FlyFishing
Oakley Beginner
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Hey everyone. I suppose I'll double this post with a quick intro.
New to forums here. Have never owned a pair of Oakley's.
For 5 1/2 months out of the year I spend my summers in Alaska where I work as a remote country fly fishing guide. At home in the Buffalo, NY area during the fall/ winter months I work for a friend of mine who owns a construction company building houses and work part time on the weekends guiding Lake Erie/Ontario streams for Steelhead.
Plainly put I spend on average a minimum of 200+ days on the water guiding fishing trips on rivers.
I've tried Orvis glasses, Maui Jim glasses and Costa Del Mar's. I gave up the 20$ fishing glasses back in my teens. Some of the aforementioned shades have done me very well and others have plain been wastes of cash that I've given away to clients.
For some reason I've never considered Oakley's. So as I sit here counting down the next 20 tays until I head back out to the great north I decided to check out my local Oakley store.
The guy that attended to me was very knowledgable and extremely patient when it came do dealing with me. I tried every polarized lens they had in stock in as many frames as I could. I had the guy going back and forth between taking me outside with different combo's to test them in the out of door lighting rather than in store.
As far as frames go I've decided on the Bottle Rocket's. They felt absolutely perfect on my face. As far as lens's go I've settled on Polarized Bronze and VR28 Black Iridium Polarized.
When looking at the frames I was pretty annoyed that the polished black finish was not available with the VR28 lens because the stock option is just the Black Iridium Lens, not the VR28. In my testing today I preferred the VR28. The stock frame for the VR28 has silver sparkles in it. Anyway whatever no big deal. Come to find they make a Brown Smoke frame which come stock with the Bronze Polarized. Perfect. I'll just buy the VR28's as a replacement lens.
Has anyone had on water experience with these lens's. More specifically fishing in creeks that will have both shallow and deep water as well as all sorts of under structure? I'll drop the cash on the glasses with no worries but I'd really like to hear, if possible, some first hand responses of these exact lens's in a stream fishing specific use.
As a side note, do the Oakley cases they sell come equipped with some sort of compartment or something to store extra lens's? And if so how many extra lens's will they safely hold?
Sorry for the long post. It was not my original intention to have you reading some long winded rambling of mine but that's the way it worked out. So is life. If you've managed to hold on, and have experience with these lens's I'd really love to hear what you have to say. I'd greatly appreciate it.
Take care!
- Tony -
New to forums here. Have never owned a pair of Oakley's.
For 5 1/2 months out of the year I spend my summers in Alaska where I work as a remote country fly fishing guide. At home in the Buffalo, NY area during the fall/ winter months I work for a friend of mine who owns a construction company building houses and work part time on the weekends guiding Lake Erie/Ontario streams for Steelhead.
Plainly put I spend on average a minimum of 200+ days on the water guiding fishing trips on rivers.
I've tried Orvis glasses, Maui Jim glasses and Costa Del Mar's. I gave up the 20$ fishing glasses back in my teens. Some of the aforementioned shades have done me very well and others have plain been wastes of cash that I've given away to clients.
For some reason I've never considered Oakley's. So as I sit here counting down the next 20 tays until I head back out to the great north I decided to check out my local Oakley store.
The guy that attended to me was very knowledgable and extremely patient when it came do dealing with me. I tried every polarized lens they had in stock in as many frames as I could. I had the guy going back and forth between taking me outside with different combo's to test them in the out of door lighting rather than in store.
As far as frames go I've decided on the Bottle Rocket's. They felt absolutely perfect on my face. As far as lens's go I've settled on Polarized Bronze and VR28 Black Iridium Polarized.
When looking at the frames I was pretty annoyed that the polished black finish was not available with the VR28 lens because the stock option is just the Black Iridium Lens, not the VR28. In my testing today I preferred the VR28. The stock frame for the VR28 has silver sparkles in it. Anyway whatever no big deal. Come to find they make a Brown Smoke frame which come stock with the Bronze Polarized. Perfect. I'll just buy the VR28's as a replacement lens.
Has anyone had on water experience with these lens's. More specifically fishing in creeks that will have both shallow and deep water as well as all sorts of under structure? I'll drop the cash on the glasses with no worries but I'd really like to hear, if possible, some first hand responses of these exact lens's in a stream fishing specific use.
As a side note, do the Oakley cases they sell come equipped with some sort of compartment or something to store extra lens's? And if so how many extra lens's will they safely hold?
Sorry for the long post. It was not my original intention to have you reading some long winded rambling of mine but that's the way it worked out. So is life. If you've managed to hold on, and have experience with these lens's I'd really love to hear what you have to say. I'd greatly appreciate it.
Take care!
- Tony -
