On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:15:01 -0800 (PST), while-one
wrote:

On Jan 22, 8:50 am, Conan The Librarian wrote:
As Larry stated, you want something to attach the lanyard to your
clothing so it doesn't swing out into your way every time you lean over.
I used a mini carabiner on mine.

...ok, this is a good point. I first started wearing lanyards
when bonefishing....when vests are totally stupid.
But an exposed lanyard can be a disaster: maybe you've
been stalking the flats for hours and all of sudden you see it:
a V of ephemeral shadows coming your way from 300 feet off.
You strip out some line, false cast close to the water once
an then shoot out 70' of line, but oh **** oh dear, your
slack fly line just snagged your hemostats on the lanyard.
This trip cost 7 grand and.............

So I wear a good synthetic (breathable) undershirt
underneath everthing, with a nice LL-Bean or whoever
fishing shirt, with breathable arm pits and big chest pockets
on top, with the lanyard underneath my shirt.

Now I've got exactly what I wanted: everything close
at hand and no damn vest a no kind.

I second all of that - but my bone-feesh gear is simply lightweight quick-dry
fishing pants and a flats shirt with lots o' pockets (I have some Columbia
ones and some Patagonia ones). Nippers go on a retractable, everything else
goes in the multitude of pockets. No undershirt or lanyard required...

/daytripper (mmm....just thinking of flats fishing is warming me up)