Fishing Knots & Rigs.

Geoff Wilsons Fishing Knots & Rigs videos and the new updated book are world best sellers. And they deserve to be! Geoff is a collector of info to help make him a better fisherman and when he studies something he does it in great detail.

Geoff has provided a comprehensive and very clear instruction guide on how to tie a variety of useful saltwater and freshwater fishing knots and rigs. In the videos the knots are seen tied from over Geoff’s shoulder giving a close-up view from the knot- tier’s point of view.

In the book Geoff has used very clear line drawings of the various knot tying processes.

Volume 1. Line to Terminal Tackle Mono & Super Braid.

1. Blood knot with two wraps ( mono )
2. Locked half Blood Knot ( mono )
3. Grinner ( mono )
4. Centauri ( mono )
5. Common Snell ( mono )
6. Simple Snell ( mono )
7. Nail Knot ( mono )
8. Thumb Knot ( mono )
9. Fixed Loop Knot ( mono )
10. Intro to polytethelene Braid Superlines

11. Leader Knot ( Superlines )
12. Reattaching mono leaders ( Superlines )
13. Braid Snell ( Superlines )
14. Silly Snell ( Superlines )
15. Ring Knot ( Superlines )
16. Haywire Twist & Barrel Roll ( Single strand wire )
17. Flemish Twist ( Multistrand wire )
18. Longliner’s Knot ( mono )
19. Centauri Knot ( Attaching line to a spool )

Volume 2. Line to Line & Rigs.

1. Double six-fold Blood knot ( mono )
2. Blood Knot with reverse twist ( mono )
3. Double Grinner ( mono )
4. Attaching a fly line to a leader ( mono )
5. Running Sinker Rig ( mono )
6. Paternoster Rig ( mono )
7. Blood Bight Loop ( mono )
8. Tagless Dropper ( mono )
9. Twisted Tagless Dropper ( mono )
10. Loop to Loop Connections ( mono )
11. Paternoster Rig using loops ( mono )

12. Rigging a Running Float
13. Improve Albright Knot & Nail Knot ( mono )
14. Spider Hitch ( mono )
15. Plait ( mono )
16. Bimini Twist ( mono )
17. Attaching Mono to a thick leader ( mono )
18. Dacron Leader Splice ( Dacron )
19. Dacron Leader Splice ( Plyobond )
20. Darcon Loop Splice ( Wire needle )
21. Dacron Connecting Mono Leaders

Volume 2 $19.95

Geoff Wilson’s Complete Book of Fishing Knots & rigs. Millenium Edition.

Geoff Wilson has a passion for knots and their correct tying.

It is this passion that has inspired the release of Geoff’s Complete Book of Knots & Rigs - Millenium Edition. Throughout this version Geoff takes anglers through the precise methods and processes needed to tie the sometimes difficult knots that modern fishing lines require.

There are chapters dealing with knots for terminal tackle, loops, super lines, leaders, dacron, doubles, float fishing, fly fishing and commercial knots. A detailed section on the best rigs for both saltwater and freshwater fishing, as well as game fishing and sportfishing, is an added bonus!

Over a hundred new knots have been included to make this book the most comprehensive fishing knot encyclopedia available today.

Geoff Wilson’s Complete Book of Knots & Rigs is essential for anglers of all persuations and will help you catch more fish.

Knots: Line to Terminal Tackle.
1. Locked Half Blood Knot
2. Clich or Blood Knot
3. Reverse Twist Blood Knot
4. Palomor Knot
5. Gary Martin’s World Fair Knot
6. Centauri Knot
7. Pitzen Knot
8. Marshall’s Snare
9. Attaching line to your reel
10. Penny Knot
11. Uni Knot
12. Thumb Knot
13. Nail Knot with Loop

Snells: Line to Terminal Tackle
1. Simple Snell
2. Common Snell
3. Multiple Hook Rigs: Sliding Snell
Knots: Tying Loops
1. Homer Rhode Loop
2. Perfection Loop
3. Dropper Loop
4. Twisted Dropper Loop
5. End Loop
7. Double Overhang Loop
8. Figure of Eight Knot or Blood Knot

