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Old 03-13-2008, 09:25 AM   #10
SirWinston
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Wakefield, RI
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Contacts for me too.

If there is a large wave (or one of the little buggers pops out, which is not unheard of....), I've got at least partial vision to get back/drive home.

I just don't feel comfortable being perched on the rocks at night knowing that one knock/wave/head movement could render me at a significant disadvantage vision-wise when the glasses go off into the dark.

Mind you, contacts have their disadvantages too. I had one night when I was catching blues one after the other, all 6-7 lb. I had one held with the lip gripper in one hand, pliers in the other hand ready to unhook it when the little sod (deliberately?) managed to scoop up a tailful of sand right into my face.

Sand in both eyes. Under the contacts. No hands free, and the blue now trying everything it could to shake it's way back to the sea.

Agony.

The fishing gods took pity on me and I managed to blink the sand out from under the contacts (something of miracle there). I proceeded to unhook the blue and return it to the sea, but not without going through a good part of my more colourful vocabulary........

"When you stare into the abyss....wink. It'll confuse the hell out of it."
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