How To Tie Blood Knot

If you ask question which knot type that most favorite for fly fishing, you may have blood knot as the answer. This type of knots commonly used to join similar size of two lines. This is one of the best knots type to join leader or tippet. The strength of blood knot depends on how many turns we made on each side of the center. It's the best to make at least five turn or up to seven turn to get strength blood knot.

Tying Blood Knot

The blood knot is one kind of knots type that simple, easy to learn and practice as tying surgeon knots. But, if surgeon knot used to join lines that moderately have different size, blood knot very effective and useful to join two similar sized lines. We can use the several method to tie blood knot, and one of those method will explained bellow. The important think to keep in our mind is whichever method we use, it's usually will get symmetrical in result.

Follow Easy and Simple Instruction Bellow To Tie Blood Knot

[caption id="attachment_258" align="aligncenter" width="450"] place the lines as in the picture above[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_259" align="aligncenter" width="450"] overlap the two lines to be joined[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_260" align="aligncenter" width="450"] wrap on end around the other line[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_261" align="aligncenter" width="450"] 2nd wrap on end around the other line[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_262" align="aligncenter" width="450"] 3rd wrap on end around the other line[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_263" align="aligncenter" width="450"] still wrap on end around the other line about six times[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_264" align="aligncenter" width="450"] start tuck the end back[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_265" align="aligncenter" width="450"] tuck the end back between the lines[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_266" align="aligncenter" width="450"] repeat the process with the other line[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_267" align="aligncenter" width="450"] wrapping the second line (red) like the first (blue)[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_268" align="aligncenter" width="450"] continue wrap on end around the other line again[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_269" align="aligncenter" width="450"] do this step till reach six times wrap[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_270" align="aligncenter" width="450"] don't forget to tuck the end back between the line again[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_271" align="aligncenter" width="450"] its may result in opposite direction[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_272" align="aligncenter" width="450"] tighten and trim[/caption]

While we finished the last step - tighten and trim - if we use nylon to form this knot, its appearance will different. We may not get the result as it looks in the picture above.

The tutorial for tying blood knot above adapted form animatedknots, which all images belongs to them.