[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-glossary-blood-knot":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"aliases":6,"body":9,"category":26,"definitionShort":27,"description":15,"disciplineTags":28,"extension":30,"meta":31,"navigation":32,"path":33,"relatedCards":34,"relatedTerms":35,"seo":40,"sourceRef":41,"stem":42,"term":5,"__hash__":43},"learn_glossary\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fblood-knot.md","Blood Knot",[7,8],"Blood knots","Barrel knot",{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":22},"minimark",[12,16,19],[13,14,15],"p",{},"The Blood Knot makes a thinner, neater connection than a Surgeon's Knot — important if your leader is going to ride through the rod tip during casts (a Surgeon's bumps audibly through guides; a Blood Knot glides).",[13,17,18],{},"Wrap each tag end 5 times around the standing line of the other piece, then thread the tags through the central X formed where the lines cross. Wet, pull all four ends slowly until it seats.",[13,20,21],{},"The downside: harder to tie cold-fingered in the wind. Most anglers use Blood Knots for at-home leader construction, Surgeon's Knots for stream-side tippet refresh.",{"title":23,"searchDepth":24,"depth":24,"links":25},"",2,[],"knot","A streamlined knot joining two pieces of similar-diameter line. Used to build tapered leaders or splice tippet sections without the bulk of a Surgeon's Knot.",[29],"fly","md",{},true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fblood-knot",[],[36,37,38,39],"tippet","leader","tag-end","surgeons-knot",{"description":15},null,"learn\u002Fglossary\u002Fblood-knot","n3p4RlhiecWXaK5CwqMZsze9qTXr15stWSZXHSUGD10"]