04-07-2014, 03:23 AM
For fishing:
I never got used to the type that hook onto the visor of a ball cap. The ones that flip down. I had glass lens ones that just seemed heavy. So I tried the plastic lens ones but I soon had them scratched. Went through a couple pair of those. It's been 12 or more years since I have tried those.
I had ones that clip onto sun glasses and flip down. I liked those but they spring mechanism would break so they would not stay up then. When through 4 sets of those.
I settled on glass lens reading glasses. Very strong 4 X dioper glasses. I use them only for tying on flies and and tippet. Some times I just slip them into my breast pocket.
Other times I use a thin pliant Chums eye glass retainers (see the light blue ones on this page https://www.chums.com/category/tech). I hook one side to the eye glasses. The other side I tie to a button hole on my shirt or to a D-ring on my fly fishing vest. That obviously is to make sure that I do not loose the glasses. I have those for about 10 years now.
I have to always have regular reading glasses with me, also. For every thing else that needs reading or detail views - maps, computers, small screws, books. The list is endless.
For fly tying I use the same thing that Dryrod does - Opti-Visor.
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I never got used to the type that hook onto the visor of a ball cap. The ones that flip down. I had glass lens ones that just seemed heavy. So I tried the plastic lens ones but I soon had them scratched. Went through a couple pair of those. It's been 12 or more years since I have tried those.
I had ones that clip onto sun glasses and flip down. I liked those but they spring mechanism would break so they would not stay up then. When through 4 sets of those.
I settled on glass lens reading glasses. Very strong 4 X dioper glasses. I use them only for tying on flies and and tippet. Some times I just slip them into my breast pocket.
Other times I use a thin pliant Chums eye glass retainers (see the light blue ones on this page https://www.chums.com/category/tech). I hook one side to the eye glasses. The other side I tie to a button hole on my shirt or to a D-ring on my fly fishing vest. That obviously is to make sure that I do not loose the glasses. I have those for about 10 years now.
I have to always have regular reading glasses with me, also. For every thing else that needs reading or detail views - maps, computers, small screws, books. The list is endless.
For fly tying I use the same thing that Dryrod does - Opti-Visor.
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