How 2 Tuesday - Slim Beauty From Braid to Fluorocarbon - Origins, Strengths, and Purposes - #737
Tom Rowland Podcast
Waypoint TV
4.9 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Fishing like a local isn't just about catching fish. |
| 0:03.6 | It's about connecting with the environment and the people who call it home. |
| 0:08.0 | It's about hearing the stories and traditions that have been passed down for generations and sharing unforgettable moments with the people |
| 0:15.7 | you meet along the way. |
| 0:17.9 | Fishing like a local is having an experience that stays with you forever. |
| 0:22.2 | And with Fishing Booker, you can experience it too, no matter where you are. |
| 0:26.7 | Discover your next adventure on Fishing Booker. What's going on everybody? It's how to Tuesday and we're talking about knots again today and we're talking about knots that are traditionally used for tarpin leaders. |
| 0:49.0 | One of those knots is the Slim Beauty. The Slim Beauty is a really cool knot |
| 0:54.4 | because it comes out of, it's one of these things |
| 0:58.4 | that was a true worldwide viral sensation even before the internet. |
| 1:05.9 | My friend Simon Becker and I were messing around |
| 1:08.8 | with different knots and he was trying to come up |
| 1:11.5 | with a way that we could eliminate the Bemini twist from our TARPin |
| 1:16.8 | setups because the Bemini twist would take a long time. |
| 1:19.8 | I used to tie a Bemini twist on one end of a line. There's your IGFA leader, a |
| 1:25.1 | Bimini twist on the other end of the line, and I would just tie these over and |
| 1:29.1 | over and over again. I used to put them on a coat hanger and I would have |
| 1:32.0 | hundreds of bimini twists hanging in the closet. |
| 1:35.4 | And then what we would do with that is that we would then tie a Huffnegal knot from the |
| 1:40.2 | bimini twist to the leader, and then we would store these leaders in a leader |
| 1:47.0 | stretcher box that would keep tension on the monophylliment, and you had a fly, you had the whole thing ready to go. |
| 1:53.8 | Super slick, but it took a tremendous amount of time to prepare for that. |
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