in this video you're gonna see exactly how to tie the loop not that I believe every angler who uses artificial lures needs to know and at the end I'll explain to you exactly why this knot has proven to be better than the other loop knots so first of all let's go ahead and just tie it this is called the non-slip loop knot the first step is really just to not even focus on the lure but just put a simple overhand loop in the line and over in loop is just you know it's basically just creating the most basic of all loops on the line and to make it as easy as possible I recommend having about maybe four inches or so of tagging going off here to the left so now at this point we can go ahead and grab our lure and thread the the line through the eye and I just like to let blue or just rest right up there against the knot as far as the size you know this is how you determine the size of your loop I like to have it about you know at this point a little bit a little bit smaller than the size of like an M&M so so now we need to thread the line through this this loop and the proper way to do it is if we look closely you can see that the face you know the face on the left side is aimed downward and then in the right side the the face is pointing upwards so we want to go through the downward side so on the bottom when we're going up we want to go through this left side which is which has the face of that of that loop facing down so we go straight through it can pull it back up towards the the eye the hook size it properly and now we're going to just just hold it into place with our with our left hand so now we have our tag in heading out to the right and our main line heading out to the right as well so at this point we we just get the tag in and wrap it around the main line three to four times I do three times for line two over 40 pounds and I'll do four wraps for four lines under under 40 pounds so now we have those wraps and as you can see that are all going in the same direction they're not overlapping one another again very not to overlap and so now we have this tag in and we need to go back through this loop and we're going to go from the the right to the left this time we're going we want to go through the upward facing side on the one you're going back down so you go right through that loop just like slow and then start to pull the the lines all tight together just do finger tight right now now we're going to go ahead and and wet the line so now that the line is wet we're going to go ahead and just cinch it down a little bit more pulling on all strands and now we're gonna let go of the tag end and just hold on tight with the with the main line and just pull as as far as you can to cinch it all down you can see that it's now it's now cinch down that knot is complete final step is simply to cut off the tag so what I really like about this knot other than the fact that it's very strong is that the tag in is facing back towards the lure you can see that tag end pointing it literally straight backwards and the benefit of that is that if you're fishing in an area with like sea grass or other type of floating degree on the water you know the line is eventually gonna get it grab it and it's going to go down the line and if you're tagged in it is pointed if it's pointed straight up or worse if it's going it's going forward like back towards the other main line that that debris is gonna snag on that the tag end of the knot and this one is a streamline not tag is totally back toward the lure it's not gonna snag onto weeds and you're gonna be able to to have more time fishing in less time getting getting stuff off of your lure so if you have not yet tried this knot out I highly recommend it give it a shot right now and I actually have a free pdf download that you can you can print out and just have with you whenever you need it in case you you forget one of the steps you can see clear directions on a printable document I'll put a link down below for that and if you want to see exactly how this knot compares to other similar knots like this we do have a ranking of knots based on strength for each line connection and each line type so how do I recommend checking out it's on our website you'll see a link for 4 knots that's it for now leave a question down below you have any otherwise I hope can get down the water soon and catch the big ones live self strong in wetlands and day