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Shout Fishermen's Tool: Shout Bobbin Knoter and PR Knot

Hey fishing kakis, i recently borrowed a Bobbin from Jamie. It's from Shout Fishermen's tools. It's to help me master the PR knot but somehow i forgotten how to tie the knot again... Looks like i have to go visit Alan Chan again... Hahaha...

Shout Bobbin Knoter... If im not wrong this is the cheaper one at $180... There's a $300 one by Shout too lol


Reason for learning the knot is that it's a widely used knot in big game fishing... I will definitely need to use this knot often in the future...

Here's how to tie the PR knot with a bobbin lol..

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