Hi, welcome to another episode. Today we're going to discuss how to attach your real line directly onto your mono shooting line. I'll show you how to tie this knot, a slip knot, which is very effective, very useful for using a reel on mono shooting line. This is how you tie them. There are two versions, you'll see those now. Okay, so how are we going to demonstrate how to connect the real line to the spear shooting line. Generally, guys use mono, that's crimp, sides of the loop up to you. Push the down end of through the loop, then wrap it twice around the main line. The tag end, fold it in half, push it through the loop, pull that tight. That's all it is, very simple. In the water to disconnect that, you tug on the tag end. If your hands are busy, you can use your teeth, pull on it, comes apart very easy and very easy to tie. This single line around the loop, Danima being much higher braze of resistance, can cut the mono. So for those who want to really make it stronger, the second option is to wrap the real line twice through the loop. To do that, we go through the mono loop twice. So now you've got twice the strands holding on the mono and then you do exactly the same knot. Twice around the main line, fold the tag end in half, push it through, pull it up tight. That will be a stronger grip, but the single one is just as adequate for your average dieting. But if you want to shoot really big fish, this is the one that you can use. If this loop is large, it is prone to hooking on something, all that will do is pull the tag end out, but it still stays connected. It may jam up too tight for you to undo, then you just cut it. So how we've set it up here, the Danima on the one side with our slip knot, one wrap around the mono. The mono we've wrapped at multiple times around the jig as well as the Danima. The reason for this is not as a weak point, we're trying to keep these end pieces stronger than the middle piece, where the knot is. So hopefully, it will go as well. This is where it will break, at least see how strong that is. Lines are still tensioning. Normally get around 70. Everything is still tensioning up on the jig. I have a crimp slipping. Here we go. That went to about 90. In this case, failure wasn't on the knot, it was on the crimp. As you can see, it stressed the mono, which sheared out of the crimp at around 90 odd kilos, which is pretty good. But the knot itself, although it slipped up tight, it didn't fall free. Pretty pointless doing a double wrap, but I will do the double wrap through the loop, and let's see how that one does. Okay, so how we set up again, same setup, everything is wrapped on the ends. Danima knot, double wrap this time around the main mono loop, and double around its main line as well. Let's see how good that one goes. At the stop there for a moment, it was actually unraveling off the shackle. Tired on not, let's see if that stops. Here we go. blouse Let's reach maximum, I'm going to pull it up, wrap it some more and do it again. We got to add something there without a breakage. Okay, we got to over 80 there with oddity breakage. There was a lot of slippage on the ends. The knot itself has actually maintained very well. You can see it's had a massive load at 80 already, which is way more than you ever going to be able to pull on it. But let's break it. Let me slipping there. Yeah, the knot actually came undone. Previous test, so this to be the stronger option with a double wrap. But yeah, there was clearly a slip. The possibility is the newer braid we're using has a higher wax content. So anything around 90 is plenty good enough. I would just stick with the single wrap. Well, there you have it. Now you know how to tie your dineema onto your mono. What we're going to experiment now with the third option is instead of wrapping twice around the mono, as you saw in the previous, we're going to wrap around, go all the way around and come back out. That'll create a figure of eight. Let me get it into position. So imagine that as a figure of eight. I think this will hold a lot better. Let's try the same knot and see if we get any slippage on that. So here now we have the third possible option. Figure of eight back weave through the loop. This mono has been fairly well-stressed already. And we've turned the same loop on the other side. Let's see how this one goes. Locking up quite well. And already a bit stronger. Over 100 is more than adequate. Well, nearly 110. So that loop back on itself so that the two loops interlock with each other, difficulty explain. After that break, we investigated the whole setup. And you can see how well that's not pulled up tight. The break wasn't at the knot, all the crimp. This time it was where it was wrapped around the jig. You can see how this is all frayed here. That's very impressive. I think this prevents the loop from slipping in the crimp. And this makes this actually way stronger than the straight mono. This mono is about 140 kgs direct pull. We got 110 odd, which is exceptionally good. That's very impressive. I'm going to continue using this knot, but with this new extra twist, basically the figure of eight. So the two loops interlock with each other seems to be the best option. You saw that over 100 kilos. So watch this space for more of these.