First light and last light. That's its whole world. If you're running before sunrise, hunting a last-light hatch, or navigating a squall in the afternoon, Violet is built for exactly those minutes. At 22% light transmission, it lets in more light than any other lens we make, pulling detail out of shadow and low-contrast conditions.

You can, but you won't want to. It's our lightest lens, designed to squeeze every bit of visibility out of minimal rays. Mid-day on the flats in full sun, Violet is going to let in more light than your eyes need. Save it for the bookends of the day and let Green or Blue handle that grind.

Yes, and this is one of its most underrated uses. Low light plus water spray plus cloud cover is exactly where Violet shines. It brightens and clarifies without washing out.

Sight fishing, full stop. It's brighter than Copper or Green Mirror, which means it pulls up contrast on low-contrast fish in a way darker lenses don’t. It helps you see the target you’d otherwise miss.

No. Rose is a low light lens, but it doesn't give up when the sun rises. At 18% light transmission it's the second brightest lens we make, and the reason it holds in full sun is contrast, not exposure. Rose makes fish pop against their background across a wide range of light.

Copper is the original fishing lens. No mirror, just a warm, contrast-rich base that's been catching fish for decades. Rose takes a similar foundation, sets a rose mirror finish over a light copper base, and turns the contrast dial up. The result is a brighter, more technical view of the water column. Old heads swear by Copper. Sight casters swear by Rose. Neither is the wrong answer.

Rivers, lakes, and stillwater. It was designed specifically for those environments. The copper base warms up your field of view and helps you distinguish fish from rocks and shadow from structure. The silver mirror finish manages glare without going as dark as Green or Blue. It's a medium light lens with room to move in both directions, holding steady when the sun climbs and staying useful when the clouds roll back in.

It's one of our best freshwater lenses. The copper base pulls contrast out of the water in a way that's hard to beat for rivers, lakes, and anything that isn't open ocean.

Both run a copper or amber base and both are solid all-day performers. Green Mirror is darker at 12% light transmission versus Silver's 14%, and it's built for bright light: high sun, open water, anywhere the glare is relentless. Silver sits in medium light and gets better as conditions soften.

Almost everything. The amber base gives you enough contrast to separate a fish back from a mangrove branch. The green mirror keeps your eyes from getting destroyed staring into deep blue water all day. It's not the perfect lens for every single situation, but it's never the wrong call.

It's not what it was built for, but yes. At 12% light transmission, Green is best used as a bright light lens.

Anything in bright sun with a target near cover. Snook on sea walls. Tripletail under crab traps. Bass beds in high summer. The amber base gives you the contrast to pick a fish off structure, and the green mirror manages the glare that comes with wide-open sunny water. It's also the go-to for tower boat fishing where you need to spot fish at depth from height. 

Bluewater. Offshore. Open ocean. Spotting fish in 50ft+ of water. At 10% light transmission, Blue is our darkest lens, and that's intentional. It’s the lens that keeps your eyes rested and functional by the time you need them most.

It can work, but it's generally overkill. Blue is designed for blinding, open-water conditions. Inshore and flats fishing usually benefit from more contrast and a brighter base, which is where Green, Rose, or Silver come in.

It's the darkest lens we make, letting in only 10% of available light. For context, Green Mirror and Gray both sit at 12% LT, Silver and Copper at 14%. Blue is built for situations where everything else would leave you squinting. If you're not staring into open water all day, you probably don't need it.

It keeps things low-key with no mirror finish. It still includes our industry-leading polarization and LAPIS blue light blocking. From the outside it looks like any other nice sunglasses.

When you need performance without the reflective finish. Gray is a bright light lens, same light transmission as Green Mirror, built for full sun conditions. If you wear your fishing sunglasses everywhere and you're not into the flashy mirror look, Gray gives you clarity and protection with a low-key aesthetic. It's also a solid call for days where you're moving between the water and a social situation and don't want to switch glasses.

Not its strong suit. Mirror lenses, especially Rose, Violet, and Silver, give you more contrast and more ability to pick fish out of the water column. Gray is more of a comfortable all-day vision lens than a spot-that-tail-at-60-feet lens. If sight fishing is the goal, go mirror. If you want comfortable protection in bright sun without the mirror finish, Gray delivers.

It's the original. Before mirrors, before blue light blocking, before any of the tech that exists now, anglers figured out that a copper and amber tint pulled contrast out of the water better than anything else. We kept Copper in the lineup because it works, has always worked, and some things don't need to be fixed. We just added LAPIS and made it better.

Anyone who wants the warmest, most direct view of the water with nothing sitting on top of it. Copper runs the same polarization and the same LAPIS blue light blocking as every lens we make, and at 14% light transmission it's letting through exactly as much light as Silver Mirror does. Dry fly anglers love it for tracking a fly on the surface. Smallmouth fishermen love it for reading rocky bottom. And some love it because it's the lens they started on and never had a reason to leave. Those that wear it, swear by it.

Less than you'd think. Same copper base, same 14% light transmission, same medium light category. Silver adds a mirror finish over the top, which handles surface reflections. Pick Silver if you want reflection control for long days on rivers and stillwater. Pick Copper if you want the purest version of the contrast.

One of the best for medium light and freshwater. It's not the call for bluewater offshore or scanning a bright white sand flat in full sun, where a mirror or darker lens is going to serve you better. But for the angler who spends most of their time on rivers, lakes, and stillwater, Copper is a clean and versatile lens that won’t let you down.