The Davy knot was invented years ago by a fly fisherman called Davy Wotton and is a very quick, simple, easy-to-tie knot to join your tippet material to your fly, hook or lure.

The arbor knot is one of the best fishing knots you can use to attach your fishing line onto a fishing reel. It’s a simple and quick fishing knot to tie and you can attach braided fishing line, monofilament, or fluorocarbon securely to any type of fishing reel including spinning reels and fly reels.

The improved clinch knot was one of the first fishing knots I ever learned and it’s widely used in the United Kingdom and the United States for attaching a fly, lure, hook, or swivel to the end of a fishing line.

The Turle knot was popularized by Major William Greer Turle an English angler from the 19th century. Now the turtle knot wasn’t invented by Major William Greer Turle but it is named after him. The English General’s use of it is what got fly anglers using it regularly and thus it bears his name.

The surgeon’s knot is one of the quickest and easiest fishing knots to tie when joining two lines of a similar diameter. It’s an evolution of a reef knot used in sailing which is now widely used in fly fishing to create a leader or attach a tippet.

The snell knot was a very popular knot back when a lot of hooks didn’t have an eye. In fact, it was and is one of the only fishing knots you can use to join your leader line to hooks without an eye.

The non-slip loop knot was developed by the legend of fly fishing Left Kreh and thus is also referred to as the Kreh non-slip loop knot.

The perfection loop knot is also referred to as the angler’s loop knot and is one of the best fishing knots to tie when you want a loop that is perfectly in line with the standing end of your leader or tippet to attach to a lure, fly, or to your fly line.

The surgeon’s loop knot is one of the quickest and easiest fly fishing knots to tie when you need a loop to connect your leader to your fly line or to a fly.

The slim beauty knot is one of the best fishing knots for tying two pieces of line together that are either different diameters and/or different materials, such as mono leader to fluoro tippet, or even braided line to mono.

The nail knot is an incredibly simple but versatile knot as it can be used in so many different ways when fly fishing so it’s a knot you need to know and have in your fly fishing arsenal.

If you can learn the uni knot, then you can almost get by without learning any other fishing knot out there, it has a great many uses and it’s quick and easy to tie. You can use it to join two lines by doing a double uni knot, tie on a hook with to your leader with a single, or make a loop connection.

The Albright Knot was invented by the famous Florida keys guide Jimmy Albright in the 1950s. He developed the knot to join two different materials of line smoothly so that line could run through the roid guides with ease while fighting a tarpon.

Fly fishing with a Tenkara rod started out in Japan and it’s not becoming more and more popular across the world, particularly in the USA. These rods are a lot of fun to fish with, easy for beginners to learn with, and super portable so you can take them anywhere, they’ll even fit in your pocket.

The Orvis knot is named after the Orvis company. It was called Orvis knot after Orvis held a contest years ago that was all about tieing the strongest new tippet to fly knot. This knot was the winner of the contest and Orvis bought the right to name it from the fisherman who tied it.

A needle knot is pretty much an improved version of a nail not that you would use to connect your leader and tippet to your fly line. This is assuming there is no welded loop at the end of your fly line or you haven’t tied a perfection loop at the end of your fly line.

The Palomar knot is one of the fishing knots around to tie a hook, swivel, lure, or fly to either monofilament lines or braided lines, in fact, it’s stronger when done with braided lines.

A blood knot, also known as a barrel knot sometimes, is one of the most used knots in the fly fishing world. It dates back hundreds of years and was used on sailing boats at the end of whips or cat o nine tails for the purpose of drawing blood when punishing an unruly mate on board, hence the name blood knot, and is used in sailing today as a stopper knot.

A loop-to-loop knot is one of the best fly fishing knots to connect your backing or leader to the fly line. It’s not really a knot per se, and the loop to loop knot is better thought of as a loop to loop connection of two different lines that looks like a square knot when complete.