Where, on line, can I buy an easy to understand, fishing knot tying book?
I need some insrucktions, on how to tie a line to line blood knot!
I’m sure there are any number of knot-tying books, but knots are notoriously difficult to illustrate on the page. Unless you have a chance to look at the book to find out if you can easily understand the illustrations, buying a knot book is gonna be a crapshoot.
I would go to your local fly shop (if you’ve got one) and ask one of the people there to demonstrate a blood knot for you. I don’t mean go to the Wal*Mart fishing aisle, I mean go to a fly fishing shop or a tackle shop where the workers are anglers and are eager to help even if they don’t sell you something. Watch someone tie the knot and and then try it yourself. Practice a few times there in the store. Look around the store and see if they have a little knot booklet — I found some little plastic cards that I keep in my vest that have been helpful over the years, though lately I carry it around in order to let others borrow it rather than my own reference:
http://www.knotcards.com/html/fishing_knot_cards.html
The second part to this answer is that there is a vast amount of online resources to help you learn to tie Fishing Knots. As long as you’re online looking for knot books, just bring your line to the computer and take a look:
http://www.animatedknots.com/indexfishing.php
http://www.troutlet.com/Fishing-Knots-W21.aspx
http://www.orvis.com/orvis_assets/files/index.html
There are others, too, and each one will show you the knot in a slightly different way. Once you tie a blood knot maybe five or six times, you’ll have it down. After that, you just get better and faster at tying it.
