Prepping a Wrapped Loop for Fly Fishing

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The wrapped loop is a little more complicated. Here's what we're going to end up with, obviously this is just the end of the fly line that I've cut off, but you can see here, these are our thread wraps. And we need a couple of things to get that done. One is a sharp knife, razor blade, something like that because we're going to actually shave the end of the fly line down so that it's got a taper so that when we fold it over, there's not a bump there where it meets the fly line. The other thing that makes it easy, not absolutely necessary, is a thread and a bobbin. This would be a bobbin that you would use for fly tying. This just makes it a little bit more easier to deal with the thread. You don't have to hold the spool in your hand while you're spinning it, the bobbin holds it. So that's basically all you need though, and maybe a, some glue or something to finish that off, to kind of protect the thread wraps. You can use glue, or you could use like a clear fingernail polish or something like that. So that's the prep for the wrap loop. This makes a really strong loop, I mean this loop is actually stronger than the fly line itself. Like if I went to break this loop, the line would break back here before the loop would pull out of the thread, so it's a really strong way to make a connection.

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