Splice dacron for fishing and also make a safety lanyard for your sunglasses!
Learning to splice dacron is a skill most regularly used by big game anglers but it can also be used to make a safety lanyard and never lose your sunglasses again.
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen sunglasses and other objects disappear into the depths after falling over the side.
Sure you can buy ready made ones at the servo, but they are either bulky and hurt your ears, or the little rubber ends stretch and fall off.
In my marlin fishing days, not only did we splice dacron for rigging, but we also used it to make lanyards for our sunglasses as the same technique can be used for both.
Back in the day I used to splice dacron for big game fishing (yes that’s me on the left). Now I mostly use it to make lanyards.
Splice dacron to make your sunglasses lanyard and never lose your sunnies again!
For this demo I’m using tonic sunglasses as they have ready made holes and are my sunglasses of choice at the moment. They are so light and great for seeing bait in the water in the shallows.
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Now I realise not everyone goes marlin fishing and thus may not have a roll of 130lb dacron lying around.
But you can purchase small rolls of 80lb dacron used as fly fishing backing for around $15 from specialist tackle shops like Fishing Warehouse in Townsville.
To splice dacron you’ll need to make yourself a tool from single strand stainless wire.
If you are going to use 130lb dacron I suggest 80lb wire, although if you’re using 80lb dacron, you’ll need to come down to 50lb wire or thereabouts.
The step by step technique to splice dacron including how to make the splicing tool is outlined in the video below.
Easy Anchor Retrieval using a float.
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Ryan Moody started his fishing career on the reef boats before catching bucket list marlin for the likes of champion heavy tackle angler Johnno Johnson, INXS and the King of Sweden. Branching out in the late 80's to guided barramundi fishing, Ryan has made a name for himself as a Big Barramundi specialist and to date has put clients onto over 2000 metre plus barra. That is over 2 kilometres of metre plus barra! With attitudes changing from 'keep all you can' towards catch and release, Ryan has decided to share his extensive knowledge and hopefully inspire people of all ages to get out from behind the computer screen/TV and into the fishing outdoors lifestyle he has spent his life perfecting.
Not as yet Noel but we will add it to the list of ones to make. Thanks for the suggestion.