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.
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!
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 
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.
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.
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.