Optical Conclusions

RAPID-FIRE ADVANCEMENTS IN fishing electronics have bass anglers plunking down big bucks to own the latest in this technology. Sadly, many anglers skimp on something equally important that costs far less: polarized sunglasses.

Polarized sunglasses won’t pinpoint a submerged brushpile or show you a school of bass suspended 15 feet deep in front of your boat. However, they are invaluable for seeing spawners, cruising fish and the bass eyeballing your popper that needs just one gentle twitch to make it commit.

Shallow cover beneath the surface always has and always will attract bass. Polarized lenses cut the surface glare and let you look deeper into the water to see things like stumps, boulders, grass, grass clumps, holes in grassbeds and grass edges.

Because you see more of these objects with superior polarized sunglasses, you’ll cast to more places that are likely to yield a bite. And, you’ll see