When you fill your reel with nylon or braid (i.e. backing), you don't always know which knot to use.
It must have 3 features:
- It must slide to tighten around the coil and maintain sufficient tension.
- It must be sturdy, because you never know, you can always have the spool emptied, especially on exotic fishing.
- The braid should not be too voluminous, so that the winding of your braid is linear and clean.
Here are three different nodes:
The arbor knot, the simplest
- Make a knot at the end of your thread.
- Pass the wire around the spool.
- Tie another knot around the main thread.
- Tighten and slide the knot to the spool hub.
- Cut flush and fill your reel.
Second possibility: a strong, effective knot
- Pass the wire around the spool.
- Take a second turn.
- Wrap the wire around the main wire three times.
- Pass the wire back under the wire wound against the hub.
- Tighten the knot and cut flush.
- You can then fill your reel.
Third possibility, the best knot
- Pass the wire around the spool.
- Make a loop.
- Pass your thread through the loop from top to bottom, looping tightly around the main thread.
- Repeat the operation 5 times.
- Tighten the knot and slide it against the spool hub.
- Cut flush and fill your reel.
