Milestone Angling Moment: Readers

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.

This spring for me using cheaters at 47yo. But I've had contacts since I was 15

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

I can see distance just fine but reading a menu without glasses ? headache!

Parker knows Braille. That's why he gets slapped so often in bars........

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.

BB

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.

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

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.

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