Church walleye board flag assembly issue.

[JDF]

fortunate with this years mild weather to have been walleye Fishing Lake Erie out of Monroe.   Today had problem loosing connection with a board that has occurred several times.  The steel wire connected from the flag to the back clip becomes unattached at the flag.  L shaped end just comes out of the holee.  The clip and wire stay attached to the line while the board is left behind for a time consuming recovery drill.  Considering replacing the wire with thin wire cable with crimped loops at each end.  Anyone else have this problem? Other solutions?  Today for quick fix I removed the flag assembly and reattached the back clip directly to the steel eye at the back of the board.  the flag signal seems unreliable  anyway.