I tie 1 knot 99% of time and I have never known it to actually fail.

Sounds like you did not get the tag end through the correct loop and off into the wild blue yonder your bait went.



R I P

Well, I've been reading this and I've watched EVERY knot tied on that knot tying website and I think I've discovered something interesting. I think I tie a knot that may not have a name?? I don't even know who taught it to me. I have tied dozens of knots in my years of fishing. I spent most of my life with the palamar and the improved clinch........but when I got serious about fishing and started fishing more fluorocarbon, I found that I must stink at tying a palamar slowly or wetly enough to consistently be reliable. WAYYYY too many break offs at the knot when setting the hook on a fish within 20 feet of the boat. Probably my fault, but just ticked me off. And I wet the [censored] out of the line and pull tight slowly EVERY time. But, I stink at it clearly!!

Sooooooooooo.............100 years ago or so, I went to a knot that I'd show you, but I'm too dumb to video or photo and post. So, here's a bubba's attempt to explain. I'm curious if you guys think this knot has a name. Cuz, I can't find it anywhere. Here goes.....

I take the tag end through the eye. Bring it back up, and pinch the tag end with the tip of my forefinger and thumb, leaving like 12 inches of tag end line hanging loose. I have the main line also pinched near the bend of my thumb to hold it in place. But the bend of the tag end is near my finger and thumb tips, about to form a loop in a second. Now, I have the bait hanging 5 inches or so below. I take my right hand on the tag end end and spin the bait and make 8-9 loops around the doubled line just above the bait, in between the bait and my fingers holding the line. This forms a little loop at my fingertips with the tag end portion above the looping. After 9 loops, I run the tag end through that little loop at the top, THEN through the longer loop that I just formed by running the tag end from the last of the 9 loops around the double line up to the top loop in my fingertips. So, up and through that top loop, then reach a right hand pointer finger over and bend that tag end down and push back to my palm and through the loop that just ran up alongside all 9 "wraps".

I don't know if this knot has a name. But if there are millionaire people on here that fish and everybody reading this all try it and agree it's never been tried before and now ALL agree it's the best and most efficient, easiest to tie, and strongest knot EVER....like I think..............AND it's a new tournament winning, make you better looking, tougher, and richer kinda person..............I'd like the knot to be called the "Yancey Knot" and I'd like the royalty checks to be sent towards St. Louis!!!

In reality, I'm sure it's a regular knot, but I'd like to know the name of it, so I can stop telling my friends it's called the "stupid knot I tie that never fails and I can't remember who taught me knot".

Tight lines all!!!!
Yancey