{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Howcomezit -- loop knots

Hey, howcomes a loop knot?  My experience with them suggests:

1.  They give great action when you play with the fly with your fingeres, and then on the first cast they swing around and foul on the hook eye and/or head/bead chain/etc. of the fly.  

2.  Popular types (Non-slip mono loop, hipster tarpon loop, etc.) are difficult to tie in a small enough size to prevent #1, whereas types that are easy to tie very small (Duncan loop) collapse under pressure.  

3.  If you attach your tippet > leader with a blood or surgeon knot and use one of the two loops listed above, you will certainly lose your entire tippet section when you hang bottom given that the breakage will occur on the leader.  

So you're either a monster who litters the stream bottom with tippet and flies, or you could fish only with level leaders!  You're one or the other!  

Gene

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