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.
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…
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?