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Terry the Trout

Brown Trout · Salmo trutta

The classroom for this fish. Use the Trip Planner when you want a mark for today.

Line

Thin and honest. 6–8 lb fluoro or copolymer to the lure. 4 lb if the water is gin clear and the fish are educated.

Spooling

Fill to about 2 mm below the lip. Light line twists — a small swivel 18 inches above a spinner saves the day.

Animation: respooling a spinning reel. Bail open, thread the rings, tie on with an arbor knot shown close up, close the bail, filler spool in a bucket of water, reel on under light tension to just under the lip, then bed it in.

To the lure

Animation: tying a uni knot. Through the eye, make a loop, five wraps round both lines through the loop, wet it, slide it down and trim.

Tie a uni knot straight to the lure, 5 wraps — no giant clips. Check it after every snag; light fluoro nicks.

Grok

Ask about Terry

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