Discover the strongest and most visually striking loop knot you probably haven’t tried: ABOK 1032, featuring the Chinese Crown and Chinese Cross Knot. This knot combines exceptional strength with ...

From Heddon and Pflueger classics to the legendary Haskell Minnow, learn how to identify, value, and collect old fishing lures. Similar to oil painting, the age of the work, the artist’s name and ...

Top waters are one of my favorite lures, especially when a big fish engulfs it and I get to see the surface action. But they only work as well as you work them, and there is a bit of a learning curve ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar double helix. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes under certain conditions. One such structure known as a G-quadruplex (G4) looks like a ...

We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them, Johns Hopkins ...

Saltwater fish are tough. They have to be. Everything out there is trying to eat something else. In that regard, a lot of them are pretty serious about their dental work. Almost any saltwater fish has ...

“I’ll be danged if the next big fish I lose is because I tied a crappy knot,” writes outdoor columnist Ben Smith. We’d been on the lake for about an hour, maybe a little more. The bite was mostly slow ...

Do you tie your lures and flies on with a loop knot? If you answered no, don’t fret. I can’t tell you how many anglers I’ve met that don’t incorporate a loop knot into their repertoire of ties. I ...

Middle of winter in the Colorado high country can be a daunting place. Lately, frigid cold has slid down the mountains and settled on the valley. River sections froze. Fly fishing seems like a distant ...

We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them, research finds. We ...