whats loaded on yours??
post a pic!
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whats loaded on yours??
post a pic!
My camera. It's actually a furled lanyard I made specifically for that purpose.
My fly fishing gear either goes in shirt or shorts pockets or a chest pack which I can wear over the shoulder rather than around my neck.
John
Sorry, Normand, I gave up on lanyards a few years back and only carry my camera which is also attached to my wader suspenders. I attach everything to the exterior of my chest pack as I also gave up on vests around the same time I quit the lanyard.
I'm sure there are still plenty who use one, and I'm also interested in what people carry around their neck.
Kelly.
(I got into the minimalist mode by fishing with John Scott and my buddy Buzz)
I don't use a lanyard. I prefer a little canvas daypack when I go minimal.
Works fine on the little mountain streams I fish in the summer. Just roomy enough for all I need.
It would be interesting to see how others equip their lanyards though?
bobbyg
I tried one and didn't like it at all. My friend calls them hippie beads for fisherman. If they work for you, great. I would need a pair of forceps, line clippers and floatant as a bare minimum but those and more are in my vest or on zingers built into the vest. A good vest is a thing of beauty.
nippers, hemostat, whistle, and compass
....and plenty of hippie beads ;)
Nippers on a zinger, fly drying patch, & Gink.
I tried to use the tippet holder as well, but the tippet spools got in the way. I keep 'em in my pack. Hemostats are clipped to a loop on my shirt. Small fly boxes and stream thermometer in my shirt pockets. All else in the pack.
I took some old 14 weight fly line, spliced enough together to make a lanyard and have my nippers and hook file on it, nothing else. I only carry a fly box, tips, and tippet with when I fish so don't need much. Minimalist. Used to use zingers until one slipped out of my fingers shot back and snapped off causing me to lose my favorite nippers in the river. No more zingers after that.
nippers on a zinger, file, bottle of floatant, hemostats. and a clip to keep it from flopping around when I go to net a fish.
Eric
I don't use one. They look entirely too much like hippy chick jewelry for me.
I like lanyards to keep things handy. I use one all of the time in conjunction with a hip pack. My lanyard has a nippers, Gink, Frog's Fanny, split shot container, and strike putty.
Norm, I'd post a picture but I'm embarrassed with what I have on it.
Lanyard?
I carry a wicker creel!
I do have a couple of new fangled retracting pin on thingamabobs for my hemostats and a pair of small sizzors. They have shown to be kinda handy.
But I like my creel. ;)
Never put anything around your neck strong enough to strangle you. That includes lanyards, IMO.
If you use a break away system you will be fine. Most commercial made lanyards have one.Quote:
Originally Posted by DG
I made a couple but rarely use them. On those rare occassions, I carry nippers, hemos, and Dave's Bug Float. I too put a clip on the bottom to keep it from flopping around. And I don't worry about strangleing myself.
.Don't forget bandana's, camera straps, pullover jackets and sweatshirts.....Quote:
Originally Posted by DG
All evil ....just waiting their chance.....
:twisted:
I use a lanyard I made myself using beads made of antler and wood that I turned on my wood-turning lathe. I think it is kind of cool.
On the lanyard I have floatant, nppers, hemostat and a little pair of combination scissors and pliers (for mashing barbs).
Cord non-beaded lanyard w/floatant, hemostat, thermometer, 4 spools tippet, nippers, knot tying tool. Fly boxes in shirt pockets. Vest in cooler weather.
C'mon now. Speaking as an old hippie, I doubt that the women of that era would be attracted to spools of line and fly boxes as jewelry. Maybe the hemos, but for another purpose.
Anyway, from top left around I carry nippers and file on one clip, then a fly box, next is a tippet holder with 6 spools & a bottle of floatant hanging off the bottom, another fly box, then hemos, and then I added a clip for a little plastic box of shot.
It's hard to find little fly boxes with a clip hole. Anyone got a source for such a beast?
