Category Archives: fly fishing equipment

The wrapped loop is a little more complicated Here's what we're going to end up with, obviously this is just the end of the fly line that I've cut off, but you can see here, these are our thread wraps And we need a couple of things to get that […]

Okay, now we've got our fly line on our reel and we need to attach the liter to the fly line This is one of the more difficult connections that you'll have to make with your fly fishing equipment And once again we're using the nail-knot tool This tool was […]

Okay, in this series, we're going to be doing a knot, and knots that will apply specifically to you fly casting equipment And basically what we're going to do is we're going to go from the reel all the way out to the liter And I'm going to show you […]

The next loop we're going to do is a perfection loop It's a little bit harder to tie but it's a nicer loop and it comes out a lot smoother when you're finished with it What you want to do is start off, you make one loop like so, then […]

Alright, the first knot we need to do is the arbor knot, and that's to attach the backing to the reel, the spool of the reel This is what we call the arbor, here This will also work for spinning tackle, or bait casting tackle, anyway, you need to attach […]

Okay, the other way to attach your backing to your fly line is with a needle knot For this you just need a big needle It doesn't really matter what it's for, as long as the eye is big enough to get the backing through the eye of the needle […]

Okay, the next one we're going to do is the nail knot, and that's going to be used to tie the backing to the fly line and we're going to do it with the nail knot tool I'll show you, in a second, another way to do it without a […]

First thing we need to do is shave that fly line down a little bit so that we get a nice taper, so basically just trap it there and just pull it It doesn't have to be anything exact, you just want to get a little taper there so when […]

Okay, we're going to attach the liter to the fly line again, but this time we're going to do it with a needle We're still doing a nail knot, but we're just going to do it a little bit easier way Same thing, we're going to line up the fly […]

Here's another shot of that professional loop done with the fly line, a little bit less bulky This works with bulky materials pretty well, maybe not as well on the rope but definitely on the fly line where the section here looks pretty thick So once again, we're just going […]