Had this issue arise this past year

[moguy1973]

Had to break down and get some cheaters this past year.  Those hook eyes are getting mighty small.

[JohnP]

11 minutes ago, moguy1973 said:

Had to break down and get some cheaters this past year.  Those hook eyes are getting mighty small.

I'm in the same boat although I havent broke down for the cheaters  just yet but probably should ;).

 

[Lake Lover]

It doesnt get any better either, you just have to buy more cheaters. One for the boat, the truck, the garage, your office etc etc.  Menards sells them in 6 packs. 

[BilletHead]

              Cheaters my rear!

  Trifocals baby .    If you really want to go uptown trifocal sunglasses 🤪

  BilletHead

[Johnsfolly]

11 hours ago, moguy1973 said:

Had to break down and get some cheaters this past year.  Those hook eyes are getting mighty small.

That hook eye is huge compared to trying to tie on a #20 or #24 hook. Fighting age, but will have to break down and get those glasses 😌.

[Tanderson15]

Progressive or longer arms for me. 

[Al Agnew]

I wear prescription bifocal sunglasses, which goes a long way to solving the problem, but if it's a very small hook eye and light line, I can do better by taking the glasses off.  Being near-sighted all my life, I always wore glasses (tried contacts but my eyes seem to be especially sensitive and I couldn't keep the contacts in very long--finally just got tired of fooling with them).  But my vision was always very sharp close-up, whether or not I had the glasses on.  So when the inevitable change with age occurred, it just meant that I couldn't see close-up with the glasses on anymore.  Hence bifocals.  But, I still see perfectly with no glasses from 8-12 inches away, better even than with the bifocals.  So any close work I do I take the glasses off--I keep them on a strap so that I can just take them off and let them dangle.  And I paint my paintings without the glasses--works well for the close-up detail work, and when I back off it all blurs out and I can see the major shapes and colors.

[fishinwrench]

Y'all didn't eat your carrots when you were younger, did ya?  

When my grades started taking a nosedive in 6th grade my mom decided it was because I couldn't see the blackboard at school 🤣 so to the eye doctor we went.  Sure enough that boy needs glasses.  I wore them until a smoking hot little cowgirl told me that I had beautiful eyes and laid a kiss on me that still to this day haunts my dreams. 

Off came the glasses .... and I haven't needed any since.  😊

[Seth]

I'm near sighted like Al. Anything within a few feet is clear, but it gets blurry enough to be annoying after that. I've got contacts that I wear when I am fishing or hunting, but I just wear my glasses for the most part. Lasik would be awesome, but I'm a tight wad.

[JohnP]

Bought some #4 octopus circle hooks last week to tie up some worm harnesses and this tiny hook fell out of the package, glad I dont have to try and thread line thru the eye of this hook.  Had to look at thru a magnifier to see it has a eye on it ;).