there are times when you're going to want to use split
shot when you're nipping it's not fun [Music]
it doesn't cast very well you can hit yourself with it but there are times when you want to
get down quickly into a deep pool that a split shot or two is going to help you get down so I'm
going to show you how to rig with split shot not very hard you're going to need a knot or
you're going to need a tippet ring because split shot will slide down your leader no
matter what you do and you don't want to put just an overhand knot in your tippet because
that's going to really weaken the tip it you need to put a knot like a surgeon's knot or
a blood knot in your leader and then put the split shot above there so you figure out how
far you want the split shot from your flies in very slow calm water you may want to be as
far as 18 inches away from your flies with your split shot in fast deep water you may want to be
as close as four to eight inches experiment a bit with where you place the split shot so I'm going
to take about a six inch piece of tippet and I'm going to tie a surgeon's knot in my leader
it's another reason that I don't not wild about split shot because you have to add
an extra knot uh and extra knots can only cause you problems but
I don't know of a way to keep split shot from sliding no matter what kind you use without
putting a knot or a tippet ring in your leader so I'm going to tie this surgeon's knot in there
and then I've got you know maybe eight inches below there you're going to put your split shot
above this knot and that way it won't slide then another thing you can do is you can actually put
your split shot on one of these tag ends if you'd like that's fine too and then sometimes you get
hung up on the split shot and you pull on it and it'll come off they put a little knot in the end
put a little overhand knot in the end of this tippet you can put your split shot on there that
tends to tangle a bit more and putting it in line is less likely to give you tangle so I like to put
it in line right on the leader I'd advise you to start with the smallest split shot you think
you need because it's really easy to add another small one it's really tough to get this stuff off
you can sometimes pry it out with a with a knife or with your fingernail but there's no easy way
of getting split shot off and if you put too much on then you have to cut that knot Slide the split
shot off tie a new knot so start with a small one smart start with a small Wallace you think you're
going to need and let's see I think this one here this water is pretty deep so I'm going to start
with a kind of a medium sized one you do want to use a pair of corsets because this non-toxic split
shot is very hard if you use your teeth to crank down it you're gonna you're gonna crack a tube
eventually so what you do is you get your leader and you find the little slot in the split shot
and you just get it in that slot and then you crimp it tight
with your forceps and that'll slide down to the knot but it'll stay there
so we have a nice deep pool here and it's fairly short so I don't
have much time to get a drift to get the Flies down to the fish I
don't think one split shot is enough so now I'm going to add a second one
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it's also a good idea if you're adding more weight you need to get deeper probably to bring your
indicator a little bit higher up on your leader so that you can get more depth below the indicator
and a little bit of depth did it
thank you
oh it was fast so split shot avoid it when you can but there's some times to
get really deep into a tight pocket you need to put it on your leader [Music]
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