PBO PURSUITS
Are you ready? You’ve put in the time, you’ve got the gear. In fact, everything you take on the water and to the field leverages advancements in technology designed to provide you maximum advantage. Except your sunglasses...until now! While some of the old guard see glasses as a fashion accessory, we believe they should be Technical Eyewear, held to a higher standard and purpose built to be an essential tool for enhancing your sight.
The most important connection to your target!
Offshore
PBO’s Offshore pursuit is engineered to provide distinctive color contrast to reveal the subtle nuances necessary to ensure you're operating in the strike zone. Whether you’re dropping back to a billfish, swimming a live bait or chasing pelagics on a weedline, PBO offers a lens with an optimized VLT to give you an advantage for all applications, no matter the conditions.
Excels At:
- Built for the weedline
- See the bait
- Superior contrast
- Easily identify color changes
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 12.7%
- Best for intense to medium sun
Base Tint:
- Gray 10
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Our brightest offshore lens
- Tracks leader-water contact
- Ideal for live baiting
- Great for all light conditions
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 15.0%
- Best for intense to medium sun
Base Tint:
- Gray 50
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Reduce eye strain
- Bright view in intense sun
- Easily follow any leader color
- Great all-around OS lens
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 11.3%
- Best for intense to medium sun
Base Tint:
- Gray 50
- Polarized
Excels At:
- High-def clarity offshore
- Track baits in spread
- See the strike
- Reduce eye fatigue
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 10.8%
- Best for intense to medium sun
Base Tint:
- Gray 10
- Polarized
Inshore + Flats
PBO’s Inshore and Flats line is formulated for sight casting to specific fish, throwing to sand pockets on grass edges and defining submerged structures where they live. Stained or gin clear water, PBO offers lenses scientifically optimized to provide an unprecedented visual connection to ensure success, wherever your passion takes you.
Excels At:
- Identifying sand pockets/grass
- Ideal for sight casting
- Pinpoints ambush spots
- Clear to slightly stained water
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 13.4%
- Best for intense to medium sun
Base Tint:
- Pink Violet 53
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Slightly brighter than Chandy
- Exceptional for sight casting
- Pinpoints ambush spots
- Ideal in clear to stained water
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 14.5%
- Best for med-bright sun
Base Tint:
- Pink Violet 53
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Early morning/Late evening
- Gray/overcast conditions
- Pinpoints ambush spots/bait
- Ideal in all conditions
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 26.4%
- Best for low light
Base Tint:
- Pink Violet 52
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Sight casting to shadows
- Gin-clear water
- Reflective white sand
- Superior sight casting on flats
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 12.5%
- Best for intense to medium sun
Base Tint
- Pink Violet 52
- Polarized
Freshwater
PBO’s Freshwater line is formulated for lakes, rivers and streams. Be it flipping to a bass on a bed, working the timber, casting to a laydown or reading water in search of the perfect seam, this series of lenses offers a variety of VLT optimized for the high country to the lowlands.
Excels At:
- Boosts yellow-brown contrast
- High-def for sight casting
- Mountain Stream/Dock Shooting
- High Contrast
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 17.7%
- Best for bright sun to overcast
Base Tint
- Sepia 80
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Ideal for light-sensitive anglers
- Pro choice for bedding bass
- High altitude fly fishing
- High-contrast in stained water
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 10.1%
- Best for intense sunlight
Base Tint
- Sepia 80
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Ideal for light-sensitive anglers
- Reveals submerged structure
- Tournament proven
- High-contrast in stained water
Light Condition:
- VLT (light thru lens): 10.5%
- Best for intense sunlight
Base Tint
- Sepia 80
- Polarized
Electronics
Have you ever experienced a dark image when looking at your electronics while wearing polarized glasses? PBO’s LightPro line features a revolutionary polarized lens formulation calibrated to provide better color separation and a perfectly clear, unobstructed view of your electronics. GAME-CHANGER!
Excels At:
- Optimized for orange-red palette
- Zero polar black out
- Maximizes screen color separation
- Anglers, Pilots, Photographers
Light Condition:
- VLT: 9.2/19.1/41.2%
- Best for intense to medium sun
Base Tint:
- Gradient Sepia 8X
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Optimized for bluegreen palette
- Murky to clear water
- Maximizes screen color separation
- Superior for OS/IF/FW sonar
Light Condition:
- VLT: 7.5/15.7/45.6%
- Best for intense sun to overcast
Base Tint:
- Gradient Sepia 8X
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Works with every color palette
- Stained to clear water
- Maximizes screen color separation
- Anglers, Pilots, Photographers
Light Condition:
- VLT: 12.3/23.6/47.3%
- Best for bright sun to overcast
Base Tint:
- Gradient Sepia 8X
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Works best with blue/green palette
- Stained to clear water
- Maximizes screen color separation
- Anglers, Pilots, Photographers
Light Condition:
- VLT: 2.3/23.8/48.1%
- Best for bright sun to overcast.
Base Tint:
- Gradient Sepia 8X
- Polarized
Excels At:
- Optimized for red palette
- Stained to gin-clear water
- Maximizes screen color separation
- Anglers, Pilots, Photographers
Light Condition:
- VLT: 11.9/23.0/46.2%
- Best for bright to medium sun
Base Tint:
- Gradient Sepia 8X
- Polarized
Hunt + Shoot
PBO’s Hunting and Shooting line offers lenses designed for wingshooting and clay target pursuits. Both are engineered to provide rapid target acquisition by enhancing the right hues while filtering the background “color noise”. These lenses are not polarized and therefore represent true depth of field, a key to better shooting.
Excels At:
- Improves target acquisition
- waterfowl to upland birds
- Impact resistant
- Anti-reflective/no flare
Light Condition:
- Best for overcast to bright sun
- VLT (light thru lens): 25.0%
Base Tint
- Pink Violet 540
- Non-Polarized
Excels At:
- Improving target acquisition
- Boosting orange, white & yellow
- Muting surrounding color noise
- Impact Resistant Lens
Light Condition:
- Best for overcast to bright sun
- VLT (light thru lens): 24.8%
Base Tint
- Pink/Violet 539
- Non-Polarized