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Fly Fishing Knots - The Blood Knot is one of the strongest knots for tying together two lines of equal or different diameters.
Steps to tie the Blood Knot:
- Overlap the two lines allowing an area of about six-inches to work with.
Take one line and wrap it around the other line 5 times.
- Grasp the tag end of the line you just twisted and feed it down in-between the two lines, in front of the first twist you made.
- Repeat with other end, twisting in the opposite direction and directing the tag end upward into the middle loop that has been created.
- Slowly pull the lines simultaneously in opposite directions until the knot is tight.
- Once knot is seated, clip the tag ends closely.
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