Fly Fishing Techniques by Streamside Adventures
 

Fly Fishing Techniques:
Flyfishing Techniques - Sunglasses It's easy to get hurt fishing - be prepared!
What should you choose for your first rod?  Choosing your first fly rod
Flyfishing Techniques - Sunglasses Good polarizing sunglasses are a necessity!
"Cast to the edges" - mid-western trout stream strategy! Flyfishing Techniques - Cast to Edges
Flyfishing Techniques - Playing Fish Playing the trout correctly means catching the trout!
What you put into your fly box is important! Flyfishing Techniques - Flybox
Flyfishing Techniques - Line Control What's so important about line control?
Cast as well on the stream as when you're practicing! Flyfishing Techniques - Casting
Flyfishing Techniques - Fishing and Watercress Where to fish, and what to eat. Watercress has it all...
 

Fly Fishing Tips: The Importance of Sunglasses

Color of Lenses:

In a perfect world we'd have polarizing sunglasses in several different colors for different conditions and locations. But we don't, so we have to make a choice.

Fly Fishing Tips and Techniques - color of sunglasses lens

The most common color used is a gray lens. Color intensity can range from neutral or a smokey gray to a dark gray. Gray lenses are the best at preserving normal color relationships and decreasing brightness but they do nothing for contrast enhancement.

Fly Fishing Tips and Techniques - color of sunglasses lens Yellow lenses are excellent at gathering light to increase contrast under low to moderate light conditions. These color lenses are also valuable during hazy or foggy condition often encountered during early mornings. This color can be uncomfortable for people with light sensitive eyes.
Fly Fishing Tips and Techniques - color of sunglasses lens Copper /amber lenses are best compromise between the natural color preservation of gray and the contrast enhancement of yellow lenses. Copper/amber lenses are particularly good for rocky streams, and are Helpful with the diffused light conditions of early morning, late evenings and fog
Fly Fishing Tips and Techniques - color of sunglasses lens Vermilion/Rose lenses are the color of choice if you will be fishing in the clear and relatively uniform waters of the salt water flats or in deep slow spring creeks. Under other conditions they tend to decrease fish seeing abilities. But, rose colored glasses will give you a great outlook on life even if the fishing is not as great as you had hoped.

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