Furling Mono for Hooks:

This proccess can take you eye out so be warned. These instructions are acompanied by a picture below.

  1. First take your hook and thread (about 1.5' of 20#) the tag end back wards throught the eye bring the loop it creates under the shank and pull through, if doen right you will have a loop-to-loop connection
  2. Place one tag end into you vise (must be a rotary vise) and hold the other with your fingers, a pair of pliers or anothers vise thacan be move easy (e.g. vise on pedastal).
  3. While holding tight put about forty twist into it. this will be enough that when slack is put into the line it will start to twist but not freak out. I suggest guide the hook for the next part
  4. With the twist in it slowly move you hand toward the vise while guiding the hook it shoul being to spin and furl the to lines together, you only about three twist at this point just enough that you have made a guide for the rest of the proccess.
  5. Now watch out and start twist and slowly bring you hand towards the vise. You can mostly feel when it needs a little slack. You are looking for tight wist that will make a stiffer line. Just let the hook flop around. After doing this a couple times you will have it down.
  6. Just tie a over hand knot right at the last twist.

Please don't mind the bad animation, its just a tool to get the words to make sense. now that you have a furled mono & hook you need a way to connect it to a pattern.

These are two of the ways:

String Leech setup above, Tandem hook setup below