Hi! I am Bob McNally for Salt Water Sportsman magazine. Tying a loop knot onto a plug or a streamer fly, spinnerbait, even a spoon, is frequently much better than tying a tight knot to the lure eye, as you would to improve clinch knot or clench knot.
There are a lot of different kinds of loop knots out there, and they all work pretty well. My favorite is the Homer Rhode Loop, because you can tie with either light pound test or 100 and 150 pound test. It's easy to tie. It's almost 100% knot strength, and here's how you go about tying it.
First, overhand knot is made, test this line, and through the hook or lure eye, and the line is run back through the overhand knot that you have just tied. Position that overhand knot close to the hook eye; lock it down a little bit.
Then with the tag end of the line, make another overhand knot onto the standing part of the line, just like the first. The way you position this overhand knot determines the size of the loop.
Further away from the lure you make it, the bigger the loop knot will be. If I want a small knot, I will position it close; large knot, I position it farther away, because the two knots will jam at an equidistance, forming the size of the loop.
Turn the tag end close. It will not pull out, it's virtually 100% knot. It can be made with 100 pound test or 10 pound test, and allow that lure, great swimming action, whether it's a jig, streamer fly, crankbait, or spoon.
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