Wrapped Loops in Fly Fishing

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Summary: Fly fishing with a wrapped loop. Learn about fly fishing equipment, poles, supplies, and setting up reels in this free video.

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Wrapped Loops in Fly Fishing

First thing we need to do is shave that fly line down a little bit so that we get a nice taper, so basically just trap it there and just pull it. It doesn't have to be anything exact, you just want to get a little taper there so when you fold those things together you don't get a big loop. Okay, so there's that. And just fold it over and you can make it as, you know, as big a loop as you want. About like that, maybe half an inch of overlap is usually good. Okay, we take our thread, we just kind of get it started here. Nice and tight, you want to make these wraps pretty tight, a few tight ones. Now here's the trick to this. The best way to get it really tight, especially if you're using the bobbin, and it's really easy, is just kind of spin the bobbin, I'm going to just spin the bobbin and wrap it back this way over that connection, so, here goes, just got to get it going. Spin that thing, that'll make it a lot tighter then if I just did it by hand. Pull out a little bit of extra, spin it back a little more, spin it back in the direction we started. Then you could just go over it a couple of times, maybe back and forth a couple of times. Okay, that's good. Then you can do a couple of overhead knots and that thread just to finish it off. Clip everything off nice and close. And the only other thing you need to do with this now is coat that, like I said, with a head cement with your fly tying equipment or maybe clear finger nail polish and that just protects the threads. But that loop there is ready to go.