Page 50 - Joseph B. Healy "The Pocket Guide to Fishing Knots"

Fishing the Albright Knot

(Also called the Albright Special)
with Phil Monahan

Credit: Sandy Hays

Phil is the former editor of American Angler magazine and a former
fishing guide in Alaska and Montana. Now the editor of the Orvis Fly
Fishing blog, he enjoys fishing the small streams near his home in
southern Vermont and traveling across the country reporting on fly-fishing
developments. He and I edited fly-fishing magazines during the 1990s,
when “how-to” was important to the readership, long before you could

find instruction on much of the sport through YouTube.
“The Albright Knot is one of my favorite knots—strangely, because it is
so complicated to tie. The trend in knots is to create the strongest knots