Cheap homemade lanyard for you fly fishers

I use a lightweight nylon fanny pack mostly because its too hot here for my shorty vest (and I hate toting a tackle box everywhere) but a lanyard is another portable option to hold your nippers, hemostat (foreceps), flybox, tippet, hook hone, zinger or retractor, and other gear. One downside to a lanyard is that it can be noisy. Click on link below :).

Make Your Own Lanyard

A word of caution about using the plastic lace, it might be fine in some hot weather conditions but it might also melt in really hot weather so I would substitute it for a small nylon cord as I've heard some folks use for a lanyard.

Thanks for the link. I think that would be a good material for a dedicated lanyard on my Fish Cat#4 float tube. I have used the cord materials before but somehow end up with a tiny hook imbedded in it.:( The small retractors/zingers I have tried seem to be of poor quality also.:( ) Thanks again, Mike

Hey Mike,

The plastic lace might be better for you than the nylon cord if you have hooks snagging lanyard material like nylon (a drawback to nylon) but if the beads are tightly packed on the nylon cord (no gaps), the chances of a hook working its way between the tightly packed beads should be pretty slim. The plastic lace might be a better way to go for you if the weather is not so hot that it melts the plastic. Best of luck.

Thanks as well. I been reading the stories etc on the home page.
I just grab a neck thing off the jewelry shelf at Wally World works till I lose it.

blufloyd, try the FAOL stories in the Panfish and Warm Water archive sections :). Links below:

Archive of Panfish

Archive of Warm Water

I been even emailed Rick.

Both Rick Z. and Joe H. are great guys. I e-mail them from time to time also, even got some flies Rick sent me and sent him some of mine :).

jinxed. mine is on the offical mia list now, gonna drive me crazier than before. o well.

see venting werks. found in less than 2 minutes after post.