Ezknot, and Boomerang fishing Pro

Loops are used for many applications in fishing, most commonly for attaching lures and hooks, this is done with the sliding loop knot. The fixed loop knot is sometimes used for lures, but mostly used for the making of pretied leaders. To make a fixed loop you first need to tie a stop knot about 10 inches from the end of the line. This is the standard knot tied on the EZ Knot,, it can be from two to four wraps around the tool.

The position of the stop knot on the tool while tying the loop knot will determine the size of the loop, as the slip loop knot will slide up to this stop

The size of the fixed loop will be ½ the distance from the end of the tool. Now proceed to tie the standard loop knot, wrapping the loops around the tool and the main line as shown below

Slide the Knot off of the tool and pull up tight,, then slide the loop down to the stop knot, cut the tag, and your set

Of course a sliding loop can be tied the same, just without the stop knot, this sliding loop is also excellent for attaching your line to your reel spool, this will give you the strongest possible knot in case a fish has pulled all of your line from your reel , you might be able to gain some line on him. Most knots now used for this, fail, much below the breaking strength of the line, if you ever get spooled by a fish , you will loose it, with most other knots used for attaching the line to the spool.

When attaching line to a reel spool you can tie the knot with a very large loop first, then trim the tag, and slide the loop over the spool, pull the loop up tight, and you are set. On bait casting reels, run the line around the spool, and through the level wind , before tying the knot, then trim the tag, and pull the loop up tight. There is no loop tied, that is too large, as they will all pull up, so give yourself plenty of line to work with, and the job will be EZer.