 How to Tie a Double Uni Knot -- The double uni knot is just a modification of the single uni knot, and it is a common knot used by most anglers. It is best used when tying two lines of similar or the same diameter, but it can be used for two different sizes.
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 How to Tie an Albright Knot -- The Albright Knot is commonly used to join a fishing line of different diameters - the classic example is joining a flourocarbon leader with braided line. The reason for its popularity is because of the Albright's ability to pass through guides.
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 How to Tie a Blood Knot -- The blood knot is used to link two lines of the same diameter together. It is often used to make the line on the reel of a fishing rod longer or possibly to add a leader to a line. It is only usable when the two lines are the same size though. If the lines have two different diameters, you should choose the Albright knot as the clinch of the knot is designed so that the smaller line doesn’t slide out of the larger line.
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 How to Tie an Improved Clinch Knot -- The Clinch Knot is one of the standard knots used by anglers to secure a hook, lure or swivel to a fishing line. It has been around for a while and is one of the basic knots an angler should know when first starting out.
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 Hot to Tie an Arbor Knot -- Based on the name alone, it’s easy to see what the arbor knot is used for. Its most practical use is to attach a fly line to the arbor, or fishing reel. It’s one of the most basic knots for an angler to learn and not very difficult to learn.
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 How to Tie a Dropper Loop Knot -- The Dropper Loop Knot is a popular knot as it creates an inline loop in a line that can be used to attach leaders, hook bait rigs and lead sinkers. Bottom fisherman like to use it because it can be used to attach a lure or rubber worm right above a jig. It’s also great to add several hook bait rigs on the same line.
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 How to Tie the Eye Crosser Knot -- The Eye Crosser Knot is one of the strongest knots available when tying a hook to the end of a line. They call it the eye crosser because it can look a bit confusing while it’s being put together, but it really isn’t as hard as it appears. Watch this short animation and you will see how easy it really is to tie this knot.
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 How to Tie The Nail Knot -- The nail knot is commonly used to secure two lines that are of different diameters. It is closely related to the Albright knot, though it can be a little more difficult to construct. It works great for attaching a leader to a fly line, and it is actually preferred over the Albright knot because of its smooth finish once it is done.
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 How to Tie The Non-Slip Knot -- The Non-Slip Knot is logically named because it is designed to prevent slipping when attaching a lure to a line. It is one of the basic fishing knots a person uses whenever they first start learning how to tie knots. This knot can be great for tying surface plugs, sub-surface lures like trolling lures to monofilament line.
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 How to Tie the Offshore Swivel Knot -- The Offshore Swivel Knot is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, way to attach a swivel or snap swivel to a double line leader. It’s practically guaranteed never to break, and even if there is a malfunction in one of the lines, it is wrapped so tightly around the other line that the will still hold.
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 How to Tie The Palomar Knot -- The Palomar Knot is used to join a line to a hook, swivel or lure. The International Game Fish Association regards it as the strongest fishing knot known. That says a lot about this knot since there are a lot of knots used for fishing. Making the knot only takes a few steps.
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 How To Tie A Rapala Knot -- The Rapala knot was developed by the Rapala Company, and was intended to be used with Rapala lures. This knot doesn’t impede the lure’s action, and allows it to run true and look more realistic during the retrieve. Using other knots to attach lures may restrict the action and decrease its effectiveness. Although it was originally designed to be used with Rapala lures, it is versatile enough to be used for other types of hooks or lures as well. It can be used to attach monofilament and fluorocarbon leaders.
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 How to Tie A San Diego Jam Knot -- The San Diego Jam knot, also known as the Reverse Clinch knot, is a knot that has stood the test of tuna fishermen from South California. When you refer to the San Diego jam knot, you refer to an extremely strong knot, a knot that is often preferred by big game fishermen, so you know that its reputation as a strong knot is well validated. It is often used to secure your hook directly to main lines. It can also stand heavy iron lures often used to catch tuna. But its strength doesn’t sacrifice flexibility. Even though it’s strong, you can tie it easily.
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 How To Tie A Snell Knot -- The Snell knot is considered a hitch knot and is primarily used to attach a line to a hook. It attaches itself to the hook by wrapping itself around it, resulting in a strong knot which can be done in seconds. It is one of the older knots that was developed in Great Britain many years ago. It was developed to solve the problem of most hooks not having eyes. Even though hooks nowadays have eyes, the snell knot is still useful today. Mainly because of its 100% hook strength and reliability.
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 How To Tie The Pefection Loop Knot -- The Perfection Loop Knot is a knot used to conntect hooks, lures and swivels to fishing line. But, is most often used by fisherman as a quick connection between leaders and the main line. The Perfection Loop Knot is tied at the end of the leader to reduce the time a takes to switch them out while on the water. With this knot in place, switching leaders will only take seconds.
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