Fish stringer

Price in Morocco

Mid-range Beuchat · at Technic Plongée Pro 86 to 162 MAD

Prices read on 17 October 2026 from Moroccan online shops. Brands named are examples seen for sale, not a recommendation, and prices change: check before you buy. For second-hand, also look on Avito and in spearfishing groups.

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01 What it is for

A stringer holds the fish you have taken. A stainless needle at one end is threaded through the gills and out of the mouth, the fish slides down the cord, and the loop at the other end clips to the float. The catch stays in the water, cool and out of the way, and away from your body.

Hanging fish from the weight belt, which beginners do, puts a bleeding fish against your leg for the rest of the session. On most of the Moroccan coast that is merely unpleasant and bad for the fish; on a few days a year it is an invitation.

02 What to look for

What matters:

The needle: stainless, long enough to push through a big fish's gill arch, with a rounded tip that goes through gills and does not go through your glove.
The cord: 1 to 1.5 m of stiff nylon or a coated wire. Stiff cord lets the fish slide down and does not tangle; soft cord knots up.
The clip: a stainless snap that closes positively on the float's D-ring and opens with a gloved hand.
A quick-release at the float, so that the whole catch can be dropped or handed over in one movement.

Some stringers use a sliding lock instead of a needle, which keeps the fish from sliding back up the cord. Useful with several small fish; slower with one big one.

03 Fit and sizing

One stringer per float. 1 to 1.5 m of cord; longer drags in the water and catches the float line.

04 Care

Rinse the needle and the clip, and check the crimp where the cord meets the needle: it is where stringers fail, with the catch.

Common mistakes

01 Fish on the belt. A bleeding fish against your leg all afternoon.
02 A blunt needle. It will not go through a gill arch and it will go through a glove.
03 Threading through the mouth and gills the wrong way. In through the gill, out of the mouth; the fish slides down and stays.

Safety

Dispatch the fish before it goes on the stringer. A live fish on a stringer suffers, bleeds more, and thrashes against the float. And a stringer of fish is never attached to the diver in open water.

What to compare

Needle: stainless, rounded tip.
Cord: 1 to 1.5 m, stiff nylon or coated wire.
Clip: stainless snap, one-hand.
Attachment: the float, never the belt.

Goes with

This is general guidance for the Moroccan coast, written for divers who hunt here. No brand is recommended and nothing on this page is paid for. If you know better, correct us.