2. To start the braid, wrap the tag end back around the main line and then back between the strands of the double loop, securing the connection point very tightly. This essentially forms three strands coming down from the connection (two strands of the loop, plus the tag end).
This knot is a Portuguese big game knot called AÇORIANO KNOT used in sportfishing game in Algarve-Portugal more than 15 years ago and other vertion in Azores Islands more than 100 years ago.Sure in not an Australian knot.
Is also published some sporfishing magazine articles with the Açoriano knot some 10 years ago.