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#992113 - 08/09/18 12:02 PM Milestone Angling Moment: Readers
The Moderator Offline
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Registered: 02/09/00
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Not a good milestone, but a milestone none the less. Had to use a pair of reading glasses to tie up some leaders last night.

I made it 49 years without having to use readers or glasses to tie a leader. Those days are officially over.

Dang.

I'm old.
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#992115 - 08/09/18 12:07 PM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: The Moderator]
snit Offline
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Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 1844
Loc: Wenatchee, WA
This spring for me using cheaters at 47yo. But I've had contacts since I was 15
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#992116 - 08/09/18 12:12 PM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: The Moderator]
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Registered: 12/11/02
Posts: 5205
Loc: Carkeek Park
Join the crowd Parker.

Can see like a hawk up close, blind as a bat at distance.
Finally bit the bullet a few years and got some prescription sunglasses.
Don’t know why I waited so long.....

It is nice not to wear contacts while fishing and feeling like someone poured super glue in my eyes at the end of the day.
SF


Edited by stonefish (08/09/18 12:13 PM)
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#992122 - 08/09/18 04:29 PM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: ]
fish4brains Offline
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Registered: 08/23/06
Posts: 6866
Loc: zipper
I can see distance just fine but reading a menu without glasses ? headache!
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#992123 - 08/09/18 04:38 PM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: ]
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River Nutrients

Registered: 11/21/07
Posts: 7413
Loc: Olema,California,Planet Earth
Parker knows Braille. That's why he gets slapped so often in bars........

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#992126 - 08/09/18 06:14 PM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: ]
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Registered: 04/28/10
Posts: 319
Loc: Adna
Cheer up Parker. Happened to me shortly after I turned 41.

Got hung up and broke off on my first pass in the morning. Still sorta dark. Pulled a new leader off the roller and I could not see the hole in the swivel which was still attached to the mainline. Bummer.

So I started off on the .75 readers, then shortly up to the 1.0's. Hovered there for a few years resisting the urge to go up in magnification because once you go up, you aint never going back down. I used 1.5's for a decade and now use 1.75's.

Welcome officially to middle age.

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#992140 - 08/10/18 09:18 AM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: The Moderator]
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Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 13521
Welcome to the club Paker. I started using "readers" to tie flies beginning around age 42. Almost 2 1/2 years ago my regular 20/20 vision faltered, and so I've been wearing bifocals since. I dearly love my Maui Jim sunglasses, but on my recent trip last week I discovered that I might as well spend a few bucks and buy some prescription sunglasses with the regular vision correction plus bifocals. Getting older may not be fun, but it beats the hell out of pushing up daisies.

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#992142 - 08/10/18 09:31 AM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: The Moderator]
Todd Offline
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Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 28170
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
Thankfully I have long enough arms that I can tie leaders three feet out...or I'd be wearing them, too.

I can tie stuff fine without my contacts in, but as soon as I put them on it's distance tying all the way.

Fish on...

Todd
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#992202 - 08/13/18 09:57 AM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: The Moderator]
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Registered: 01/27/15
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Keep playing with it and you'll go totally blind.

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#992246 - 08/15/18 02:17 PM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: WDFW X 1 = 0]
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Registered: 10/26/10
Posts: 7260
Loc: Snohomish, WA
Originally Posted By: WDFW X 1 = 0
Keep playing with it and you'll go totally blind.




False. I have 20/20 and I beat it like it owes me money. I may only be a sample size of 1, but the frequency of testing this hypothesis is just ridiculous.

That TMI being said, my eyesight is still amazing at 43. Can still pick up a size 20 dry on a long float and read size 2 font - no problem.

But I can't hear a lick any longer. I mostly have no idea what you are saying to me. Put me in a crowded restaurant and forget about it. Loud rock n' roll, loud guns, loud equipment and loud women have all taken their toll. Now I just nod in agreement and say "cool" and "right on" a lot.
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#992297 - 08/16/18 12:42 PM Re: Milestone Angling Moment: Readers [Re: ]
CedarR Offline
Repeat Spawner

Registered: 08/04/99
Posts: 1463
Loc: Olympia, WA
Originally Posted By: Hankster
It's my distance vision that's fading...the moon and the stars are a little blurry.


Second opinion: You're confusing Evo's nighttime sky photos with the real deal.

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