Hi
Just seen this thread as I'm re-thinking my stringer, having lost the actual spike off the line the other day. The strange thing was, the loop it was tied on was still intact ... I can only think that the hole had rusted through, but unlikely as the spike was a shop bought Beuchat stainless one.
I favour Old Man Dave's method, which he recommended to me, i.e. strong nylon cord tied around your back and the stringer passes through a metal shackle on the front of your belt. We don't have sharks here ( well ... not usually!) and I personally do a lot of stealthing through kelp beds for bass, often leaving my float anchored nearby ( I've got a weight attached to the line, near the point it clips on to another shackle at the back of my belt).
I haven't yet been in the fortunate position of having loads of big fish on my stringer
but if I did, I also carry a catch bag strapped to my float which they could go in.
Any thoughts on how best to rig this with nylon thread, instead of mono, would be appreciated. The advantage of mono ( as with some stringers ready made you can buy, e.g. Omer) is that you can use crimps and loops, which I assume pass more easily through the fish than knots in nylon line - especially my knots as I'm crap at them!
