Page 47 - Joseph B. Healy "The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots"

fishing knots. It’s no different now. We go to kids’ fishing derbies to teach,

we work them all around the country.”
Eventually, Jimmy did develop a knot known as the Jimmy Houston
Knot. “I took a Clinch Knot and doubled that, and was playing around with
that, a double Improved Clinch—doubling the line and running through
the eye of the lure and then wrapping four times around the double line.
This was more or less killing time at these promotions, so I called this
one the Jimmy Houston Knot, and this was a pure 100 percent knot, in

monofilament or braid. You can break a lure off and go and retrieve that
lure and you’ll see the line broke but not the knot. The only time you can
make that knot fail is if you cinch it down wrong and the line cuts itself.
What it really is, is a Double Improved Clinch. That goes back now about
forty years. We got it down to where four wraps would hold it. If I’m

fishing a plastic worm, I leave the tags long because they will tuck inside
the worm and hold the worm straight. People who watch us on TV know
that as the Jimmy Houston Knot.
“Knots are an integral part of fishing. We taught a lot of people how to
tie knots, including how to tie the Jimmy Houston Knot—and the cool
thing, that knot is a 100 percent knot in mono, fluorocarbon, or braid,”
Jimmy concludes.