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Jonathan Newton ties a quick loop knot in this short fishing tip video. Check out our Fishing Knot Guide for more tips on other great knots for bass fishing and all freshwater fishing.
One question I get asked frequently is how to tie a loop knot. I tie it on like a wake bait like we’re fishing here in the fall. It’s real simple though; you go through one time like this. Get you about 12 or 14 inches of tag line or more and hold the tag in right here. Grip it in the center, do 2 twists and back through and then pull. What I like to do is I position this, these two separate right here, I just position them on top of the eye like this and just work them down real slow, pull individually on each one until you get the length loop that you want and then you have a loop knot. It’s simple. Then you cut the tag line and you’re ready to go.
Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.