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[left][#008000]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 [url "http://www.killroys.com/knots/surgeon.htm"]surgeon's knot[/url], but also more difficult to tie and not quite as strong.

4. Blood Bight knot
· [/#008000][#008000]The Blood Bight Knot is often used for attaching a dropper when fishing deep water with several
hooks.

5. Blood knot
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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 [url "http://www.killroys.com/knots/barrel.htm"]barrel knot[/url].
21. Surgeons loop knot
· Use to tie loop in end of leader. Stronger and easier to tie then [url "http://www.killroys.com/knots/perfecti.htm"]perfection loop[/url], 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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wow... so many knots.. so little time.. [sly]

MacFly [cool]
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[indent]An error in semantics of a name:

The Orvis knot secures the tippet to the fly.

The Orvis tippet knot secures the tippet to the leader.

see the Orvis Website - their animated knots page:

[url "http://www.orvis.com/orvis_assets/files/index.html"]http://www.orvis.com/...ets/files/index.html[/url]


Here are two short videos on how to tie the Orvis Knot

[url "http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6060009456755954379&q=orvis&hl=en"]http://video.google.com/...mp;q=orvis&hl=en[/url]

[url "http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6468992826826237915&q=orvis"]http://video.google.com/...26237915&q=orvis[/url]
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This is one of the strongest knots I have tested. I use it a lot.
It forms a small knot and thus goes well with size 22 - 32 flies.
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[font "Garamond"][#008000][size 4][blush]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.[/size][/#008000][/font]
[center][url "http://www.neffguide.com/knots.html"]http://www.neffguide.com/knots.html[/url]
[left][font "Garamond"][#008000][size 4]I also incorrectly identified the use of the Palomar knot which I have since corrected.
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