Hook bend dropper knot

"notbob" wrote

Davey's knot. I like it. Easy for squinty-eyed geezers.



As a geezer that has tried Davey's knot ... it's not a knot that's not hard
to knot .... it looks a lot easier on paper than in a breeze, at dusk, with
light tippet, threading the tag back through the loop the second time is
hard without wasting a lot of tippet, mainly because that tag is hard to see
and grip with geezer eyes and a hand full of geezer thumbs

but give it a try and decide for yourself

I use an improved clinch and rw's excellent suggestion to start the knot on
a finger or your forceps not directly on the bend of the hook ... makes it
much easier to avoid trapping tail fibers of the dry fly in the knot
(especially with flies like a sparkle dun )

On 2008-03-26, Larry L wrote:

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... it's not a knot that's not hard
to knot ....
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