Do you tie your lures and flies on with a loop knot? If you answered no, don’t fret. I can’t tell you how many anglers I’ve met that don’t incorporate a loop knot into their repertoire of ties. I ...

Between bear bags, tent guy outs, and tarp lines, setting up camp can involve a lot of tedious knot tying. When you're tired after a long day of hiking, you don't want to have to deal with knots that ...

Learn three different ways to tie a bowline, the King of Knots. We will show you how to tie a bowline knot diagram. The bowline (pronounced bo-lin) is the single most important knot for all outdoors ...

SPRINGVILLE, Alabama -- Here is a step-by-step photo gallery on how to tie a Non-Slip Loop knot. Michael Belcher with Mark's Outdoors show us how to tie this knot. This knot is popular and useful for ...

Take the ends of the rope and make an "X" with the left end of the rope placed over the right. Cross the "new" right end around the rope to make an overhand knot. Take the right and left ends and put ...

A version of this story ran in The Virginian-Pilot on Sept. 14, 2005. Hurricane or no, we’re in for a blow. Time to start thinking about how to secure the woodpile or lash the garbage cans to a tree.

The perfection loop fishing knot is a foundation knot for fly fisherman. It is used to tie the butt section of fly leaders to make loop to loop connections with fly line. It is one of the best knots ...

Nicola Pugno, at the University of Trento in Italy, has succeeded in making by far the toughest material in the world -- by taking a conventional piece of fiber... and tying it in a slip knot. This ...

Knots are not just for shoelaces and sailing lines. In the last decade, physicists have shown that swirling liquids can ...