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Fly Lanyard and Sundries
How many guys use a lanyard and what do you keep on them?
I'm trying to get an idea of what I need on mine. How many connectors or attachment
points do you have on yours would you like more or less than what you have right now?
I'm designing a new lanyard and I need some feedback before I start.
Thanks
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I've been using a lanyard for a couple of years now, but I still have not decided if I like doing that.
It has a small Swiss Army knife with sharp scissors, a magnetic fly threader, a clip to hold it to my shirt, forceps on a zinger, a holder for a bottle of floatant and a nipper on a zinger. I don't have a need for any more attachments, but your mileage may vary.
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I guess I use one. I have spliced a piece of 14 wt. double taper spey line into a "lanyard" with nippers and a hook file on it. I don't need much stuff when I fish. Along with the "lanyard" I carry a box of flies, a spool of tippet, and a tip wallet. Nothing more. Why would you need more?
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heres mine home made i keep my tippit, gink, nippers, small flybox, magnifier, forcips, nail knotter, line cleanser ans leader straightener,
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Mine is a commercial Mayfly product, which has a tab of leather in addition to the clips. The leather is great for attaching my forceps. On the clips are floatant, nippers, line straightener/fly drier and whistle. (I can’t understand people who go into a river out in a tube without a whistle). At the bottom there is a clip to attach the lanyard to my shirt so that it doesn't swing into the way, and there I have also attached a split ring to affix a small magnet fly drying box.
In my pockets I have the small fly box for the evening, and both 3x and 5x tippet for rebuilding leaders.
I would also add for those making their own - I think the commercial ones with the break-away joints are a good idea. I doubt I will ever fall in a river AND be swept toward a banch that catches the lanyard, but why make that a concern at all. The break-away joints (one on each side) are made like this: get two sections if surgical or aquarium tubing about 3" long (or so).
Create the lanyard so the 'bead/tool' part is not the same piece of string as the 'neck' part. Put a knot at each of the 4 string ends. Connect the 'neck' part to the 'tool' part by jamming the knots into the tubing (on each side) until they hold. If you are ever snagged, the knots should yank out of the tubing - you lose the lanyard and hopefully nothing else.
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I use a lanyard and find that it helps to keep the frequently used rigging stuff close at hand. Mine has:
-- nippers and a safety pin
-- tin shot and tungsten putty
-- fly grease and powder
Everything else is in / on a hip pack that's normally swung around to my back.
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I have a love/hate relationship with these things. I love the concept and bought one back in the early 90's and have made a couple since. Mine has a leather leader straightener that I epoxied a clip on the back to hold it to my shirt or jacket. I only use mine when I use a fanny pack and am fishing dry flys. On it I carry a samadou patch, a container of fly powder, fly floatant and a container of line leader floatant. I may clip my nipper zinger to it, but still prefer to just clip my forceps to my shirt pocket flap. What I hate is having all that stuff hanging down which always seems to get in the way. I also put two wine bottle corks on it for drying flys but since I bought a Finsport Fly Keeper I don't use them anymore.
Dave
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A good friend in AZ made me one, he used a leather string which did not last that long, I replaced it with a boot lace. I hardly ever wear a vest and keep my boxes in the pockets of my tube. The rare occasion that I wade I usually drop a couple of boxes in the top of my waders. I have floatant and Gink, a piece of chamois for drying flies, scissors, leader material (3 spools) fly drier powder (which is redundant). To keep it from getting in the way, I keep it inside my waders until I need it but my friend included a clip at the bottom so it can be clipped to my shirt. I love mine. Thanks Cameron.
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Am a big fan of my lanyard. I bought it but it's on the low end of the price scale. It holds nipper, tab of chamois to dry flies and hold forceps, clip so can clip it to shirt (keeps the lanyard in place when I bend over), tippet mtl, floatant bottle, drying powder, little fabric piece to wipe off glasses, line/leader straightener. I'm going to add a whistle now b/c of Greg's post. Critical feature for me is that the lanyard break apart if pulled on hard enough. Not interested in death by hanging... Threw the vest away and have almost exclusively fished with lanyard for about 15 years. Found that I filled it up with stuff I never used simply b/c it had room for it. Then wondered why my shoulders hurt at end of day.... Carried a couple heavier things (scissors, small flybox) on the lanyard early on but they either made the lanyard unbalanced or they strained my neck. The Simms G3's along with a fishing shirt hold all the other gear, generally speaking.
Grassman
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No offense to anyone but I tried using a lanyard and I realized I can't stand having that danglely-tanglely thing hanging off of me