WAC Tac's Guide to Tying
Follow our simple step by step guide and all of your troubles will be over!
Tying a Crow’s Foot Connector
1. To tie a crow’s foot you first need to form a large loop in your elastic
2. Pass the end of the loop back through itself twice and moisten it
3. Tighten the knot gently moistening it if it need extra lubrication
4. Once tightened, the tag ends can then be cut, so you have got a tangle free knot
Using a Hook Tyer
1. Trap the hook in the hook tyer and loop the line over the silver arm
2. Make turns going down the shank and loop the tag over the gold pin
3. Push the silver arm down and pull the line to tighten the whipping
4. Trim the tag and you are left with a perfectly tied space-end hook
Tying a Knotless Knot
1. Using a bate needle make a small, neat overhead loop in the end of your hook length.
2. Thread the other end of your hook length through the eye of your hook from above.
3. Starting close to the eye, whip down the shank starting on the opposite side to where eye and hook shank are connected.
4. Whip down at least eight times.
5. Come back up the shank and thread the line down through the eye, towards the point.
6. Using your baiting needle, thread on your chosen bait.
Tying a Grinner
1. Thread your line through the hook eye.
2. Form a loop in the line.
3. Take the end through the loop four times.
4. Moisten and pull tight carefully.
5. Pull main line the knot will move to the hook.
6. Tidy and time close.
Tying a Spider Knot
1. Tie a double loop in the end of your elastic.
2. Trim the elastic knot to form three prongs. This is your ‘spider’.
3. Tie a two-inch double overhand loop in the end of your rig line.
4. Tie a half-inch loop in the end of the larger loop in your rig line.
5. Pull the rig line through the centre of the larger loop.
6. Pass the elastic through the new loop formed in the rig line.
7. Gently tighten the rig line so the knot sits neatly against the elastic ‘spider’.
8. Pull tight. To release, simply pull on the smaller loop.