If you are involved in either sailing or rock climbing, it is likely you know the importance of the Figure Eight knot. It is used to stop ropes from running out of retaining devices. Like the overhand knot, it will jam under strain, but unlike the Overhand, which often causes the rope to have to be […]
Category: Outdoor Life
How to Tie a Clove Hitch
There are a couple knots that everyone needs to know. The Clove Hitch is one such knot. A clove hitch is used to tie a rope to a cylindrical object (like a fence post or tree). However, it is unreliable when tied on a square post. What makes it useful is that if you feed […]
How to Make Arrow Fletching With Duct Tape
Several years ago I tried out Dave Canterbury’s sling bow. It was fun and I saw that it had potential, Unfortunately, arrows are expensive. The short arrows I bought just did not develop enough energy to be useful. I decided to look into making my own arrows. Arrow-making has obviously been around a long […]
Organize Fishing Hooks With Safety Pins
This simple project of learning to organize fishing hooks with safety pins takes less than a minute, and can make your fishing trips much less stressful. Simply sort your fishhooks by type, and then run a safety pin through the hook’s eye. This not only keeps your fishhooks sorted, keeps them in place, and it […]
How to Make a Bottle Cap Fishing Lure
I saw this brilliant idea on YouTube and had to share it. A very smart guy figured out how to make a Bottle Cap Fishing Lure out of a discarded beer bottle caps. He even made a business of recycling buckets of beer caps harvested from local bars until he was sued by beer […]