How To Use Marker Elastic

TRANSCRIPT - HOW TO USE MARKER ELASTIC

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Marker Elastic, now it's a forgotten art but it's one that can play a massive part in your angling, and I'm going to show you the knots and how to use this product effectively. Lets take a look at the knot.

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What you want to do is peel off a good 12 inches, give yourself plenty of elastic and then all we're doing is running

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the marker elastic alongside the mono or braid and then you want to be creating like a little

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loop, see your big loop there and then all I'm doing is creating that loop and then

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running this tag end into the loop, out the loop like so, five or six times. Now you can

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see the knot is starting to form, the key to this to get it butted up nice and neat

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to make the smallest knot possible is plenty of saliva so as you can see straight away

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it wants to form its knot. Plenty of saliva, plenty of saliva and you want that knot

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as small as possible that way it will run through the rings as smooth as can be. If you leave the

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knot big and bulky not only will the marker braid potentially move but like I say you're

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going to get a big bulky knot it won't go through the rings very well. So you literally

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use your fingers to butt the knot up, that's lovely, butt the knot up, butt the knot up

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and you should find you know that's not slipping now that's very very tight on there

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and we can nip these tag ends with pair of scissors but not too tight you know you want to

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leave your tag ends about an inch long or just under an inch and that will give you

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the perfect little marker knot. By placing the marker elastic right on the tip ring once I go

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for a recast I'll cast past the spot reel in, wait for the marker elastic to go through

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the rings, make a slight adjustment on my drag and clip up with the marker elastic

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right on the tip ring to get me back to the spot every single time.

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So where does marker elastic play its role in my angling? Well look it's simple, accuracy

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and speed. Once I've got my marker elastic in place I no longer have to go around the

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wrap sticks which saves me time and getting my rigs bang on the money you know bite

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times and windows can be very very small so if I've saved myself ten minutes a

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day that's potentially another fish on the bank. So yeah time and speed, marker elastic is king.