How To Attach Tippet To Your Leader With The Surgeon's Knot

30 thoughts on “How To Attach Tippet To Your Leader With The Surgeon's Knot

  1. Dan Dorris says:

    Subscribed, haven’t bought any fly fishing equipment yet but been watching a lot of you videos trying to learn. Still can’t figure out what a tippet is. Sorry for the dumb question.

  2. Sports TV says:

    thank you so much this knot saved me befor this i couldent tie my smaller flies because the leader was getting durther to the butt but now i can thank you
    aND ITS SO EASY

  3. Hambone says:

    If the butt section of your leader is attached to your fly line how do you take it through the loop? You’d have to detach it from your fly line, wouldn’t you? How is this better? There are many knots that don’t require that.

  4. Nuno Freire says:

    How much tippet do you add? Do add just the missing length, e.g. 1 foot like you mention on the video, or you replace the entire tippet length and tie the news tippet to the leader where it starts to get larger? Did I make myself clear?

  5. tmass says:

    Question, how do you pull the butt end through the loop if the leader is connected to the fly line? Do you have to disconnect the leader first? If so why not just replace the leader? Sorry, I'm a newbie.:)

  6. Matthew Horne says:

    Can you use this same knot to attach the leader to the fly line? The reel I bought to start with does not have line with loop. I know I can upgrade it to line with a loop but until I do I'd like to know if it'd work. Thank you

  7. Joe Wilkerson says:

    Love fly fishing even using E. Tx. bass fishing methods. I very much like your way of tying a leader to fly line and a tipit to fly line. I have a fly line on my reel and because I did not know how to tie correct knot I used one of those barbed eyelets to attach leader. Should I just scrap fly line or what? I have not fly fished for quiet a while, but in younger years fished a lot on stream in back of mom and dads cabin and caught quiet a few Rainbows and some Browns. Thanks for your tutorials and advice.

    Joe

  8. Robert Wilcken says:

    Thanks for the surgeons knot! There is not a problem bringing the tippet end through twice instead of the leader end is there? I noticed you said to bring the leader end through twice which would make it done prior to leader to line. Thank, just starting fly fishing at 65, love it!

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