Tying a Surgeon's Knot with Fly Fishing Line

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Part of the video series: Fly Fishing Line to Line Knots

Summary: Using fly fishing line to tie surgeon's knots. Learn about fly fishing knots, equipment, and techniques in this free video.

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Alvin Dedeaux Alvin Dedeaux has been a fly fishing guide and casting instructor for 12 years, and has been fly fishing for 32 years. He is a graduate of the first Joan Wul... read more

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Tying a Surgeon's Knot with Fly Fishing Line

So once again, if you don't want to try to tie this really complicated Blood Knot, you can always do the Surgeon's Knot; much easier. Take your two materials we're going to tie together, overlap them, put an overhand knot right in the middle of that connection, like so, go back through that connection again, pull them tight. Works great for monofilament to monofilament, backing to backing, and the only difference is that it's a little bit bulkier and it will put sometimes just a little kink in it compared to the Blood Knot. But it's a lot easier to tie. Let's try that one again. So here's my leader, there's my tippet, and I'm going to do a Surgeon's Knot. Go overhand knot, pull it through, one more overhand knot, pull it through, looks like that, tighten it up, pull the long ends, pull the short ends, then you're done. Very simple and very effective.

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