this is Tom rised or fat anglers Lane and he's going to be talking us through the basics of setting up a fly reel talking about backing and fly line Tom tell me about what we're dealing with here what kind of setup we're looking at well first we start out with her backing and depending on what reel it is the manufacturer will have a chart on their website or in the package on packaging for the reel it'll tell you how much back you need to put on with what weight line so we put the backing on and then I normally tie a nail knot from the back into the fly line then from the fly line you go to the leader and the leaders are typically seven and a half or nine feet there are shorter and longer but but the normal or southern half of nine feet now the last about eighteen or just a two feet of every tapered leader is the tippet the tip it is not tapered so you attach your leader usually there's a loop to loop connector means the leaders got a loop on the end and your fly line usually has a loop in the end I'll show you how to do a nail nut if your leader is not does not have a loop on it or the fly line does not have a loop but so as you change flies so let's say you change fly six seven times all of a sudden that two feet of tippet gets cut back and you're seven and a half foot leader is now five and a half to six feet long well now it's time to attach a piece of tip so you'll take your tip at school and you'll put two more feet of line on there tonight like I said before I normally use a triple surgeon's knot to do it you can use a blood model so the triple surgeon's knot is easier to use alright and today you're going to be showing us how to tie the nail knot yep all right let's go ahead and check that out when you're using the knit kind of nail knot where the nail knot tool is the easiest way to do it there are a few different ways to do it but using nail nut tool is very simple I put my thumb on the line when I put the leader through this channel here and then I wrap it the five or six times going back up the tool this way then I grab the tag end put it underneath the knot and put the fly line right in here I have a little bit of extra then I grab that tag in pull it off quickly there we go I pull that whole knot off the tool snug them on snug it here so I get back there let's clean it up a little bit I'm flipping the tag in and clicking the fly line in and I can actually get that a little bit tighter so you can get a nice straight pull there well there's there's usually only two knots that you're going to use to put you're going to use the Albright knot or the nail knot the Albright knot the advantage of the Albright knot is that you have looped your line and the lines going through it and then around it so is actually pulling on the loop it's pulling on itself which is a very very strong knot I use the nail knot on the smaller lines five weights in lower because when you're time wrapping around the the coating of the line if you get a real big fish on there he could literally pull that leader through the coating of the line and I could lose a career fish