Knots: Superlines
1. Silly Snell
2. Triple Palomar Knot
3. Braid Snell
4. Collar & Capstan
5. Braid Ring Knot
6. Bimini Cat’s Paw Splice
7. Twisted Leader Knot for for Gelspun Lines
8. Rigging for Sport, Gane and Deep Sea Fishing

Knots: Line to Line
1. Double Uni Knot
2. Double Centauri Knot for joining lines
3. Double Four-Fold Blood Knot
4. Reverse Twist Blood Knot for joining lines
5. Opposed Nail Knot
6. Plaited Splice

Rigs: Float Fishing
1. Fixed Stem Knots
2. Bob Float
3. Fixed Waggler Float
4. Running Floats
5. Alternative Running Float
6. Tandem Floats
7. Attaching Balloons
8. Towline Knot

Rigs: Saltwater
1. Fishing with Sinkers: Fixed Sinkers
2. Fishing with Sinkers: Running Sinkers
3. Fishing with Sinkers: Fixed Sinker Rigs
4. Fishing with Sinkers: Running Sin\ker Rigs
5. Fishing with Sinkers: Tangle-free Surf Casting Rig
6. Baiting Up: Soft Baits
7. Baiting Up: Crustaceans
8. Baiting Up: Molluscs
9. Baiting Up: Common Saltwater Baits
10. Baiting Up and Fishing With Tuna Circles
11. Live Baiting With Tuna Circles
12. Rigging With Wire: Flemish Eye
13. Multiple Hook Rigs: Double Rigging on Wire
14. Multiple Hook Rigs: Ganged Hooks
15. Single Strand Wire: Haywire Twist and Barrel Roll
Connection
16. Rigging with Wire: Heat Weld Wire

Knots: Line to Leader
1. Albright Knot
2. Improved Blood Knot
3. Slim Beauty
4. Shock Tippert and Leader Knot

Dacron: Joins & Splices
1. Wind on Dacron Leader Splice
2. Wind On Leaders for Game Fishing
3. Wind On Wire Leaders
4. Dacron Joining Splice

Doubles
1. Plaiting a Double
2. Bimini Twist
3. Hand Tensioned Bimini Double
4. Spider Hitch
5. Tony Jone’s Leader Knot
6. Cat’s Paw to Ring or Swivel
7. Loop and Cross Loop Connections

Knots: Fly Fishing
1. Duncan’s Loop
2. Lefty’s Loop
3. Improved Turle Knot
4. Blood Knot
5. Half Blood Knot
6. Locked Half Blood Knot
7. Attaching Fly Line to a Hollow Braided Backing
8. Monofilament Loop to Fly Line
9. Nail Knot using tube
10. Indicator Knoe
11. Surgeon’s Knot for Attaching Dropper
13. How to split Leaders
14. Making Saltwater Fly Fishing Leaders
15. Westy’s Dropper
16. Creating End Loops in Saltwater Fly Leaders

Knots: Commercial
1. Tooth and Nail Knot
2. Longliner’s Knot

Rigs: Freshwater
1. Rigging with an Egg-shaped Bubble Float
2. General Rigs
3. Fred Jobson’s Trolled Mudeye Rig
( Dragonfly Ntmph )
4. Trolled Scrubworm or Night Crawler
5. Coarse Angling: Float Rigs
6. Coarse Angling: Swimfeeder Rigs
7. Bumper Knot or Salmon Egg Loop
8. Double Hook Bumper Knot
9. Rigging Spinnerbaits
10. How to Hook Freshwater Baits
11. Rigging with Lead-vored Line for Trolling
12. Soft Plastic Rigs
13. Rigging Rubber Worms on Worm Hooks
14. Downrigging

Rigs: Game & Sport
1. Rigging a Bait Strip
2. Live bait on Ganged Hooks for Spainish Mackerel
3. Rigging with Electrical Cable Ties
4. Baiting Two Hook Rig with Fillets of Tuna for Shark
5. Making a Double Loop Bridle for Live Bait Trolling
6. Rigging a Garfish as a Skip Bait
7. Rigging a Garfish ( Balao ) as a Swimming Bait
8. Preparing a Baitfish for Trolling
9. Rigging a Skip Bait
10. Rigging a swim Bait
11. How to Rig a Squid for Trolling or Drifting

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