Fly Fishing Nail Knots

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Okay, the next one we're going to do is the nail knot, and that's going to be used to tie the backing to the fly line and we're going to do it with the nail knot tool. I'll show you, in a second, another way to do it without a nail knot tool. Okay, first you want to put the fly line in the nail knot tool like so, then we take the backing, lay that in there with the nail knot tool. And what we're going to do is just wrap the end of the backing over itself and the fly line and we're going to go this way. And we only need to make four wraps, so we're going to go one, two, three, four. Okay, now, that nail knot tool is designed so we can take the end of that and just slide it underneath the wraps we just made. Okay, once you get it through there, the tricky part is keeping those wraps nice and even while we pull it tight. First we pull it tight from the short end. And then we pull the long end and slide the whole thing off the nail-knot tool. Then keep it trapped under your fingers, tighten it up, and then you give it a nice, even pull on either side, and when you're done it looks like that. The trick with this particular knot is that it grabs the fly line when you tighten it up and it doesn't just rip right off. So, that's the knot you need to do to tie your backing to your fly line.

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