Should it be a tyer or a tier??
It's one of those - you can inquire/enquire, but acknowledgement/acknowledgment can be found for each spelling among/amongst advisers/advisors. I'd say use your judgement/judgment.
Should it be a tyer or a tier??
Are you trying to tie your hook, on the bank, to the line on a spool of hooklength line? You can do, and grip the spool, as you say, between your knees - or wedge it anywhere convenient!
Myself, I tie the loop in the hooklength line on the spool, then cut off roughly what I want. Then I'll attach the hooklength, loop to loop, to the mainline, with no hook on. Only then do I tie the hook on the end, and then it becomes easy to hold/tension the line - you just pull, to whatever degree of tension, against the rod tip. I always find it's easier to get a good knot like this than when I'm trying to tie one on a short length with the spool jammed somewhere.
Thats exactly right Kev. I use the tension on the rod top. Its been working like that with my matchman hook tyers for donkeys years
Words don't matter,just learn to use the damn thing....
I can and have done for yonks.:wh