Purpose Built Sunglasses – See your Live Sonar Clearer By Bernard Williams

[Slab]

Purpose Built Sunglasses – See your Live Sonar Clearer By Bernard Williams, Outdoor Writer


Sunglasses, we all need them in bright sunlight due to sun glare. With more anglers going to Live Sonar, having the right sunglasses are as important as the right lure. Picking the right sunglasses for Live Sonar is an essential function of fishing nowadays, so much so that anglers are leaving the sunglasses made by fashion companies and going to sunglasses explicitly built for Live Sonar and marine electronics.

Enter Hook and Bullet (HB) with their Purpose-Built Optics (PBO). They take advantage of the advances in sun lens technology by scientifically designing lenses that enhance color and contrast to produce superior clarity. PBO lenses have more detail than what’s perceived by the naked eye. HB lenses increase the depth perception, read shadows, textures, and highlight features unique to a particular environment.

In the end, you have the most technically developed sunglasses ever made. Every lens gives you the highest visual clearness and the ability to see things you may have skipped. PBO guarantees you the sharpest target acquisition available.

Here’s the deal, marine electronics, specifically Live Sonar, have polarizing screens, fashion company sunglasses have the same polarizing lens. In essence, they cancel each other out (polar blackout), and you’re back to zero. HB optics increase the Visual Light Transmission (VLT) to give you a more detailed, sharper, brighter view of your subject.

HB also make sunglasses for whatever your outdoor pursuit:

• Fishing - Offshore, Inshore, and Flats, Freshwater
• Hunting/Shooting - Upland game, Waterfowl, Clay targets
• LightPro is a revolutionary new lens that provides exceptional protection from glare and allows you to see your marine electronics, especially Live Sonar.

LightPro comes in several frame colors, Recurve, Deep Eddy, Top Shot, and Storm. They come with three color lenses, Blue LP, Rossa LP, and Atocha LP. HB lenses are scientifically formulated and optimized for your environment, Hook and Bullet’s heart and soul.

The HB LightPro sunglasses are the clear choice of top anglers like Todd Huckabee, John Godwin, Ronnie Capps, Lamar Bunting, Greg London, Brandon Smith, Caleb Jones, Jason, and Jim Westerberg. These guys are a few of the top pros in the crappie fishing field.

The chart below shows the specifics of each lens provided by HB. HB LightPro optics have a lot higher Visual Light Transmission allowing you to prevent the “polar blackout” i.e. dark screen images and still provides 100 UV protection.


I trust this review will help you select the proper eyewear for using marine electronics. I have nothing against high-end fashion sunglasses. They just don’t work correctly for looking at my electronics all day in bright sunlight. Check out the Hook+Bullet website (Hook and Bullet). You can use my discount code (MCC2022) and receive a 20% discount at check out. Bernard

[Slab]

Magnolia Crappie Club's Bernard Williams emailed this to me to share with y'all, so I thought I would. I thought that chart was kinda interesting.

[Tradbow]

I don’t need another pair of glasses but dang Slab you sure make it tough not to.

[DockShootinJack]

Interesting read. Does make one think

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Thanks for sharing this! I really struggle in the sun.

[DockShootinJack]

Prices seem to be in with the other brands of sunglasses

[MCG1]

Those red lenses sure are sexy, and sexy is important. It sure seems to work for ketchn and noodlerod!

[DockShootinJack]

Those red lenses sure are sexy, and sexy is important. It sure seems to work for ketchn and noodlerod!

They would pair up well with that new Crappie.com hat