How to tie the Reverse Albright Knot

     One thing you can’t buy is a good knot.

 

Rigging expert Larry Mastry, of Mastry’s Bait and Tackle located in St. Petersburg FL, demonstrates how to tie the reverse albright knot.

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Confused?  See the diagram below from ScientificAnglers.com

Unwind 2-3 feet of fly line from the plastic spool it came on (make sure you unwind the end marked “this end to reel”).

Start by doubling back a couple of inches of fly line and hold the loop with your left thumb and forefinger. From the right, insert about 10 inches of the backing through the fly line loop.                                 

                                  

 

 

 

While holding the loop, pinch the backing between your left thumb andforefinger, and use your right hand to wrap the backing tag end back over both strands of the fly line and the backing.

Start next to your fingers and working toward the loop end, make 10 to 12 fairly tight wraps.

 

 

Push the tag end of the backing back through the loop on the side opposite where it originally entered so both backing strands exit on the same side of the loop. Pull on the standing part of the backing to remove the loop you where holding in your left hand. Pull both ends of the fly line backing.

 

 

 

 

 

 Pull gently on both ends of the fly line loop with your left hand; squeeze the knot with the fingers of your right hand and work it down to the loop end, but not off the fly line. Moisten the knot. Hold the standing and tag fly line strands in your left hand, and the tag and standing backing strands in your right hand. Pull as tight as possible. Clip off the tag end of the fly line and the backing.

You’re now ready to wind the line over the backing onto the spool.

Here’s where a friend can help by inserting a pencil through the hole in the line spool and holding it while you wind the line onto the reel spool under slight tension. Once the line is fully transferred to the reel spool, you should have approximately 3/16 inches between the line and the outside rim of the spool. As a final touch, put the pressure sensitive label, “Fly Line Marker,” on the reel spool so you can always tell what line is on that spool.

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