bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

What is the best sunglass color and lens treatment for sight fishing bass in lakes? What is the best for sight fishing trout in moving water?

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

I don't know about bass, but I use brown for trout. Polarized. I don't know if that's the best, I know It's better than black or grey, but that's as far as I've gone on the color spectrum.
Mornin bapa. How you this mornin?

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

Normal aches and pains, but mentally great. I just got the mounts and plugs to put electric Scotty downriggers on my Klamath. usually fish at 100 ft. for lake trout and king salmon. It is getting tough to bring those chunks of lead up numerous times a day by hand. Have a great day.

JackM Loc: North East Florida

I've used gray polarized glasses for decades. Should I try brown?

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

I think you'll find them better for looking into the water. Find yourself a cheap pair and give em a try. Make sure they're polarized.

Ronniejw Loc: West Point MS

Was always told brown for freshwater and grey blue for saltwater, have used that for over 50 years

lil mutt Loc: North Texas

I ware glasses and I like the brown flip-ups. Course, I only have one good eye, so I only see half as much as you guys.

Ben Bragg Loc: Dayton Ohio

I’ve always heard brown lenses
I have blue.

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Polarized Sunglasses: Do They Really Help You Fish?

Whenever I went fishing during my childhood, I always wore sunglasses mainly to look cool. Little did I realize I was developing a habit that would be saving my eyes for 50 years of fishing trips and hopefully many more to come.

While donning a cool-looking set of shades can improve an angler’s image, there are more critical reasons why anglers should wear sunglasses. The most important thing is protection because the most important piece of equipment you put in your boat is your eyesight.

Polarized Shades Keep You Safe:

Your fishing trip can turn into a nightmare if you pull a snagged lure out of a tree and it rockets back at you or if you turn around while your partner is casting with one of those 7-foot rods and his lure hits you in the face. If you are wearing sunglasses, the eyewear will help deflect hooks or sinkers away from your eyes and prevent a serious mishap that could lead to the loss of your precious sight.

Polarized Sunglasses Fend Harmful Rays:

Sunglasses also offer protection from harmful ultraviolet rays (UVA and UVB) and glare caused by sunlight. The same ultraviolet sun rays that cause your skin to burn and eventually lead to aging skin or cancer can also cause eye diseases, such as cataracts and macular degeneration (sunspots) on the retina of the eye. A harsh glare shining off the water can also lead to eye strain and fatigue.

How Polarized Sunglasses Changed The Game:

During my early years of fishing, I discovered a good pair of polarized sunglasses let me see trout in clear-water streams. The glasses cut down glare and gave me the chance to continually present my lures in front of the fish and eventually make them bite. Sight fishermen have taken advantage of polarized lenses for years to stalk their quarry.

Start Seeing More With Polarized Sunglasses:

If you wear polarized lenses you can eliminate most of the surface glare and it makes your vision more comfortable. A polarized lens serves as a light filter like a Venetian blind which only allows light from a certain direction to enter the eye. Since it allows light from only a certain direction, a polarized lens then eliminates glare or scattered light. Finding a pair of sunglasses with high polarization should be a priority for anglers. Most of the good sunglass companies are going to achieve maximum polarization but not total polarization with their fishing sunglasses. A rule of thumb for picking sunglasses with maximum polarization is the darker the lens tint, the more polarization it has. So the darkest tint will offer the best polarization in any color of lenses.

Does Lens Color Really Matter?

Lens color is an option anglers should consider when choosing polarized sunglasses. Most sunglass companies make several shades of tint. Tints enhance your performance by selectively filtering light rays. A gray lens filters all light colors equally so all hues look their natural shade. Dark gray lenses than are good for all-purpose sunglasses because these lenses eliminate glare best on bright sunny days and show true colors. Brown, green and yellow lenses serve specific functions for anglers. These tints are going to enhance some colors while they bleach other colors out. A sight angler wants a tint that will enhance the colors of bass but he wants to bleach out the surrounding colors, thus enhancing the contrast between the two.

