Fly Fishing Nail Knot for Leader

Video Transcript

"Okay, now we've got our fly line on our reel and we need to attach the liter to the fly line. This is one of the more difficult connections that you'll have to make with your fly fishing equipment. And once again we're using the nail-knot tool. This tool was made specifically for tying nail-knots. You can find it at most fly shops. Sometimes at, you know academy or something like that. It's a pretty specific tool and it doesn't really do anything else. It comes in all different kinds of shapes and styles, sometimes it'll be in the shape of a fish or something like that. This one has a pair of clippers attached to it. But, here's what we're going to do. Lay that fly line in the nail-knot tool again with the tip sticking out. The end of the liter goes the opposite direction. That lays in there with the fly line. Grab the end of the liter and we're just going to wrap it back over the whole thing, going this way once again. Four wraps is all we need, so, one, two, three, four wraps. And then we take the end and go back underneath the wraps we just made. And now is the hard part, just keeping those wraps lined up while we tighten it up and slide it off the tool. Tuck it between our thumb and your forefinger, sort of pull the tool out and then, we'll pull it from the back end here, while keeping it tight on the other end. Switch over to the other hand, pull the other side. You have to be careful not to pull it off the end of the fly line too, that's also a problem. When it's done, it looks something like that. Give it a nice tug and we're finished."