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Knots

with Flip Pallot

Angler’s angler, spoken-word poet, television personality, flats-boat
designer, all-around nice guy, and teacher by nature, Flip Pallot has
acquired, through decades of fishing, an encyclopedic knowledge of what
works. The following conversation occurred in a steady stream, with nary

an interruption from me, simply my acknowledgements that Flip was
speaking angling gospel. I got to know Flip when he wrote for Fly Fishing
in Salt Waters magazine in the 1990s. Enjoy this, and apply it to your
fishing.
“Knots all depend on what’s needed for the fishing situation, and for me
that’s 90 percent fly fishing. Everyone has a terminal knot that they use to
tie on the lure or fly, and I use two—probably the same two that 80 or 90