Baseball caps

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Porter2

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IMG_0180.jpegThe no.1 hat worn while fly fishing is the baseball cap . Yet it doesn’t protect the ears which get a high rate of sun damage.

Anyways to the point. I wear a baseball cap most of the time from April thru September. I do have a sun hat but have not worn it much but thinking I should for more facial/ear shade. I have had lucky hats. The ones that are so hard to dismiss from activity. They get a bit ratty tho and bleached out. I usually change out 2/3 years. This is what I’m rolling with now with the green hat being the worn dog. I believe it was a couple shades greener when I bought it. Protects the bald spot on the head at minimum. I also go for the micro belt adjustment sleeve over trucker style peg in system. I also like to contour my brim. Bend and round it out a bit. No flat lid action. These are weird things I do. Sometimes on a hot day in eastern Washington or central Oregon I take my hat off and soak it in the flowing waters and put it back on my head and I feel refreshed for the next 30 minutes. I have also used my baseball cap as a poor man’s shooting basket. Actually the baseball cap hat is a valuable piece of equipment one could say.
 
I either wore a buff pulled over a ball cap to protect ears, cheeks & the back of my neck or my most frequent choice - a floppy-brimmed hat that I would also periodically soak. Eastern WA sun exposure can be brutal.
 
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I have a collection of fishing hats. This one has the best fish catching mojo. Like others, I wear sun protection shirts and pull the hood over the cap. With my history of cancer treatments, I wear full sun protection shirts and long pants with SPF 50 zinc sunscreen on exposed skin. Seldom wear shorts.

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