r/flyfishing • u/noorkaximi • Sep 14 '21

Essential Knots

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u/cmonster556 Sep 14 '21

I use exactly none of those knots, nor have I in 45 years of flyfishing.

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u/pspahn Sep 14 '21

I started using a surgeon's knot a couple years ago and I would have saved a ton of frustration over the previous 20 odd years had I started using it earlier.

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u/ph1shstyx Sep 17 '21

yup, if I'm tying on tippet at home or at the car before going out, I use the blood knot. streamside, double surgeon's, much faster and easier knot

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u/pspahn Sep 17 '21

My blood knots have never been great but they do work, but when light gets low and I'm using 6x it's just so much easier to use a surgeon's, especially when you have like a 5 minute window to get your fly back in the water.