilament line wasn't commonly used, Dacron braid was the most common fishing line. Variations of the clinch knot were popular and a knot known as the braid knot was what I learned to tie. The braid knot is basically a double line clinch knot.
Tom

mark poulson · Post by **mark poulson** » Sat Dec 29, 2018 2:50 pm

WRB wrote:Back in the 50's monofilament line wasn't commonly used, Dacron braid was the most common fishing line. Variations of the clinch knot were popular and a knot known as the braid knot was what I learned to tie. The braid knot is basically a double line clinch knot.
Tom

We used to use our old dacron fishing line in our chalk boxes to make really fine framing layout lines on concrete slabs.