11-16-2005, 01:59 PM
Knots are a personal thing. I like a nail knot to put my fly line and tapered leader together. I then swear by a blood knot to tie my tapered leader to my tipit. I also use a blood knot to add more tipit to rebuild my tapered leader when it gets short. My tapered leader lasts a long time if I rebuild it. To tie my fly to my tipit, I use a knot that I can only describe as a hangmans knot. It is a slip knot where the tipit is put through the eye of the hook and then forming a loop I wrap the line several times and then thread the end of the line through the loop. Pull on the line and it slips down to the eye of the hook and then cut off the excess line.
The blood knot takes some practice so use a surgeon's knot in place of the blood knot until you learn how to tie it.
A surgeon's knot is just two half hitches tied together.
Stop into any good fly shop and they will be happy to help you with the knots. Like James said, if they don't want to help you then they don't want your business.
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The blood knot takes some practice so use a surgeon's knot in place of the blood knot until you learn how to tie it.
A surgeon's knot is just two half hitches tied together.
Stop into any good fly shop and they will be happy to help you with the knots. Like James said, if they don't want to help you then they don't want your business.
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