Improved clinch knot
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Special Knots, and Advanced Knots, for Wolf, Bear, Webelos, Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class.
| Improved clinch knot | |
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| Names | Improved clinch knot, |
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| Typical use | |
| Caveat | |
| Releasing | |
| Category | knots |
| Group | Fishing knots |
| Related | |
- Required for
- Fly Fishing merit badge requirement #3e
- Fishing (Ranger Award elective) #8 Option A: b4
- Instructions
- Lesson Videos
- Notes
The Improved Clinch Knot like the original Clinch Knot is used to tie fishing line to a hook, lure, or swivel. The Improved Cinch Knot has an extra tuck under the final turn. Do not use with heavy line.
- See also
| Knots by Use | |
| Basic knots | Overhand knot · Square knot · Granny knot · Two half-hitches · Taut-line hitch · Bowline · Sheet bend · Slip knot · Clove hitch · Timber hitch |
| Advanced knots | Constrictor knot · Monkey's fist · Ocean plait · Trucker's hitch · Turk's head |
| Special knots | Braiding · Carrick bend · Chain sinnet · Cow hitch · Double sheet bend · Sheep shank |
| Fishing knots | Arbor backing knot · Barrel knot · Blood knot · Blood loop · Clinch knot · Fisherman's knot · Improved clinch knot · Nail knot · Needle knot · Palomar knot · Surgeon's loop · Turle knot |
| Sailing knots | Bowline on a Bight · Cleat Hitch · Double Bowline · Figure Eight · Marline Hitch · Midshipman's Hitch · Rolling Hitch · Stevedores Knot |
| Climbing knots | Alpine Butterfly knot · Double fisherman's knot (Grapevine) · Figure eight follow-through · Figure eight on a bight · Figure eight on bend · Figure eight knot · Prusik knot · Safety knot · Water knot |
| Forty knots | |