Yellow heightens contrast, but that lens tint isn’t dark enough to provide maximum polarization. So yellow lenses work best for sight fishing in shallow water on dark, overcast days.

Polarized Glasses With Brown Lenses:

Amber or brown lenses are designed for overcast or hazy days and fog. These lenses offer high contrast but the lighter tint also loses polarization.
I have discovered a pure green tint is the ultimate color for sight fishing since it offers both high contrast and high polarization. The green tint almost matches the color of green in the bass’ back and enhances it. A green lens also filters out other colors such as tan or beige that you typically see on the nest and therefore enhances the bass’ image. Looking through a green lens almost gives you the feeling that you’ve taken a pencil and outlined the bass. It really makes the bass stand out.

Glass lenses provided the best optics years ago but when impact-resistant polycarbonate became available with polarization, poly-carbon lenses became the standard of fishing sunglasses.

You Get What You Pay For:

Buying a good pair of poly-carbon lens sunglasses costs more, but your eyes will benefit in the long run. So if you buy a pair of sunglasses for $9.95 you are going to get some lens distortion and when looking at objects at a distance your eyes have to constantly change focus to compensate for the distortion in the lenses. That’s how an inexpensive sunglass lens produces eye strain because you continually have to change your focusing in that lens. Quality optical lenses will not cause your eyes to alter focusing.



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If you're not there yet, chances are you will be someday. The day when the eyes on hooks get smaller, fishing line becomes thinner, and your arms aren't long enough to bring these items into focus. Ah, the joy of age-related farsightedness, what the eye care specialists call presbyopia.

Aids For Aging Eyes BPS Fish Eyes Bifocals

Bifocal sunglasses can help you see up close while also shielding your eyes from the sun.
I've dealt with this condition — albeit stubbornly initially — for a few years. Here are some tips you might find useful in your own personal effort to minimize the frustration.

Try a pair of bifocal sunglasses, such as the Bass Pro Shops Fish Eyes Bifocal Polarized Sunglasses. They have reading lenses built into the bottom. Everyone if different, but I had no trouble adjusting to them. I now wear them not only when fishing, but for driving too...so much easier to see those little icons that seem to be part of the dash display on all recent vehicles.

The next time you're in a dollar store, pick up a handful of cheap reading glasses. Then leave a pair in your boat, fishing vest, tackle box, vehicle, anywhere you might need them when on a fishing trip. As useful as the shades-with-readers are, they aren't much help when you're night fishing, or during dawn and dusk twilight periods.

Another option in the magnification category is the "clip-and-flip" type of magnifier that you attach to the bill of your fishing hat. It's been a few years since I've tried one of these devices. At first, I was pleased. In time, however, the mechanism that held the magnifier in the retracted position weakened, allowing the lens to gradually creep down. This was just one model, though. Other than that irritating fault, I liked it.

If you fly fish, or otherwise deal with small hooks (say, size 10 or smaller), consider giving a tippet threader a try. I picked up one, and love it. A magnet holds the fly/hook in place, and you simply push the tippet (or line) through a channel — which is lined up with the eyelet — and the fly is threaded. Pretty slick!


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Polarized sunglasses: Other considerations

Polarized sunglasses with progressive lenses are a great choice for people over age 40 who spend significant time outdoors.

And polarized sunglasses with photochromic lenses are a great choice for anyone who is frequently in and out of the sun on any given day.

And because polarized lenses reduce reflections from water, they significantly improve your ability to see objects below the surface of a lake, stream or the ocean (a great benefit for both fishing and boating ).

For the best comfort and performance with any polarized sunglasses, ask your eye care professional about having anti-reflective coating applied to the backside of the lenses. This will eliminate distracting reflections from the back surface of your sunglasses when the sun is behind you.

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Focus On polarization:

Not all polarized sunglasses are created equal. CITGO Bassmaster Classic Qualifier Ish Monroe demonstrated this to a friend when they fished a buddy-style tournament at Clear Lake, Calif. They were sight fishing when Monroe spotted a huge largemouth bass hovering over a bed 8 feet deep.

Juiced to the max, Monroe immediately began tossing baits to the bass. His partner asked him what he was casting to. Monroe's reply was incredulous: "Can't you see that fish?"

