Vision is everything when fly fishing. Learn how to pack equipment, including polarized glasses, to go fly fishing with these video instructions.
Alvin has been a fly fishing guide and casting instructor for 12 years, and has been fly fishing for 32 years. He is a graduate of the first Joan Wulff fly-casting instructor's school, and has fished all over the western United States, Canada, Belize, Argentina, Chile and Honduras.
ALVIN DEDEAUX: Essential equipment right here, polarized glasses, and a cheap pair of polarized glasses will do you a lot better on the water than a really expensive pair of non-polarized glasses. What these glasses do is to have a little polarizing filter built in the lenses and they block the reflected light that comes off the water. So, it does a lot of things for you. One, you're not staring at the glare all day. The other is you can actually see through the water a lot better whether you're waiting, that helps so that you know you're not going to step into a deep hole or stumble over a rock, and if you're actually sight fishing, it'll allow you to see the fish in the water whereas a regular pair of glasses won't cut that glare. Another important thing to have with your polarized glasses 'cause they can be pretty expensive is a keeper or a lanyard, something that will keep these glasses from falling in the water. I've had these pair of glasses for years and the only reason I have is because I have this keeper on. They've fallen off my head, they've been blown off in boats, I've fall down in the water and you know floated everything, but my glasses were always here 'cause I got a strap on them. So they also will protect your eyes from fly and hooks. So, I pretty much have these on from the first cast until the last cast of the day.
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