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Best prescription polarized sunglasses?

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#1 ·
Well with my advanced age I am in the market for a prescription pair of sunglasses. The optician stated Maui Jim has the best prescription glass lens over Smith Optics then Costa.
Just curious what other folks think?
 
#30 ·
I went to my normal eye doctor for the exam and script, then took it to Costco to pick out and order the glasses. Your script needs to be less than a year old. I don't know why they care about that, but they do. They don't have the world's greatest selection of frames, but I've always found some that work for me.
 
#32 ·
I used a shop in North Carolina that a buddy of mine was really pushing. He was on the Costa pro/guide program I believe. I certainly assume they were an authorized rep, but can’t say I looked into it that carefully. This was probably 5-6 years ago.
 
#33 ·
I am on my third pair. I am sold on smith. I have glass amber lenses just for distance (because I didn't know better) and I like them a lot. Also later i bought rose low light plastic lenses (chroma-pop I think) they get lighter and darker w the sun. I absolutely love them for driving and wear them every day. A couple months after buying them I was running my boat after putting a new fuel tank in it and it was rough! I wanted to video tape the motor running - so I grabbed my phone to video it for the wife and while holding my phone with both hands the boat dug in right and I flipped heels over head right out of the boat at 25 knots.. needless to say I bought a new pair of glasses and a new phone. I got the 2nd pair from Patty at "eye and eye" off of sunset dr in miami and she suggested putting the reader a little lower than normal so when walking down a gunnel or getting off the platform you don't get thrown by the difference from the reading portion of the prescription (*brilliant*). It works great and I can read the GPS without adding readers! The glass amber lenses are better for sight fiahing. The rose ones are great all around glasses and I don't change them unless I am looking for fish once the sun is up.

I fished with a very well respected tournament guide recently and his opinion is that the ONLY lenses is the smith amber glass lense.

As well, a guy I met recently was in the keys and on a few overcast days swore that the tarpon were glowing while wearing the real low light smith almost clear lens.
 
#34 ·
FWIW, currently 20% off at Smith’s site. Smith20is the code iirc. It works for RX too.
 
#35 ·
I’m planning to try a pair of smith RX. I’m thinking cromopop due to fishing late mostly.
 
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