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Knots are crucial to ones enjoyment of fly fishing. Nothing worse than losing the big one (and your favourite fly) because you didn’t tie the fly on properly, or even worse, loosing you’re entire fly line

At the start of every season, be sure to check all of your knots – last year I lost a fly line when the knot failed where it was connected to my backing – there was no hint of an issue the previous season, and I had landed many fish on that line.  Perhaps over the winter, the cold contracts everything and the knots weaken?  I’m not sure – but now I check all of my knots!

Here are the main knots you’ll need when putting your fly rod and reel together.

1. Attaching backing to your reel:

2. Attaching fly line to backing:

3. Attaching leader to fly line:

4. Attaching tippet to leader:

5. Attaching your lures :

Of course, there are many ways of attaching your flies to your line…

Here’s another way of attaching your lure right from the Trilene box ;^):

And another popular method, the Duncan Loop, which allows the fly to move more freely in the current;

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