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stopper
Stop Knot (Float Stop)
n/a — a stopper, not a load-bearing knot
mono
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A small knot tied with a separate short piece of line around your mainline. Slides under pressure but holds position — used to set the depth on a sliding float so the float stops at the right level.
When to use it
Essential for sliding float fishing — for pike, bream, deep stillwaters or wherever you need to fish deeper than the rod is long. Slip the knot up or down the line to change depth on the fly without re-rigging. A pre-tied "power-gum" stop knot is even faster than tying your own at the bank.
How to tie it
- Cut 4 inches of light mono or power-gum.
- Lay it alongside your mainline at the depth you want, with the tag ends sticking out each side.
- Form a loop with the stop-knot piece, then wrap one of its tag ends 5 times around BOTH the loop and the mainline.
- Pass that same tag end through the original loop and pull both tag ends gently to tighten the wraps against the mainline.
- Trim the tag ends to about 1 cm — long enough to wedge against the float top eye but short enough to pass through guides.