Fly Fishing

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

I have had some bad luck with sunglasses during the past years. First I lost my Orvis patroits somewhere at Carl Johnson park down Fort Myers way. Next I buy the same glasses while on sale at Mark's when one of the glasses fell out while at the beach, I had the luck that someone told me that the glas had dropped. The replacement set had the same trouble but this time the glass fell on the pavement. That did it so I keep away from Orvis glasses for the time being.

What glasses are good and decently priced?.
Maybe somebody could tell me what I should look for and what I should avoid.

jason-c · Posted: Tue 02/08/05 7:16 pm Post subject: Sunglasses

I would recommend Spy Optic. Spy has sport pieces that are made from polycarbonate lenses (will never crack) and they are interchangeable. They also have a ventilation sytem to help prevent fogging. I would suggest the Spy Meteor, Micro Scoop, HS Scoop or the Espada. Go for polarized lenses. You can order all of these products from Backcountry.com. Check out the link below.

http://search.backcountry.com/exec/?mv_session_id=iBmuKe8P&q=spy+sunglasses&Search.x=14&Search.y=18

jeremy · Location: Portland, Maine

yup - these glasses ROCK - the polarized are awesome - they are all i will ever wear.

joe-m · Posted: Wed 02/09/05 9:52 am Post subject:

Macel. Jason is correct I have a pair and love them you can change the lenses for the type of fishing you do.ie brown for back county blue for off shore fishing etc ..

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

I have booked the website and will probably get one pretty soon.
I could not find a local dealer for the Netherlands but a relative of mine is going to Oregon pretty soon so he could fetch me one.

It´s good that Jason mentioned the anti-fogging construction. I tend to sweat like the proverbial pig so fogging was a problem with the old glasses. Since they haven´t invented glasses with intergral heating yet that feature might come in handy.

Can anyone make a statement about glass lenses versus plastic ones ?

jason-c · Posted: Wed 02/09/05 10:45 am Post subject: Shades

Glass lenses do not scratch as easily as Polycarbonate. Not that Polycarbonate is easy to scratch in the first place. But glass can break. It is impossible to shatter Polycarbonate.

joe-m · Posted: Thu 02/10/05 2:22 pm Post subject:

Marcel, why not order on line or have jason pick you up a pair and mail them to you!! Or I can let me know

joe-m · Posted: Thu 02/10/05 2:22 pm Post subject:

This could be flies and fins e commerce Very Happy

Marcel_Karssies · Location: Enschede - The Netherlands

Well, I know an even better plan. I am going to order the glasses online, send them to an adress of my relatives contact in Oregon and let my relative take it back to the Netherlands. Then I can also ship various items from Cabela's to the same adress and the whole lot will be delivered to my door without duties and taxies !