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Location: Minnesota | Ok, I'm 47. I failed my eye test at work. So if i don't see i don't work. Went to the eye DR. Good news is i passed but he showed me what i have been missing.So for those that wear glasses, what do you do, get polarized clip on or whats the best for fishing?
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I have worn glasses since I was in 4th grade. Never an issue. I use $10 polarized clip on sunglasses bought at a big box store, and they are very nice. |
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Location: NE Wisconsin | I also have worn glasses since grade school. I have polarized presciption bifocals, in wrap around Nike frames. They work great. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | I gotta suggest getting contacts if that is an option. Been wearing them for 12 years. Had glasses one year and haven't touched them since I upgraded to contacts. |
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | I never wore glasses till I hit my 50's I can see what ever I have always seen ( 20/20 ) but my eye len's don't focus in anymore, hence the glass's. I use clip ons just like Sworral |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya,
Depending on where you get your prescription glasses from, you could purchase a pair of prescription polarized glasses in your choice of frame. Then, when you go fishing, you just put on your polarized and you are good to go...
The other option...Granny Goggles... 
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| Aren't those also called Blue Blockers?
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| Oakley makes prescription sunglasses:
http://www.oakley.com/search/men+prescription+sunglasses |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | Solar Bat glasses also make prescription glasses...these sun glasses are made one at time, here in the USA. They are made and owned by not only an optometrist but also a serious fisherman. Check out http://www.solarbat.com These are the glasses I wear over 230 days a year on the water. |
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| ocean waves makes them to, awesome glasses, backwater green |
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Location: oswego, il | I felt old when I became as old as my grandfather was when I was born. Now I feel especially old as I am now as old as Steve Worrall when he started this website. Do they make fishoflage canes? |
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Location: West Chester, OH | I have Maui Jims made w/my bi-focal prescription. Comfortable, good coverage, high quality.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Getting Old really Sucks !
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | it ain't no fun either |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | Left elbow, left shoulder...not good to get old. |
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| http://www.cocoonseyewear.com/sunwear/ |
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| I have prescription polarized glasses and they are awesome. For a few years I just wore cheapie polarized glasses over my regular glasses and that was annoying. I am so so so glad I finally broke down and bought the prescription ones! |
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| Everybody has their favorites, I like Smith and Costa Del Mar the best. In fact I just purchased new versions of both this year as the dioptor for me has now gone past 2.25. No question that buying the higher price lens with the added nick for the bi-focal gets totally pricey--but still worth it. When you can see farther down into the water coulumn, not have to change glasses to tie your knots, and not have to suffer the added shame of looking like the "old folks," I believe it is well worth the money. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | I got Lasik. One near vision eye (for tying knots, reading, and such) and one distance vision eye. They do your dominant eye as the distance vision. Your brain learns to ignore the fuzzier of the 2 signals and you retain binocular vision. Any old polarized sunglasses then work fine.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | problem i've found with Rx lenses that wrap is distortion. i got a pair and it was hard getting used to them. the year i forced myself i was happier than i was without tho so went with it.
this year i finally solved it ... so dumped the jingle for the big-screens and fish with conventional glasses. big enough screens take away the need at least for now.
if your need is like mine ... to see your graphs ... from experience the best thing to do is just buy the big, expensive electronics |
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Location: West Haven, UT | I opted for the grandpa goggles. If you are going to go this route, the following items are a must; Porn stache, wolfshirt and a nice musky hat. Be careful with this look!
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Location: Davenport, IA | I used clip-ons for a long time and they were ok until I got a faster boat that caused my eyes to water to the point everything was a blur. I now have prescription Maui Jims and also contacts that allow me to wear whatever sunglasses I want. |
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Location: Lakeville, MN | my old man just got a new pair of glasses with clip on sun shades, they look good. he just looses the clip ons all the time. |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Prescription glasses for me. I have been wearing glasses since the 5th grade. |
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Location: Savage, MN | My doc set me up with two pairs of prescription Bolle glasses with polarized lenses, one in dark tint and another with amber. Super light and comfortable.
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Location: Elgin, IL | I finally went with a nice pair of prescription sunglasses this season and I can't say enough about them. My doc suggested a pair by Columbia. Perfect. With the bifocal part shaded right in there.
Sled, I'm wondering when we will be able to use a Samsung 42" HD on the bow syncd up with the console unit? in my case a HBird 858DI. ?
How cool would that be? I may need it soon. 
muskyhunter47, just hope that other more important items keep working as you get older, glasses are a piece of cake......not that it's happened to me though.
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Location: Minnesota | i bought a new pair of coatas this spring i broke a lens. i was going to send them in to be fixed Just for kicks i brought them with me when i went looking for glasses.they said they could put my perescription in thoses glasses whitch was great becauce they fit my face well.they said it would take abought 10 days. |
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| Yea getting older is a beach!! I use my glasses for reading and working on line (fishing line too). My problem is my hands (arthritis). Cold is really bad, but if my hands get wet in cold, warm or hot weather, they cramp up real bad. The only way I can straighten them out is to sit on them. Haven't found a really good pair of glove to keep them warm and fish with. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | You are only as old as you allow your self to act. Never give in to a number!
I knew people who were "old" acting when they were 30!
Live everyday to its fullest, as if it will be your last!
At 58 I still don't need glasses to see, I wear quality polarized sunglasses all the time, all year, sunny, cloudy, all the time.
An eye doctor had told me that my sunglass use likely goes a long way towards my eye sight today.
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Location: Tennessee | I'd strongly sugges lasik. I had glasses for a few years, then was old enough for contacts. wore them for years but got to where I couldnt stand them in my eyes and had to go back to glasses. They drove me insane hunting with fogging up wearing any kind of face covering and I started checking around. $3000 later I had lasik done and see 20/15 which is great because Army BCGs are the most retarded looking(although useful) eye wear one could ever hope not to see. |
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