5 Essential Trout Fishing Knots with Charlie Craven - Ask Charlie #5

This is one of the better videos on knots. Thank you!

"He was a fly fishermen, Watson." "How do you know that Holmes?" "Elementary, my dear Watson, his front teeth are worn down!"

Thanks Charlie! Your nail knot Tie-fast demo was better than any I've seen online! Appreciate your work! Thank you! ed

Double Davy knot, master it and never look back!!!

Great job CC. You covered all my favorites that I’ve used for forty eight years as well. It’s always nice to get a refresher vid on knots, especially a good video that you can actually see the knot being tied… like you did here over the shoulder. Excellent camera work!

I'm adopting your blood knot method. Always struggle with that one. Thanks CC for yet another informative video.

Wow, thankful for this video! Charlie is my fly tying dealer!

Good video Charlie, I’m definitely going to try you way of the blood knot. Thanks

The no slip mono loop is also good for larger flies that tend to twist the tippet when casting. Don’t forget to police your tippet after trimming it, just like policing your brass after shooting.

You must of read my mind when, "Davey knot is my favorite knot!"

Great video thanks for sharing. Kinda glad it wasn't a material drop right now, because I would be buying something.

Nice summary Charlie. Thanks

Those are the knots I use; I was never super quick with knot-tying. Since I never fish with anybody, I don't have to rush to do anything. When I do rush, Generally, one or two things are going to happen. I spook the fish I want to catch or take what I like to call a shitter. Spending a day wet is not my Idea of a pleasant day unless it's around 90 deg. When it's cool or cold, like one 50 deg October day, I get wet because I am in an excited rush because I just hooked the biggest brown I have ever caught to that date in a little stream I like to fish here in CT, the long walk to the car was not to bad, driving home not terrible I was soaked. The hot shower was great, but the pneumonia I developed damn near killed me. I was 32 at the time, and to this day, I have never been the same since the doctors, every time they do a chest x-ray, ask about the lung scars. That 22-inch hook-jawed Brown Trout was, and it's one of my most memorable. I tied that Olive Zonker to imitate the Atlantic Salmon Smolts the state stocked to restore Atlantic Salmon to CT waters. Just made for a lot of happy brown trout. The State of CT stopped that program after 50 years in '05. A huge failure.

Thanks Charlie

With age and fading eyesight I use forcep adaptable knots clinch,pitzen,surgeons all work maybe a shortcuts video next

Nice video. To tie the leader to fly line, I really like those needles to putt air in footballs. And they are small enough to cary around.

You’re that guy on the frying pan, to the world.

Thank you twice as i watched twice

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Double Davy (Pinch method) hands down superior in every way to the clinch. Not even debatable. Infinity Tippet knot is the easiest and most practical on water splicing knot, again, superior to the surgeon'e or blood knots. Time to take your knot game into the 21st century.