Well turtle, if you use a tight knot to the eye of your hook you are cheating yourself out of some fish, I did that till one day a very old and experience crappie fisherman showed me somthing I did not know, iF you tie tight to the eye of the hook, your jig does not hang in the water on a level horizontal plane, if you use a loose loop knot your jig has way more life like apearance because the jig hangs in the water on a horizontal plane, and because you are not tied tight to the eye of the hook, your bait has a very free range of motion, because its not bound by the tight knot on the eye. Just food for thought, I aint telling nobody how to fish, but I think you will see a improved number of fish coming to the boat. I know I did