{"id":492,"date":"2015-04-06T21:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T11:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/?p=492"},"modified":"2019-03-11T23:21:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T13:21:47","slug":"penny-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/penny-knot\/","title":{"rendered":"IN FOR A PENNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In For A Penny &#8211; <strong>By permission: Tim Rolston Inkwazi Flyfishing <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/>\nI<\/strong> like to imagine that I am open to new ideas, suggestions, hypotheses and such, although I must admit at the same time that I am not overly keen to listen to foolish notions without logical backup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>S<\/strong>o it happens that some months back I hosted Peter Hayes, from Tasmania. Peter was in South Africa conducting clinics, mostly focused on fly casting. But then Peter is a man of unrivalled enthusiasm when it comes to fly fishing and he will pretty much discuss anything remotely related to the sport. Getting Peter to offer up some gem related to anything piscatorial is about as tough as getting as alcoholic to have \u201cone for the road\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong>e is as said, enthusiastic but equally thoughtful and he isn\u2019t overly likely to put forward an idea that he hasn\u2019t, in his own head, considered carefully. Peter has more tricks ups his sleeve than a bone fide member of the magic circle and when he is prepared to take a bet that \u201chis knot\u201d is better than \u201cyour knot\u201d you are best off to keep your money in your pocket and listen carefully.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>T<\/strong>hat then was how I was introduced to something Peter refers to as \u201cThe Penny Knot\u201d after the person that showed it to him. I suspect that the knot might well appear in other places under various pseudonyms but that doesn\u2019t make it any less practical. Accordingly to Peter the knot for tying a fly (or hook if there are some lowly bait anglers reading this) to the nylon, maintains 100% of the strength of the monofilament. That is some boast, I would have told you an impossible one to be honest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So we had \u201cknot fights\u201d the battle of one connection over the other, Peter didn\u2019t lose, and so I had to revise my opinion. I have used a \u201cDuncan Loop Knot\u201d for years to affix my fly to the tippet, I use a lot of very fine nylon and have become quite fussy about knots in general. It took some persuasion to change and not an inconsiderable amount of retraining. I have probably tied well over a million \u201cDuncan Loop Knots\u201d in my life so was more than proficient at it. Now I had to practice, create new muscle memory so that I might take full advantage of a different attachment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A<\/strong>ll I can tell you is that it was worth it, this simple and extremely small knot works well even in fine nylon and since converting I don\u2019t think that I have broken off a fly in a fish, not once. Actually I haven\u2019t broken off many in the trees either, the herbage seems to give way before the knot does much of the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>H<\/strong>ere is the knot as shown to me by Peter, you best learn it and use it, after some four decades of fishing and tying knots I haven\u2019t ever come across one as reliable as this, actually not even close.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>N<\/strong>ot only is it an exceptionally good, simple and effective knot but equally it has proven that you can indeed teach an old dog new tricks \uf04a<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/penny-knot-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-495 size-full\" title=\"The Penny Knot\" src=\"http:\/\/elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/penny-knot-2.jpg\" alt=\"In for a Penny Knot\" width=\"550\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/penny-knot-2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.elaborate.net.au\/flyfishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/penny-knot-2-172x300.jpg 172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By permission: Tim Rolston Inkwazi Flyfishing: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkwaziflyfishing.co.za\">www.inkwaziflyfishing.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/paracaddis.wordpress.com\">http:\/\/paracaddis.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:rolston@iafrica.com\">rolston@iafrica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tel: +27 (0)83 6260467<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cape Piscatorial Society:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Web: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piscator.co.za\">www.piscator.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:cpsoc@netactive.co.za\">cpsoc@netactive.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tel: +27 (0)21 4247725<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In For A Penny &#8211; By permission: Tim Rolston Inkwazi Flyfishing I like to imagine that I am open to new ideas, suggestions, hypotheses and such, although I must admit at the same time that I am not overly keen to listen to foolish notions without logical backup. 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