The Improved Clinch
Start by passing your line through the eye of the hook or lure. Next wrap the tag end up the main line at least 5 times, 7 is better.Next take the tag end and pass it through the small opening in the line under your first wrap near the eye of the hook and bring itback up through the loop that is now formed at the top of the knot. This is what helps improve the cinching of the knot so it won’tsleep as easily. Then slowly pull the tag end tight after you wet the line to cinch the knot down. This knot is always tightening on itself.If you cut too much tag end off, you can run the risk of the tag end slipping into the knot itself and unraveling or breaking. It’sbetter to leave a 1/16-inch or more tag on this knot. You can double the line before tying the knot and do the same thing to makeit more slip resistant.
The Palomar Knot
Start by doubling your line and passing it through the eye of the hook or split ring. Next tie a simple over hand knot with the looped end around the main line. Now pass the loop over the hook or lure and flip the loop up over the main line and tag end. Finally pull the tag end slowly after you’ve wet the line with saliva or water until the knot cinches down. When you pass the doubled line through the eyelet make sure the main line and tag end are straight and not criss-crossed before you tie your overhand knot. When you tie the overhand knot, don’t snug it down on the eye. Just get it close and then pass the big loop over the lure. Then when you go to cinch the tag end and knot down, you won’t cause so much friction on your line, which can weaken the line and your knot.
The Rapala Loop Knot
The first thing to do is tie a half knot about 3 inches up from your tag end. Start making the knot by passing the tag end through the eyelet, then through the open half hitch you started with. Then wrap up the line 3-5 times. Finally pass the tag end back through the half hitch. Then slowly cinch your wraps and half hitch together to secure the knot. You can control how big your loop is by how small you make it when you pass your line back up through the half hitch after going through the eyelet. The key is to make it small because it will slip a little larger as you tighten the half hitch and the wraps together.
The Uni Knot
Start by passing the line through the eyelet and running the tag end parallel to the main line. Now loop it around and start wrapping the tag end around itself and the mainline back down towards the eyelet 7 times. Next take the tag end and run it back up through the loop created at the top of the knot. Wet the knot and slowly pull it tight by pulling the tag end and then the tag and mainline together and then the mainline by itself. The Uni knot is very versatile. It can be modified to join two lines together, double to make it twice as strong and even used with the shank of a hook to snell a knot onto a flipping hook.