

Better still, you wear a fully brimmed hat instead. Some glasses have polarized side panels to reduce back-glare and these are good with a peaked baseball cap. Remember how easy it is to see into a lit up aquarium from a dark room, compared with looking into the sea from a brightly lit beach. The ideal situation is no light at all coming in at the side, and rear, so the lens surface nearest your eye is darkened, with all the illumination on the outside. Try to prevent light getting in at the back of the lenses, because it will reflect into your eyes. Sight fishing for cruising fish is almost impossible without them. For this reason every angler worth the name should wear polarized glasses as long as enough light is present to make them viable, taking them off only during dark rain showers, and in the evening at dusk. This allows you to see into the water better. However the reflected sky on the water surface darkens. On the other hand, a polarized lens removes a great percentage of the glare, the light reflected off the water, and leaves most of the light from above. Unfortunately with simple tinted lenses, good light and glare pass through to your eyes in the same proportion they arrive at the lens.

So you get 80% or 70% reduction or dimming. A tinted sunglass reduces the light going through by a fixed percentage. Remember that a polarized lens is not a tinted lens. The glare can be eliminated by wearing polarized glasses, which will also give eye protection from hooks etc. There is also the fact that light reflected off the water prevents you seeing into the water, where the fish are. Wear Polarized Sunglasses: With hooks flying around your head, some kind of eye protection is desirable.
