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How To Braided Loops

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Here's a tutorial on how to make your own braided loops. I have been making and using braided loops for many years fishing for many different species of fish in saltwater and never had 1 of these ever fail on me.

 

Things you need:

 

1. Gudebrod Braided Butt Leader

2. Guitar string

3. Surgical tubing

4. Insta-Cure(similar to crazy glue)

5. Scissors

 

Here's the step by step.

 

Insert guitar string into the braid approximately 2-3 inches

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Place end of braid into the middle of the guitar string

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Pull guitar string along with the end of the braid back through itself

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Apply a drop or 2 of insta-cure

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Cut a small piece of clear surgical tubing (don't use heat shrink tubing) and place it over the guitar string

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Place end of braided loop inside the guitar string loop

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Pull braid through the tubing

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Start inserting your fly line into the braid

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Clip the frayed ends of the braid

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Pull the tubing down to where the braid ends on the fly line

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Apply a drop of Insta-cure on each end of the tubing

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There you have it; these loops will last for a full year's worth of fishing. Again I never had 1 fail on me doing it this way, I replace them once a year. I will be putting up a video on Youtube sometime soon and will post the link here.

 

 

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Very nice!

 

What a great first post. You show up and give a great step by step with photos!

 

as Two said, welcome to the board!

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Great post...

 

 

 

One question..

 

 

 

Where can a foreigner like me buy this stuff online? :dunno:

 

 

 

Thanks again for great post...

 

 

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Thank you all for the warm welcome!!! :D I have been lurking on this site for quite some time, reading a lot of very good informative posts and finally decided to share what I know with all of you.

 

Where can a foreigner like me buy this stuff online? :dunno:

 

Here's some links for Gudebrod Braided Butt Leader, I hope you will be able to order it from them.

 

Gudebrod

Gudebrod

Gudebrod

 

The Insta-Cure

 

Glue

 

You can pick up the tubing at most surgical supply stores. Its better that you actually see what you're getting you want very small diameter tubing that's flexible.

 

:headbang: Thanks for sharring, looking forward to the video.

 

I still need to edit and upload it to Youtube, I will post the link here when it's finished.

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Nice post, very clear photos. Thanks.

 

One question, why not use shrink wrap tubing? Just curious.

 

- Olórin

 

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Nice post, very clear photos. Thanks.

 

One question, why not use shrink wrap tubing? Just curious.

 

- Olórin

 

Heat shrink tubing will eventually crack and come apart especially when used in saltwater you won't have that problem when using surgical tubing. I have used this system for many years, I change my loops on all my fly lines once per year after fishing 3-5 times per week from April through December in saltwater.

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