06-01-2008, 03:58 PM
Here is a very simple to tie knot for tying your fly line to a leader. Also, One can untie it easier than most knots.
Few are aware of this knot but those that have used it swear by it. Some of those have been using it for many decades. My first use of it was on a cold winter day on the Dream Stream with the wind blowing 90 to nothing and I found that the braided loop attached to my leader was failing.
It is a very easy knot to tie and untie in cold weather. It has been a standard knot in the carbou lands of Lapland for centuries to lash loads down.
I first came across it on another forums website run by James Castwell. On that site he calls it a Castwell knot simply because at the time he could not find another reference to it.
Here is the webpage with the a pictorial of the knot. You will need to scroll down this page of bends to the Lap Knot.
[url "http://www.realknots.com/knots/sheetb.htm#Xschootsteek"]http://www.realknots.com/...etb.htm#Xschootsteek[/url]
Note that you must make the "bend" with the fly line; not the leader. The bend, fly line is the right side of the pictorial. The leader is the left side of the pictorial. It comes undone very easily if the "loop around and through" is made with the stiff butt end of a leader rather than the tag end of the flyline. You also have to pay attention to the direction of the flyline's loop around with respect to the tag end of the leader. Reversing it makes a less secure connection. I have used this knot with leaders that have a loop, such as a perfection loop, tied in the butt end of the leader.
If you do a google search for the " castwell knot" I think you will find a much better demonstration of the knot than the reference I have above. But I can not post the site here since it also has a forum on the site.
I just found another website that now has the castwell knot.
[url "http://www.pechetruite.com/Noeuds/Albright-Castwell%20knots.htm"]http://www.pechetruite.com/...Castwell%20knots.htm[/url]
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Few are aware of this knot but those that have used it swear by it. Some of those have been using it for many decades. My first use of it was on a cold winter day on the Dream Stream with the wind blowing 90 to nothing and I found that the braided loop attached to my leader was failing.
It is a very easy knot to tie and untie in cold weather. It has been a standard knot in the carbou lands of Lapland for centuries to lash loads down.
I first came across it on another forums website run by James Castwell. On that site he calls it a Castwell knot simply because at the time he could not find another reference to it.
Here is the webpage with the a pictorial of the knot. You will need to scroll down this page of bends to the Lap Knot.
[url "http://www.realknots.com/knots/sheetb.htm#Xschootsteek"]http://www.realknots.com/...etb.htm#Xschootsteek[/url]
Note that you must make the "bend" with the fly line; not the leader. The bend, fly line is the right side of the pictorial. The leader is the left side of the pictorial. It comes undone very easily if the "loop around and through" is made with the stiff butt end of a leader rather than the tag end of the flyline. You also have to pay attention to the direction of the flyline's loop around with respect to the tag end of the leader. Reversing it makes a less secure connection. I have used this knot with leaders that have a loop, such as a perfection loop, tied in the butt end of the leader.
If you do a google search for the " castwell knot" I think you will find a much better demonstration of the knot than the reference I have above. But I can not post the site here since it also has a forum on the site.
I just found another website that now has the castwell knot.
[url "http://www.pechetruite.com/Noeuds/Albright-Castwell%20knots.htm"]http://www.pechetruite.com/...Castwell%20knots.htm[/url]
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