How to Attach Backing to Main Line with a Double, Double Uni Knot?

Double Double Uni Knot

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Splicing backing to your main line is easy to do using a double, double Uni knot. Watch as walleye sensei, Dale Gilbert, walks through the step-by-step process of tying a double, double Uni.

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How to Attach Backing to Your Main Line

We could talk here about how you actually splice your backing to your main line with this double double uni knot. I'll start out with my backing, which was going to be like a 10 pound XT monofilament, and I'll get a section of that.

Here I've got it laying there. And then I've got my FireLine, which is going to be my main line. What I do, first of all, is take maybe 18 inches or so or a good foot... Probably 18 inches of this and I'll take my FireLine here, and I'll actually double it. So, I actually have two strands of the FireLine here, and then one strand of my backing right here. What I'll do is I'll lay these two things together, okay, because basically I want to tie one to the other and the other to the other again.

First, Create Your Loop

So, first thing I do is, in this case, I'll take my monofilament backing, and I'm going to try to tie this to my leader and I'll create a loop. Okay? You can kind of see this loop hanging down here. And then what I want to do is I want to take the tag end of that leader, and I want it back through that loop. In this case, I want to do it six times.

One. Two. And I'm putting that so it's going over the other line, back through the loop, six times. Three. Four. Five. Six.

And then once I've got that done, as I just barely carefully kind of snug up the whole thing... I don't want to get it real tight yet. I just want it kind of halfway tight and then leave it. Okay, so you can kind of see this knot that's started to work out here.

Where the Loop and Backing Meet

The next thing I need to do then is to take my FireLine and tie that to my backing here. So, here's my backing. Here's my FireLine, the double thing. And I want to do the same thing. I want to create a loop like so, and then, in this case, I want to do this... Hang out of that loop. Then, in this case, because it is the FireLine a thinner line, I'm going to do this actually eight times. I'm going to take that thing and put it back through that loop.

There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight times. Then I've got all that stuff. So again, I just carefully snug it all up. Don't get it real tight, yet. Moisten those. Now, you'll see both of those knots. There's one right here, and there's one right here. What I want to do is I want to pull them together like so.

Getting the Slack out of the Knots

Once I get them pretty close together, then I'm going to start to tighten everything up and that's grabbing all of the lines and pulling to get the slack out of the knots as much as I can. Sometimes it takes to pulling just on the tag in, sometimes on the main line, and once I got it all done, you take your tag ends. You can trim them off. You can turn them off pretty close to what you tied. Not a problem.

Getting the Double Double Uni Knot

Take my other tag end off my other knot here. Snip her off, and you got the double double uni knot that puts those two lines together and makes a really good strong connection. So, that's what I do to attach my backing to my main lines in all cases, the double double uni knot.

If you've got any questions or need any further information, just stop by any of the North 40 Outfitters stores or check the website at north40.com. Thanks for watching and hope to see you again. Thanks.

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