Fishing knots for flies, hooks, leader, line, loop

To master the knot tying skill is an essential part of the art of fishing. The knot, being on the hook, the swivel or the leader is the weakest link between you and the fish and if one of these fails........ 41 knots tying are detailed, from the most popular to some lesser known which are worth trying.
In the following pages, tying is illustrated step by step, for the clearness of the photographs, I use cord and not monofilament .
The photograph opposite illustrates the clinch, to explain the steps, the following terms are defined: - Standing Line: BF, the portion of the leader connecting the hook to the reel - Tag End : BL the end of the line used to build the knot and is trimmed - - - - The loops A, B...
Some rules which should be followed to guarantee the quality of a knot: - To learn the knot, start tying with a piece of small diameter rope, then with monofilament - Make sure that wraps do not overlap, because a nylon strand can cut through one another. - Lubricate (with saliva or water) before tightening the knot. - Tighten slowly by increasing the tension regularly, don’t draw swiftly. - After tightening , if the knot presents a defect, cut it up and start again - Take a good length of nylon to build the knot, a too short tag end make it difficult to go through a loop! - Trim the tag end with a nail cutter, do not cut too short, leave at least 1 to 2mm - Lastly, after a good fight with a trout, the knot of the hook and tippet are certainly weakened or the line abraded by the teeth. Cut, change the tippet and redo the knots.
Click on a knot in the above table to get the step by step tying.
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To tie the hooks/flies
The Must		Clinch	Davy	Triléne	Palomar	Duncan	Pitzen
Turle	Harvey	double Clinch	Clinch forcep
To try		Trilene-duncan	Offshore	Homer	Christophe 2	Double Turle	Jansik
Worl Fair	Crawford	Eugene	Eight	For the small flies: Put a threader
Make your leaders
Blood	Surgeon	Wolf	Droppers	Double Grinner	Double Pitzen	Christophe 1
Flyline leader or backing
Needle or Nail		Albright	Castwell	Constriction knot		Flyline loop
Make loops
Surgeon	Rapala	Perfection (micro-loop)	Loop in loop	Dropper loop	King loop	Tippet ring

Backing or lines to reel.
Reel	Arbor N°1	Arbor N°2