How to Tie a Hook and Lure onto Fishing Line

Learn to tie on your hook, lure or other tackle onto your line with a knot you can tie with your eyes closed once you learn it. The Uni-knot is tied using a large loop of line and is one of the strongest knots you can tie.

Instructions

1. Thread the line through the top of your hook eye, lure eye or snap swivel. Pull about 12 inches of line back toward the rod, pinching the line lightly with your left thumb and forefinger.
    
   
   
   
   Pinch the left side of the loop
    
2. Wrap the end of the line into a clockwise loop around the last three fingers of your left hand and pinch the line loop tightly with your left thumb and forefinger. Hold the right side of the loop open with your right middle finger.
   
   
   
                                            Wrap top line five times                                                        
   
3. Guide the loose end of line under the top of the loop with your left middle finger, then use your right thumb and forefinger to pull the line through and over the top of the two strands of line. Continue to loop the loose end of the line over the top two lines for five or six wraps.
   
   
4. Release the loop from your left thumb and forefinger and pull the line to the right with your right hand to tighten the knot on the upper line.
   
   
5. Drop the free end of line and pull the main line toward the right to tighten the knot down to the eye. Clip the excess line close to the knot, which should have a neat conical shape.
   

Tips & Warnings

• You can tie a workable knot with four loops if you're in a hurry, but five to six wraps are recommended for full knot strength.
• The Uni-knot was invented by Vic Dunaway, a renowned fishing expert from Florida, working under a grant from the DuPont Corporation which is a leading manufacturer of monofilament line.