[left]Here is a list of the most common knots & their general uses.
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[left]***1. ***Albright knot
*· *The Albright Knot is used to join monofilaments with different diameters. It is commonly used to join the fly line to the fly-reel backing line. It is well suited to slide readily through the guides when a fish pulls enough to reach your backing.
***2. ***Arbor knot
· Securing backing to reel spool
***3. ******Barrel knot ***
· Use to tie tippet to end of leader or to join sections of tapered leaders. More uniform than the surgeon’s knot, but also more difficult to tie and not quite as strong.
***4. Blood Bight knot ***
· The Blood Bight Knot is often used for attaching a dropper when fishing deep water with several
hooks.
***5. ******Blood knot ***
· a knot used for tying fishing leaders together; the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times
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***6. ***Clinch knot
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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***7. ***Davy knot
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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***8. ******Double clinch knot ***
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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***9. Duncan knot ***
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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***10. Harvey Dry fly knot ***
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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***11. ******Improved clinch ***
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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***12. ***Nail knot
· Used to join fly line to leader
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***13. ***Orvis knot
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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*********14. ***Orvis tippet knot
· Joint two pieces of tippet
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***15. ***Palomar knot
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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***16. ***Perfection knot
· Used to create a loop
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***17. ***Pitzen knot
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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***18. ***Rapala loop
· Used to tie leader directly to a lure
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***19. ***Snell knot
· The Snell Knot allows the leader, or tippet, to be directly tied to a baited hook
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20. Surgeons knot
· Use to tie tippet to end of leader or for the finer sections of tapered leaders. Quicker and stronger than the barrel knot.
21. Surgeons loop knot
· Use to tie loop in end of leader. Stronger and easier to tie then perfection loop, but not quite as small or neat
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***22. ***Trilene knot
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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***23. ******Uni knot "swivels and lures with a loop; and joining two lines. ***
· Used to secure tippet to fly
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Well I was bound to make a mistake or two. BTW the Orvis knot can be used to secure the tippet to a fly & the Orvis tippet knot to tie two pieces of tippet together.