Lanyard??

My question: How do you wear them? I'm referring to these
http://www.llbean.com/cd-15/46224/3948.shtml
Of course, the obvious assumption is that they hang around your neck
like a necklace, but the ones from LL Beans are a bit too small to
work this way: the gear ends up hanging up around the top button of
your shirt. But if they just clip to a pocket or something, that
doesn't seem right, either.

It seems like they just made the loop too small, but that doesn't seem
like LLBeans to sell something as unusable as that. Generally their
Quality Assurance team catches errors like that.

So before I go back and rethread them with extra parachute cord, has
anyone had any experience with lanyards and can give some info about
them? Is there more than one way to wear them?

--riverman

I make my own lanyards, with monofilament inside 1/4"
clear vinyl tubing....so the mono can break if you
snag yourself. I drill 1/4" holes in four champagne
corks and thread them onto the tubing, in between
big wooden beads and large wire clips (clips
come from a lure-supplies place, like Lakeland
in Minnesota).

Other online places sell retractable clips,
designed primarily for ski passes. They work
well for clippers and hemostats.

Flies go in a shirt pocket. Sometimes I use
a day pack--in addition to the lanyard--but I never use a vest.

"riverman" wrote

My question: How do you wear them? I'm referring to these
http://www.llbean.com/cd-15/46224/3948.shtml
Of course, the obvious assumption is that they hang around your neck
like a necklace,

I don't have that model, but I wear mine necklace style ... it has a little
clip that I attach to my shirt to keep it from flopping all over when I'm
walking or bending over. If you make yours longer, include a way to keep
this flopping from getting in your way. It's nice in hot weather, or for
long walks, but generally I prefer my 'fully stocked fly shop' ... i.e. vest
G

My lanyard has the cord overlapping in a spring loaded adjustment dealie ...
so that a strong pull would pull it apart. Such a breakaway feature is
important for safety, you don't want to dangle by the neck from a sweeper.

"riverman" wrote in message
...
My question: How do you wear them? I'm referring to these
http://www.llbean.com/cd-15/46224/3948.shtml
Of course, the obvious assumption is that they hang around your neck
like a necklace, but the ones from LL Beans are a bit too small to
work this way: the gear ends up hanging up around the top button of
your shirt. But if they just clip to a pocket or something, that
doesn't seem right, either.

It seems like they just made the loop too small, but that doesn't seem
like LLBeans to sell something as unusable as that. Generally their
Quality Assurance team catches errors like that.

So before I go back and rethread them with extra parachute cord, has
anyone had any experience with lanyards and can give some info about
them? Is there more than one way to wear them?

--riverman

Looks like there's a mistake on the parachute cord in the photo.
I've used a similar lanyard from Orvis that I got as a gift on two different
occasions, and both times I managed to tangle. Some anglers swear by them,
just don't work for me.
-tom

Tom Nakashima wrote:

Looks like there's a mistake on the parachute cord in the photo.
I've used a similar lanyard from Orvis that I got as a gift on two different
occasions, and both times I managed to tangle. Some anglers swear by them,
just don't work for me.

FWIW, living where it's too hot for a vest much of the year, I've
played around with making my own lanyards quite a bit. The best
solution I found was to buy the hollow, stretchy "craft lace", and braid
four strands of it together. This provides more stiffness than just
using para cord, so the lanyard tends to hang away from your body a bit
and tangle less.

I used wooden beads for spacers, and large swivel snaps for tool
holders. I played around with various methods of quick release
attachments, but wasn't really happy until I found some "cord locs" that
were the right size to hold the lanyard ends in a friction fit but
release when they are tugged sharply.

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.

The best part about them, IMHO, besides being cool, is that they
force you to travel light.


Chuck Vance (and that's also the *worst part about them)

"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
...
Tom Nakashima wrote:

Looks like there's a mistake on the parachute cord in the photo.
I've used a similar lanyard from Orvis that I got as a gift on two
different occasions, and both times I managed to tangle. Some anglers
swear by them, just don't work for me.

FWIW, living where it's too hot for a vest much of the year, I've
played around with making my own lanyards quite a bit. The best solution
I found was to buy the hollow, stretchy "craft lace", and braid four
strands of it together. This provides more stiffness than just using para
cord, so the lanyard tends to hang away from your body a bit and tangle
less.

I used wooden beads for spacers, and large swivel snaps for tool
holders. I played around with various methods of quick release
attachments, but wasn't really happy until I found some "cord locs" that
were the right size to hold the lanyard ends in a friction fit but release
when they are tugged sharply.

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.

The best part about them, IMHO, besides being cool, is that they force
you to travel light.


Chuck Vance (and that's also the *worst part about them)

I haven't tried a clip to the shirt method yet, might be worth a try.
thanks for the info on the homemade lanyard version.
-tom

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.

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)