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hi I'm Tom Kira would take me fishing and today we're going to talk about knots tying a good knot is a critical link between your fishing line and your lure and it's what puts you're catching than that today we're going to learn to tie the surgeon's knot the surgeon's knot is really easy to tie tests out at about a hundred percent breaking strength and it's used for connecting two lines of similar diameters to tie a surgeon's knot start by laying the line and the leader on top of each other overlap them by several inches then use both lines to form a loop with enough overlap to tie a double overhand knot and then pull the tag end and the standing line of the leader through the loop then repeat that step moisten the knot with some of your saliva or water and pull tightly to sea at this point you can trim the tag ends close to the knot or you can leave them long and attach a fly as a dropper rig if you're fishing in an area that has a lot of vegetation you might want to leave them long b