When you’re going to the grocery store, or you’re out on the town with the family, full-wrap fishing sunglasses with sideplates look like you’re wearing a pair of goggles. That’s what make the new Smith Backcast sunglasses really cool. They are more of a lifestyle frame. In other words, it’s looks like something fit for the street. But that doesn’t mean the Backcast isn’t ready for the salt flats. Even though it is a lifestyle frame, Smith has put in some very fishy features.
As I wore them, I’ve noticed that the lenses and the side arms are designed to block out a lot of sun coming from the side. It also has a little ledge at the bottom that catches sweat, and also a ledge at the top that blocks the sun from coming out from above.
These glasses also have rubber pads on the temples and on the nose to keep them planted on you rface. So, even though they’re not full-wrap sunglasses, they’re not going to slip off my face while I’m out fishing.
They’ve also got Smith’s new rose colored lens. One thing that’s become really popular is having several pairs of sunglasses while you’re out fishing: a lighter lens for lower light conditions, a darker lens for high light conditions. Well, these rose lenses are really great for low light conditions because they brighten up the surrounding area, but they don’t sacrifice the polarization or the anti-glare.
The Backcast sunglasses also have the ChromaPop lenses, which is Smith’s famous lens. There is unrivaled clarity in these lenses. Everything is crystal clear, but they’re also photochromatic. What that means is that as the sun gets brighter, as the UV gets more intense, the lenses actually darken.
So even though the Backcasts don’t look like a pair of traditional fishing sunglasses, they still perform just as well on the water, and you get the photochromatic lenses that tint to the light conditions.
Find the Backcast sunglasses available at Smith Optics.
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