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Loop knots give you a good alternative for topwater baits that don’t have split rings. You can allow the bait to move side to side more with a loop knot and lets baits walk that don’t ordinarily walk well. The Rapala Knot is a fairly popular loop knot for bigger lures and you can manage how small your loop is easily with this loop knot.
How to Tie the Rapala Knot:
1. Tie a half knot about 3 inches up from your tag end.
2. Pass the tag end through the eyelet, then through the open half hitch.
3. Wrap up the line 3-5 times.
4. Pass the tag end back through the half hitch.
5. Slowly cinch your wraps and half hitch together to secure the knot.
Notes:
You can control how big your loop is by how small you make it when you pass your line back up through the half hitch after going through the eyelet. The key is to make it small because it will slip a little larger as you tighten the half hitch and the wraps together.
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. Now he sets 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.
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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.
