Platypus fishing lines - Australia's strongest since 1898

Platypus Fishing Line: Australia's strongest fishing line since 1898

Knots & Rigs Silly Snell

  1. Step 1 - click to enlarge Step 1. Thread the tag through the eye of the hook and wrap the line around the shank, taking care you wrap away from the end of the wire which has been rolled to form the eye of the hook. This is most important.
  2. Step 2 - click to enlargeStep 2. Begin wrapping back up the shank of the hook with the tag.
  3. Step 3 - click to enlarge Step 3. Continue almost back to the eye of the hook so that you have a binding some 1.5cm (5/8") long. Then simply tuck the tag under the last wrap as shown.
  4. Step 4 - click to enlarge Step 4. Slide the wraps up the eye of the hook, pulling on the line to tighten the snell.
Selected photographs courtesy of Dean Butler Fish Pix