“Kopok” bodied trout fly and made 
bass flies with painted bodies. 
Returning to leader tying. Suppose 
that we are using a 13” gut and the 
first leader we want to tie is a fairly 
large one—7% or 8 ft., for use with 
wet flies upon a large stream whose 
waters are clear and granite bottomed. 
Take a strand of Padron 2nd, and on 
your upper or line end tie a loop. The 
easiest manner of doing this is shown 
in Fig. 1. “A” shows the start, “B” 
the loop pushed through to form the 
knot, and “C” the completed knot; cut 
off protruding end. This is the or- 
dinary loop, but has the disadvantage 
of uneven strain upon one side of the 
strand of gut; as can be seen upon 
examination of the drawing. The cor- 
rect and far better method is shown in 
Fig. 2. Make a loop at end of gut and 
make another turn around it. “A” 
Draw the end “z’’ down between loops 
“x” and “y” and hold at “x.” B—Pull 
loop ‘x” om through loop “y” and 
pull tight. C—Cut off protruding end, 
take a second strand of gut and at the 
opposite end from the loop just tied, 
attach by one of the following methods. 
Fig. 3 shows the Single Water Knot. 
Lay the two strands of gut overlapping 
about 1% inches, with each end tie an 
ordinary single knot around the other 
strand. A—Pull knots tight, hold at 
“x” and “y’” and pull—knots will slide 
together. Turn each end over strand 
and through the loop thus formed. B— 
Pull ends tight and cut off close. Fig. 
4 shows the double water knot which 
differs only from the above in that the 
strands are passed twice around each 
other. ist stop in Fig. 3—instead of 
but once. This can readily be seen by 
a glance at Fig. 4. 
The best knot—in my opinion—is the 
“parrel-knot” shown in Fig. 5. Lap 
two strands of gut “x” and “y.” Hold 
at “z,” turn end “x” toward you, mak- 
ink two complete turns, fold back un- 
der “y” and hold at “z” with right 
hand. B—Turn end “y” down over 
end “x”? and main strand beneath. C— 
Make two turns of “y” up and around 
main strand only pen you (or you can 
reverse the position of the two strands 
and repeat “C”), and pass end back 
through same loop with ‘“‘n” “d.”’ Hold 
both main strands and pull knot tight. 
E—Pull steadily. Cut off close in cen- 
ter. Continue adding strand to strand 
until the desired length of leader is 
obtained. Tie another “loop knot” at 
the lower end of the leader, similar to 
that at the upper. 
As wet fly fishing is usually done 
with from 2 to 3 flies, tied to snells— 
short lengths of gut, say from 5 to 8 
inches—there must be allowance made 
to attach them to the leader itself. 
Fig 6 shows the simplest method, but 
one that allows “sawing” of the gut. 
These “dropper loops” are placed about 
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