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You're going to take, and you're going to make a loop, and you're going to
pinch it down. I've got the premier two hundred pound fluoro right here. You're going to take
about two feet, give or take. Thats kind of important of your braided line. As I said,
I like to go up, it doesn't really matter, but this is just the way I remember it. I'm
going to take the two feet that I've just brought through that loop, okay, and I'm going
to catch it. Now I've got two feet, I've got the loop, and I've got everything in my left
hand. You're going to keep everything in your left hand. You're going to stretch out your
lead line, and you're going to start wrapping with everything in your left hand. You're
going to wrap it nice and tight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,fifteen, Okay. Now remember, I came up through, okay.
So you're going to take your tag end, which is what you have left here. You're going to
go back through one time, like that, you're going to pull it tight around the top, and
you're going to do it again. I'll show you why in just a second. Once you pull it through
that second time, you're going to take your lead line, pull it tight, and there will be
no reason to have it in your left hand. Your knot is there. Thats it. Thats what your albright
is going to be. Now here's how you finish it up. I've already ran it through twice.
I'm going to push it just like that. I don't wet it, I don't do any of that stuff. Now,
if you look real close and get in here nice and tight, you can see the two loops right
here where I went through twice will keep that knot from slipping over the top. What
I'm going to do is I'm going to grab the tag end and I'm going to pull that one first.
See how it just slipped it back down and held it in place. Now I'm just going to give this
a a little tug. Now for all intensive purposes, I can do whatever I want with this knot, okay.
Its not tight yet but I don't have to worry about it coming loose, and I don't have to
worry about, you know, essentially I've got the knot tied. I just need to finish it up.
Now heres what I'm going to do. I'm going to take the fluoro, the two hundred just short
of the knot and I'm going to go around my foot one, two, three times around my tennis
shoes. Okay. Which is going to leave me with the knot with a tag end, and with a lead end.
Got things a little tied up there. Okay, thats my tag end, and this is my lead end. This
is going to go to my rod, and this is my tag end. Now, while I've still got ahold of both
of them, I'm going to take any, you can see how much I've used this, this is very important.
Get any screwdriver thats got a hard plastic handle, phillips head or otherwise, that will
bite down, but it can't be any type of sharp edge. And typically speaking, I'm going to
start with my lead end first. three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Then I'm
going to put my thumb on that. Now I've got my tag end. So now I've got my lead end, my
tag end is in my left hand. I'm going to put it in my mouth. I'm going to pick up my other
screw driver which is the exact same thing. The reason I always do the lead end first
is because Its easier to wrap the tag end like this five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Now, heres where I think people make a mistake with an albright. What they do not do, is
they do not tighten it up enough times. You need to pull, depending on, this is what,
fifty pound braid to two hundred pound fluoro which I do. I would do that for groupers if
I had a bunch of really sticky bottom or something like that to where I needed that flouro. Number
1 for the stretch, but also if that grouper is digging around in a cave, to get him out.
You're going to start pulling on the tag end one time, then you're going to pull on the
lead. Now if its fifty pounds, I legitimately want to put, thats why the screw driver. Back
to the tag end. I legitimately want to put on fifteen pounds. fifteen to twenty pounds
of pressure on it and sustain it. You can see I'm actually shaking just a hair. And
go back. I'm going to do it at least three times. Then I'm going to show you something
here in just a second, because if you do it correctly, you'll know. Now, this will make
the fourth time, just for good measure. So I'm going to take this all out. Thats my tag
end. Now, if you'll get in here real close and look. This is braided line. It no longer
looks like braided line. I've pulled it so tight along that monofilament, it has adopted
translucent properties of the fluorocarbon. In other words, its clear. You'll know when
you pull this thing tight enough, because when you do, if you actually watch it, whatever
the color is of the braided line that you're using. You'll see it go from an opaque color
which is very refracting in terms of light, to a clear translucence over the fluorocarbon,
and thats when you know that you've really got it. Now, I always cut my tag a little
short. Just about right there because it doesn't matter. We come back to our albright. I'll
cut the tag off with about three quarters of an inch because its going to fray up anyways.
Now, the very important thing as well. You never want to leave your fluoro tag too long
but you don't want to cut it to short. You want to leave it just enough to where the
barrel of the knot is just over the flouro, but you don't want to leave it too long to
where it'll hang up on the guides if you're reeling through the guides. So if you snip
this off nice and snug, and you snip off your tag end. You've got yourself a nice Albright.
Stick with me. I'll get something to cut it and be right back.
Now when your all finished this is my lead
line to my fluoro. fifty to two hundred good grouper digger right there Ajs probably too
much for pretty much ground fish is what you are going to do groupers snappers Ajs anything.
You have got a nice short fluoro carbon tag right there that will go through the guide
real easy nice long tag pretty little barrel translucent that will hold up it will pull
harder than you will