How to Fish, Product Review

Costa Del Mar Makes Trash

While I know that smearing a companies reputation is not a good thing to be doing, the reality is, there’s a lot of crap being made and sold in just about every store you can go to today. To review the sunglasses I’ve had for more than 5 years now would be easy for me, so that’s what I’ll do. I’ll give you a quick review of my two models of Costa Del Mar sunglasses. These are really all I’ve had, so I can’t make a comparison to other sunglass companies. It’s just a review of the obvious good and bad, and unfortunately what I’m suggesting is for you to try a different company. Costa Del Mar is a South Florida based company.

I have two different types of their sunglasses. I have them with glass lenses and with plastic lenses. The glass ones were close to 200 bucks brand new. The plastic ones were 130-150 dollars, somewhere around there. These should be nice pairs. Additionally, I used to have a pair of Costa sunglasses that eventually went missing. They were one of the original models, back when the construction of the glasses was different. I’ve used them for many years. On a more positive note, the glass lens has held up over the years.

These two models of sunglasses have both given me a variety of issues. Despite having a lifetime warranty, as the company has always had, I’m just living with their issues now after learning that the company isn’t able to make any significant fix to the crap they sell. The company appears to have no interest in remedying the problems. The problems don’t make them completely unusable. I’ll just use them the way they are.

Problems:
The rubbery grip along the nose repeatedly comes off. I tried gluing it on with super glue. Don’t try that, it’s too hard to get the glue off the plastic if you don’t put it on perfectly, and it doesn’t do a good job of holding on the rubber. I’m currently using the glass pair without the rubber around the nose. I can still use them like that. The rubber fell off on both pairs.

The lenses on the plastic ones have lines across them. What’s unbelievable is the fact that I sent them in for warranty. They sent me them back only to have the exact same thing happen to the lenses not long after despite me not even using the glasses. Whatever it is they are doing to manufacture these things, they don’t appear to have any interest in fixing.

I really just wouldn’t even trust the company with your money. I can’t give you any advice on what sunglass company you should go with, sorry about that. If you’re wearing sunglasses though, you should definitely try to get polarized sunglasses. It makes a difference.

Summer Fishing

A Day on The Water (More Added)

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Troy Friedlander just caught this nice little male snook next to us up here on the north end of 3-Rooker Island. It’s really beautiful out here, a nice breeze. Get out, and go boating.

Yep, today was pretty cool! It was a great day on the water. The environment seemed quite happy with us. Jen, my buddy John’s girlfriend is new to the area and hadn’t been on a boat before. I’d like to think the experience was a mostly good experience where she was able to see a lot of what the coastline can do. We saw osprey diving into the water chasing dinner, large and small stingrays on the grass flats in the protected coves. We saw big schools of dolphins with the adult dolphins swimming alongside the small young dolphins. We watched the little baby dolphins playing as they swam around behind the north end of Honeymoon Island. The little dolphins were being especially playful, rolling around and surfacing like there weren’t 10 boats in the surrounding waters. When we reached Caladesi the hill tide was in full effect creating a lazy river in the waterway behind the island, a common sight for this protected little cove. We enjoyed the fast moving water and dropping tide where we saw an abundance of birds and other water creatures. The birds included great blue herons, pink spoonbills, plovers, seagulls, and oystercatchers. There were so many crabs back there it was really awesome. Hermit crabs housed in old sea shells were scattered across the bottom. We picked them up as we floated along the lazy river. There was a little tiny crab that looked like a stone crab hiding in the bottom of a large scallop like shell. Fiddler crabs were right along the edge of the lazy river. I walked right up to the large cluster of them on the beach. I even found the rare sand dollar buried in the sand. It was a truely eventful afternoon. We ended up eating at the restaurant on the causeway called High and Dry. Elissa Day had told me she worked there, and I had no idea what or where High and Dry was until we stopped and ate at the little tiki hut on the Dunedin Causeway today. The food wasn’t very good, but I can definitely give them props on the location. We sat as the sun approached the sunset. It was such a nice day and a nice evening, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick that’s for sure. If you can get on the water you should. Go see what you can find. There’s so much to see.

Here’s the Caladesi Island lazy river video from today with myself and friends. You’ll also see the bird called a oystercatcher and fiddler crabs.
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Also check out this 1 minute clip of black skimmers on 3-Rooker Island.

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