Splicing a loop

Splicing a loop

Now this is something that you are going to have to practise, but well put across with picture, check out the full article which has more details........

It seems to make most folks pretty nervous to cut and splice a fly line or to put neat little loops at the ends of one. Most folks end up using braided loops or just use a line the way it comes rather than changing it. The point of this article is to show you how easy it is to make a loop in the end of a fly line. All it take is patience and practice. I will admit that the first few I did were tough. Like everything will patience and practice I am pretty good at it now. The instructions show how to do a loop. To splice lines together use the same techniques but skip the loop. Just pull the two cores together until the covers meet and you are done.

First we need to get the cover off the core. This can be done in a few different ways depending on the line construction. Sometimes you dip it in acetone and off it comes.

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Thanks to Jack Cook for this fantastic information.

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