![]() ![]() Wet the knot before you snug it up, and it will hold. In the heavy diameter of a butt section, a few wraps is all that’s required. And you don’t need more than three or four turns. It’s just wraps around the line with no added bulk to create any hard angles or hang in the guides. A clinch knot has the same look as a blood knot. The slim profile is exactly why this method works. Don’t “improve” the clinch knot with that final move back through the loop either - it’s unnecessary and adds bulk. Treat it like the eye of a fly and tie it in. Why the Clinch WinsĪ simple clinch knot is all that’s needed to attach the leader to a fly line loop. And if I’m using a long Mono Rig, there’s no way I’m running thirty plus feet of a leader through the little fly line loop when I can so quickly tie a four turn clinch. Is it really a pain? I suppose not, but it’s inefficient, and it makes me irritable. And when you pry the loops apart to change out (which can take some time by itself) you must run the full length of leader through the fly line again. In fact, if you’re swapping out a leader much longer than about ten or twelve feet, it’s a pain to bring the full length of the leader through the small fly line loop to attach the new leader. My second point is a gripe from long liners, specifically. You suck.Įven without a trout attached to the end of your line, the loop to loop connection slows down any shooting or stripping line with its constant friction in the guides. ![]() He bolts, the perfection loop sticks on a guide for a split second, and the tippet snaps. That wild trout of a lifetime decides to take one last joyride. Worse yet, it’ll probably hang up as you stretch out with a fully flexed rod in one hand and a net in the other, straining to reach for the Namer you just fought for five minutes in heavy current. The clunky bump of the handshake between the two loops sticks in the guides as well. No matter how well it’s tied, any perfection loop in a leader still has that blunt end, waiting to bang into one of your rod guides as you strip line through. The loop to loop is a clunky connection that hangs up in the guides far too often. Why Loop to Loop SucksĪlright, here’s my Costanza’s Festivus - Airing of Grievances against loop to loop connections. Then I tied straight into the fly line loop.Īnother look a the clinch connection to the loop. READ: Troutbitten | Get me back to my fly line - Connecting and disconnecting the Mono RigĪnd when the slim loops appeared in the fly line, I ditched the nail knot and the extra lead piece of Chameleon and the tippet ring. So when I wanted to remove the sometimes thirty plus feet of Mono Rig and swap out for a standard length leader, I started using a simple clinch knot to a tippet ring. Probably the most seldom used method for attaching a leader is also the simplest. And instead of slicing the loop off, I tied my clinch knot directly into it. ![]() And it was hard to argue that such a lean loop could affect the cast much at all. But a few years ago, my favorite line appeared with a slim loop right out of the box. The first welded loops were bulky and overdone, and I just couldn’t get past the extra mass at the end of a fine fly line taper. Honestly, I clipped all those loops off until a few years ago. (I made up that figure myself, but it seems about right.) Ninety percent of fly lines these days come with welded loops. About a decade ago, the trend started with high end lines, and it filtered down to the rest. Some new guys might not remember when fly lines shipped without loops on both ends. Hand tied fly line loop with a loop to loop connection. ![]()
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