New Animated Knots

Chit Chat
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A few weeks ago I announced on this forum the addition of climbing knots to my animated knots website. I received much critical and valuable feedback from you all. Many thanks!

I am now announcing the addition of Animated Fishing Knots and request similar expert comments and advice about:
http://www.grogono.com/knot

To save you the trouble of asking: no, I am not a fisherman myself, which is one of the reasons I am very keen to receive your input.

Thank you and best wishes, Grog

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I’m sorry to say that when I clicked on a knot heading, the page took so long to load, I gave up.

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Hi Roo, It is usually my problem… dial-up and a slow one at that. Give Alan’s site another shot sometime.. I am really enjoying it! :wink:

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hello Grog…
…the pages loaded instantly for me…excellent
graphics…i don’t do the snell like your instructions
but there are no doubt several ways to snell a hook
…the instructions i use are in almost any tide book…
…i have a new fly rod and i’ll be using those knots!..
…you might post the uni-knot…it is a great fishing knot!..
Dan-Alaska

..sorry…i see you have the uni-knot…i make 2 wraps
around the hook eye…

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Hi Alan, ;D

Your site is really superb and your animations of knot’s pictures are perfect! 8)

I lilke it. :smiley:

With my friendships, :wink:

Al

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Hi, Alan. Below are a few comments on the angling knots.

  1. The Palomar knot has been presented in three forms:
    as you’ve shown, with the bight end around the hook;
    as Sosin & Kreh specifiy, with this bight slid back around
    the knot body;
    as Budworth has shown, with the bight up around the SPart
    (sort of Pile-hitch-like).
    I’d go with , as those guys actually fish(ed).

  2. You show the Blood knot in what Barnes calls “outcoil” form,
    and it is best shown (and tied) incoil–the wraps beginning at
    each end and working towards the tuck in the center
    –which in any case IS the form that the knot will assume under
    tensioning, in common materials used in angling.

  3. To assert that “The Double Surgeon’s Knot can only be tied …”
    is going too far: any knot can be tied with ends, though in this
    case, with fiddly fine & springy fishline it would be a bother.
    Better is “The is tied with … , as the … IS passed …”

  4. It seems that the material you’ve used is chosen for presentation
    aspects (distinct colors!), but isn’t so much like common angling
    materials. Thus, some of (most of … ?) your knots aren’t set in the
    form one should expect in the field–e.g., the Dble.Surg. Loop
    should be symmetric, with the extra turn spilling into a lone wrap
    around the knot body (as in the Grapevine, Strangle).
    You might be able to coerce such forms in your material?!

<5> Now, as for what actually happens with the Uni Knot,
I"m still unsure–it is a form of multi-overhand, but … .

Thanks,
(-;
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This site is great even for slow learners like me, I can follow these directions :wink: