How To Tie A Perfection Loop

Creating a perfection loop. The perfection loop is a great knot. It'll align straight.

In other words, it doesn't kink off at an angle, and that's very useful when you're trying to create a loop at the end of your leader. First loop, away from yourself, back into the line and pinch. Second loop, wrap it around the whole thing, pinch it again and make it a little bit smaller, so we've got two loops.

Now, the tag end needs to go in between the two and be pinched there. Now that our tag end is pinched, the knot is nearly complete. We pass the second loop through the first loop and pull tight.

Now, I could just let go and pull tight here, and it might work out, but I always like to try and hold on to it as long as I can to get the knot to configure correctly, and then as it tightens up, there's the knot, and we have a loop knot which goes off square. And then we trim the tag, and that's the knot completed. It's a very easy knot, it's a small knot, doesn't take too much time, but it's worth learning.

Diagrams don't give it justice; it's an easy knot to learn. Now, once we have that, that leader loop is going to align nice and straight. It's the same with monofilament.

When we've got any kinks, we get bad presentation from that, but what we also get with this is a very, very strong knot. It can be used to tie on a fly, it can be used to tie hooks, but more often, it's just used to create a loop and that's useful in many forms of ringing, very useful towards fly fishing. .