Maintain Your Fishing Line & Knot When Fly Fishing

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Hi! I’m Jim Dowd with Zoar Outdoor. I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk with you about fly casting and fly fishing. Over the course of your fly fishing career, you will do an awful lot of nighttime, so here are a couple of basic things to keep in mind with regard to knots. The first is that when you tie a knot, as you draw the knot down just before you pull everything snug together, make sure you moisten it. This way you will avoid friction which causes heat and can damage or weakens a knot. The second thing to keep in mind is that when you are snugging down a knot, do it nicely, nice and smooth: in other words, easy slow movement. If you jerk or pull or suddenly yank on the knot, that will cause the knot to fail and friction will have an impact on the way you tie the knot. The third thing that you need to make sure of always is to check the knot in your hands before you fish it. It is far better to break a knot off that has been poorly tied or has some defect in it than in your hands than it is lose it and what is possibly the fish of the lifetime. Believe me, it will happen if you don't check your knot. You'll lose it in a fish. The fourth and last thing to keep in mind, and make it always a practice, is to check your knot and your hook periodically in case there is any damage or weakness from the use in the casting. So keep those 4 principles in mind. They'll serve you well throughout your fishing career.

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