My lanyard consists entirely of a 2-3 foot piece of nylon lobsterpot net material (about 2 cents worth), no beads, no clips, and no cloth/foam padding. Hanging from it you will find forceps, a nipper, a hook sharpener, dry fly paste, 5 spools of tippet and an EXTRA CAR KEY. I've removed a fly drying patch (my shirt works better), a leader straightener and a therometer over the years. I use the lanyard primarily for lake fishing when I'm walking the shore and have one small box of flies in my shirt pocket. I have five spools of tippet because I may be fishing any one of six rods from a one weight to a nine weight. The lanyard is cheap, light and surprisingly comfortable. I've used it for years. 8T :)
I made one several years ago with magnetic clips to hold it closed because I was sure it would strangle me climbing through bush to the streams. Actually it was pulled off once by a branch, so the magnets worked.
I only use it for trout streams and eventually learned that everything on it worked better if they were on a zinger. I have 4 small zingers on the lanyard to which are attached:
tie-fast nippers
hemostat
spool of tippet
small foam square to hold flies
I only take one or two small boxes of flies to any stream and carry them with other miscellaneous things (flotant, split shot, different size tippet, etc) in a waterproof fanny pack.
Try drilling two little holes in the corner, one on each side.Quote:
Originally Posted by raw69
The only reason I wear a lanyard is that out here we have to display our licenses.
I've had too many hats blown away and I don't ever wear a vest and only occasionally wear waders. So the lanyard seemed the best way to go, since I rarely leave the house without my neck & head.
My lanyard is made from three sections of macramed Cortland 555 WF-5-F, which seems to be the best use for that line.
Best, Dave
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[QUOTE=raw69;310768]Maybe the hemos, but for another purpose.
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Hilarious!
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Originally Posted by raw69
Funny you should mention that. The first hemos I ever had I got from an Army company commander in Germany who'd confiscated them from a soldier who used them as a roach clip. I scrubbed hell out of them but was still scared that danged dope dog would smell them when I was going thru customs on my way home.
One year on opening day I ran into some brothers of the angle partying streamside.
They invited me over to join them because they could see I carried my own roachclip :p
Guess they never saw hemos clipped to a trout vest before
See if you can find a smaller Perrine fly box. I have a Perrine Model 68 (plastic clips inside both sides), that's an all aluminum box with plastic inserts and a tiny plastic post on top with a little hole through it, designed to tie a loop of mono through it to be attached to...whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by raw69
Found mine at a local bait shop which, due to the nature of the business, couldnt seem to sell the thing. Snapped it up for $3.;)
My lanyard carries a nipper with an eye cleaning feature, a bottle of fly floatant, hemostat on a zinger, a device for threading tippet through fly eyes and a small Swiss army knife with blade and scissors.
Previously, I was using a Cabela's chest vest, but switched to the lanyard and waist pack last season to get weight off my shoulders. I still haven't made up my mind if I like it or not.
I have a sort of chestpack/lanyard hybrid called a pouch lanyard. Besides the nippers, forceps, floatant, and a small square of shamwow for drying flies, there's a pouch just big enough for a fly box, spare leader and a spool of tippett. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of it at the moment.
Yep, mine does.Quote:
Originally Posted by terry13111
Not that I worry about such things. I would be more worried about bonking my head on a submerged rock if I were to take a tumble than I would about something entangling my lanyard. Or worse yet, having a Grizzly attack while I am too intent upon fishing.
Hippy Chick Jewelry? Well, maybe. I must have a fondness for Hippy Chicks because I like the wooden beads on mine.
when i first arrived here in the fly fishing mecca of the desert southwest last october, one of the half-dozen or so fellow fly anglers in this metro area of 2 million or so people presented me with one of his handmade lanyards as a welcome gift. it has a southwestern jewelry theme w/real turquoise, bone, and wood indian-style beads. it had a velcro break-away closure that i promptly glued shut with goop the first time i wore it.
i never thought i would like a fishing lanyard, but i love it. i've evolved over the years from vest to chest pack, big chest pack to small, small chest pack to fanny pack, and now fanny pack plus lanyard. the fanny pack w/lanyard is definitely the ideal solution for me. the neuropathy in my neck, shoulders, and arms is aggravated by vests and most chest packs after a few hours of fishing. thus, the fanny pack is ideal. but having to get in/out of a fanny pack frequently is a real hassle that i was not satisfied with. i got the lanyard out and started using it for kayak fishing. and when i realized i liked it, i decided the fanny pack and lanyard would be a good combo.
i carry knot tool, hook file, forceps, ir stream thermometer, nippers, floatant, and small miracle cloth on mine.