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Fishing the Flower Knot

with Peter Corbin

Credit: Graham Kenan Hegamyer.

Recommended by fine artist, sportsman, and master angler Peter Corbin
of Shooter’s Hill in Millbrook, New York—also a longtime friend.
The Flower Knot is a dependable replacement for a Clinch Knot, Peter
Corbin says. However, Corbin also warns it can pull out if it’s not tied

properly: “I think what happens is, the last tag on the pull-through will just
be a curlicue, because it has to reverse to tighten up properly. The knot is
really quick—it’s an overhand knot, and then the tag goes back through
the other way to complete it. It’s simple. As I get older, and I have to
change my glasses or whatever when tying a knot, I can always do this

one. My hunting partner Jim Kline showed it to me, and initially I did have