Look what I found a pair of Costa Caballito Sun Glasses

gudnoyez

I now kinda know that Costa is a well talked about brand of Polarized Glasses for fishing enthusiasts, but do they really fetch $150-$229?


While cutting the Ice fishing trip short because of a Super Bowl fish fry while pulling my sled back to shore off in the distance I spied a pair of these on the frozen slab of ice. Thinking ok a pair of glasses looking on line these cost a bit of coin. I bet someone must be bumming out when they got home. Are Costa that good of a brand?

NotaSuv

Great glasses for fishing I also use to wear a pair when I ice fished in MN..great glare cutters...there are lots of great glasses out there but these do cost a bit of coin and well worth it IMHO and 40 years on the water fishing....I'll take em over Maui Jims any day...…….

txcoastal1

I have 1/2 dozen pair of Costa’s

Different lens and frames for different conditions on the water and hunting

Yeah the guy is bummed

pitdogg2

My eyeglasses I wear everyday are polarized and turn dark in sunlight. If you wear prescription eyeglasses you owe to yourself to make them polarized as well.

I have no idea about those as they're some awful pricey aftermarket sunglasses out there that in my opinion are way overpriced. Many polarized glasses on the market will not pass the polarization test. That test is take two lenses and put them together and turn one 90° you should not be able to see anything through those lenses at that time. If you see light or anything except black darkness the polarization is very weak.

txcoastal1

One of my old fishing buddies is an optometrist

He confirmed that at the very least my Costa’s I was wearing that day were polarized

And yes you are correct Ivan there are a lot of frauds out there in sunglass world

There is only 7 manufactures of sunglasses out there

Brands are OEMs from those factories

Hermitism

txcoastal1 wrote: »

I have 1/2 dozen pair of Costa’s

Different lens and frames for different conditions on the water and hunting

Do you have whatever lens is required to find @ken brydson ?

pitdogg2

txcoastal1 wrote: »

One of my old fishing buddies is an optometrist

He confirmed that at the very least my Costa’s I was wearing that day were polarized

And yes you are correct Ivan there are a lot of frauds out there in sunglass world

There is only 7 manufactures of sunglasses out there

Brands are OEMs from those factories

Luxottica probably owns 95% of them. An Italian monopoly for sure. Ray ban and Oakley didn't play their game and refused to be bought buy them, so they crushed them and bought them for pennies on the dollar. They own it all from the Lenscrafters and other companies to the eye insurance everyone uses. A complete monopoly top to bottom. 60 minutes had a great news story on them.


http://www.luxottica.com/en/eyewear-brands

krazypolk

pitdogg2 wrote: »

txcoastal1 wrote: »

One of my old fishing buddies is an optometrist

He confirmed that at the very least my Costa’s I was wearing that day were polarized

And yes you are correct Ivan there are a lot of frauds out there in sunglass world

There is only 7 manufactures of sunglasses out there

Brands are OEMs from those factories

Luxottica probably owns 95% of them. An Italian monopoly for sure. Ray ban and Oakley didn't play their game and refused to be bought buy them, so they crushed them and bought them for pennies on the dollar. They own it all from the Lenscrafters and other companies to the eye insurance everyone uses. A complete monopoly top to bottom. 60 minutes had a great news story on them.


http://www.luxottica.com/en/eyewear-brands

60 minutes? That's fake news.

gudnoyez

https://www.costadelmar.com/us/en/voyager/caballito/CL.html
Lucky find for sure these are the ones. I just ordered the Costa keepers and a hard case for them, nice find for sure. The guys I was with took the short cut back to the truck I crossed the lake and it paid dividends

kharp1

Own a few pair of Costa. Love them. Only sunglasses I wear. Well worth the $180.

Willow

I lost a pair the other day. Where abouts do you live again?

gudnoyez

Willow wrote: »

I lost a pair the other day. Where abouts do you live again?

And at your posting time I can see you have been losing sleep, describe them please.

Willow

gudnoyez wrote: »

Willow wrote: »

I lost a pair the other day. Where abouts do you live again?

And at your posting time I can see you have been losing sleep, describe them please.

You do realize I'm just buggin' I don't ice fish and You can bet we are not even close geographically.

gudnoyez

Willow wrote: »

gudnoyez wrote: »

Willow wrote: »

I lost a pair the other day. Where abouts do you live again?

And at your posting time I can see you have been losing sleep, describe them please.

You do realize I'm just buggin' I don't ice fish and You can bet we are not even close geographically.

I do realize that it would be pretty easy to describe them with pictures and a link to thier site.

Willow

gudnoyez wrote: »

Willow wrote: »

gudnoyez wrote: »

Willow wrote: »

I lost a pair the other day. Where abouts do you live again?

And at your posting time I can see you have been losing sleep, describe them please.

You do realize I'm just buggin' I don't ice fish and You can bet we are not even close geographically.

I do realize that it would be pretty easy to describe them with pictures and a link to thier site.

I was going to mention that too but didn't want to in case you thought I was serious about having lost a pair.