Fishing Knot Library
Beginner to Advanced Fishing Knots
Terminal Fishing Knots
Whether you are looking for an easy fishing knot for your child, or the strongest knot for fastening a hook, take a tour. These knots are great for connecting all terminal tackle. We have generally illustrated the knots with an 80lb smoky blue coloured monofilament line. This will show how some fishing knots may struggle to form on thicker lines especially monofilament and fluro carbon fishing line. Using the menu above you will be able to access data on each knot. You will find videos on how to tie the knot, a knot overview and knot testing. If in doubt compare your knot to the photos where you will find 4 views. Enabling you to do visual check if you are struggling to tie any particular knot
Moderate to Advanced
Loop Knots
Coming soon.
Moderate to Advanced
Line to Line Connections
Such an integral part and cornerstone to any fisherman’s knot library. Line to Line connections are crucial and play a key role when joining your leader material or rig material to your main line. Modern day lure fishing and fly fishing normally either have a length of Fluorocarbon or Monofilament connected directly to the main line or another section of shock leader. There is and endless library of line to line connections, some really easy to ti such as the Surgeons
How strong is your knot?
Tensile Strength Testing
Have you ever wondered what the maximum load your fishing knot or fishing line can withstand prior to break. Thats exactly what we do at Toit Fishing. We will be releasing a series of videos capturing actual scientific data about each and every fishing knot we review. All the data will be shared with anyone who supports our channel and wants to improve there knot tying skills. Hoping to provide you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about selecting the right knot for the specific line type. Watch our Series of “WORLDS STRONGEST KNOT”, where we will be testing every knot to destruction and we have embarked upon the largest independent knot and line testing program to ever take place on YouTube.
Our Testing Parameters are as Follows:
- Enviroment - Temperature controlled room, calibrated scientific equipment, bi-annual calibrated Load Cells, Clean working enviroment. Repeatable and controlled process will eliminate human error as much as possible. This will in turn help us provide results that actually mean something
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Graphical Analysis - displays showing and reporting maximum load at fracture or sample break, measured in pounds,and the elongation of the test sample.
Machine accuracy/repeatability +/- 1 Newton, which equates to 0.22Lb, incredible really. - Raw Materials - 3 Broader groups of fishing lines to be tested will be Monofilament, Flurocarbon and Braid. We will use 10lb, 30lb, 50lb, 80lb and 100lb to form a wide range of results on various diameter lines and textures to give a bigger help to all that want to know more. This will give every angler the knowledge to see how knots behave differently as the line thickness increases and the pressures and forces exerted on the lines increase the stresses with the knot and line itself all behave uniquely.
- We want to test as many knots as we can and keep an area for all fisherman to visit and refer to. Providing you with the data to make informed decisions within their fishing enviroment.
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Batch testing on all raw material samples. We use we use a 750mm long piece of line from clamp end to clamp end, to test the base fishing line. The overall specimen line is approximately 1000mm. For the knots it is slightly shorter, the gauge length(free length or un-clamped length) is 450mm long and total length of 600mm.
We also check the Baseline measurement for each batch of lines, this is the true 100% Knot strength or the maximum load the fishing line (with no knot in it) can withstand prior to break.