Though both anglers were wearing polarized sunglasses, Monroe's partner, squint as he might, could not see the bass. Monroe handed over his sunglasses. His partner donned them and saw the bass immediately.

"Almost all sunglasses have 100 percent UV protection, but not all polarized lenses have anything close to 100 percent polarization," says Monroe. "My buddy needed better sunglasses."

Polarization is a chemical process that aligns atoms, ions and particles horizontally on a thin film. This chemical Venetian blind blocks the harshest light, such as glare from the water that prevents you from seeing beneath the surface. Only good, ambient light reaches your eyes, which improves your vision and reduces eyestrain.

Iodine-based films exhibit excellent polarized efficiency. Usually, the tint of the lens is built into the polarizing film. Some sunglasses now deliver more than 95 percent polarized efficiency, which is what you want if you're serious about seeing what's beneath the water's surface.

Lens material:

The lens material can limit polarized efficiency and optical clarity. Injection-molded polycarbonate lenses are lightweight and impact resistant, but they attain no more than about 88 percent polarized efficiency. This is because polycarbonate destabilizes iodine-based polarized film by subjecting the film to extreme heat and pressure during the molding process. An inferior polarized film must be used to withstand these stresses.

Bent polarized sunglasses place polarized film between flat sheets of polycarbonate, which are then warmed and bent to the desired lens shape. This process can incorporate iodine-based film to achieve high polarized efficiency, but bent polycarbonate yields a low quality optical lens.

Polycarbonate sunglasses also scratch easily and contain impurities that undermine optical clarity. Industry insiders often refer to it as a "dirty lens material."

Though optical quality glass lenses are heavier and not as impact resistant as injection-molded plastic lenses, you can't beat them for scratch resistance, optical clarity, and polarized efficiency. It's no surprise that the top of the line sunglasses made by Costa Del Mar feature the company's exclusive WAVE 580 polarized glass.

"The WAVE 580 lens uses a combination of polarization and technology that allows the eye to take in more light," says Ed Moody, executive vice president of Costa Del Mar. "It raises the red, blue and green areas of the light spectrum while eliminating the strong presence of yellow light, which creates glare."

Plastic lenses that are cast in molds at low heat afford another excellent option because they may incorporate the same iodine-based polarized film used with glass lenses. Costa Del Mar offers sunglasses in CR-39, a plastic-lens material used to make lightweight, clear prescription glasses. Kaenon Polarized developed its own plastic-lens material, SR-91.

"SR-91 is neither glass, polycarbonate, nor CR-39, but a radically new polarized-lens material invented by our engineers," says Steve Rosenberg, president of Kaenon Polarized. "It combines the highest optical quality of the finest glass lenses with the lightness and strong impact resistance of the best polycarbonate lenses."

One reason high-end polarized sunglasses carry price tags that range from about $100 to well over $200 is that they require meticulous, high-tech manufacturing processes. The lenses typically include more than eight layers.

Lens tint and polarization:

There is no such thing as a clear polarized lens. Some type of tint is necessary to allow polarization to work, and darker tints achieve higher polarized efficiency.

Generally, any lens that transmits more than 28 percent of the light cannot reach 99 percent polarized efficiency, despite the hue. If you use a light lens tint, it will not cut through glare as well as a darker lens. Rosenberg claims that Kaenon is the first polarized brand to create lighter lens tints that allow up to 40 percent light transmission and still maintain high levels of polarized efficiency — 95 percent or more. Check with the manufacturer to verify the percentage of polarized efficiency with their various lens materials and tints.

For Your Eyes Only:

Texas bass pro Cody Bird got an eye-opener when he met with fellow members of the Skeeter pro staff for a photo shoot at Lake Fork. As the group gathered at the dock during a lunch break, they exchanged sunglasses for an impromptu testing session.



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Richey Loc: The Villages, Fl

My eye Dr said AMBER, (brown)

tuboshu Loc: Kennebunk, Maine

I like gray for sunny days, yellow for overcast. Polarized, of course.