Do you really need special snips for fly fishing? (57 of 59)

01:03 to thread a fly. Whereas if you snip the end of your tippet, particularly if you 01:07 snip it at a little bit of an angle, it's a lot easier to thread your fly. 01:13 And also, you want to trim your knots close. For instance, if you have a blood, 01:19 you have a blood knot and you've got a couple ends that you've got to trim, 01:25 right? You don't want to leave a tag end with your knots because it's not going to 01:31 make the knot any stronger. Leaving a long tag end is not going to make the knot 01:35 any stronger. The other thing is with a blood knot or a surgeon's knot, if you 01:40 leave the tag ends just a little bit too long, it'll catch itself and you'll tangle 01:46 a lot easier. So you want to trim those tag ends very cleanly right tight to the 01:52 knot. Don't cut into the knot, but cut it very close to the knot. You don't have 01:56 to spend $80 for a pair of snips, but you do want to get a decent pair of nips. 02:01 You're going to use them every day, all day long. It's a tool you need for fly 02:05 fishing. 02:30 I don't know. Oh.