posted on Jan 6
Product Description
Well know expert on fishing knots and rigs, Geoff Wilson has released his all-new and completely updated Encyclopedia of Fishing Knots and Rigs, Revised Edition. Geoff Wilson has a passion for knots and their correct tying. This passion inspired the original release of Geoff Wilson’s Complete Book of Fishing Knots and Rigs. Since then, Geoff has kept up with the advances in line and tackle technology, continually creating new knots and tweaking, changing and redesigning existing knots to make them perform better and be easier to tie. In this latest and fully revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Fishing Knots and Rigs more than twenty new knots plus dozens of systems have been included to make this book the most comprehensive fishing knot technical manual available today. Geoff takes anglers through the precise methods and processes needed to tie the sometimes difficult knots that modern fishing lines require.
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January 6th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
The book should have been tested by handing it to novices and watch them tie while attempting to follow the diagrams. I think the results would have been hilarious. I still find it useful, but I wish another 10% had been added for the sake of clarity. It would then be a 5-star book instead of 3-star. After a 23-year hiatus, I am returning to serious fishing as I step into retirement, so naturally I have to learn to use the new materials and also try to revive my old skills. One challenge is knot-tying and splicing with the new and slippery super lines (Gelspun) like SpiderWire and Power Pro. I bought two knot books, the Waterproof Book of Knots and this Geoff Wilson Encyclopedia from Australia. To its credit the Wilson book lives up to its name; it is definitely encyclopedic, dedicated to fishing, and printed on good paper with very clear drawings. It has a great section on rigging baits and is pretty well organized. Bluntly, some of the directions are simply a mystery. When it says, to splice a super line to monofilament “Tie a knot in the braided lines and pull the entire monofilament through,” I have no idea of what kind of knot I am supposed to tie, the tag ends are not labeled so I can identify them in the diagram, there is no explanation of how to interpret the diagram conventions, and frequently I feel more steps should be added to many of the instructions. Some knots do have more understandable diagrams, and some diagrams do identify which end is what, but it is inconsistent. I found the book frustrating, but believe when I learn more about knot tying in general, I will become more comfortable with it. By the way, the Waterproof Book of Knots is expensive for a small, limited book, but I had no trouble comprehending the drawings.
Rating: 3 / 5