It's Carlings Black Label for the Northern Ohio area. And please bend the bill on the sides of the cap, and not look like a duffus with a flat billed hat!! It is even functional to do so. Unless you are way over weight from drinking the beer on your hat, you'll helicopter right up off the bank in a strong headwind with that flat billed cap!!

Too familiar. My other half has an understanding with me that if it exists in my fishing area, or near it.....then it's off limits and can only subject me to the standard verbal abuse aver how unorganized the fishing gear is or how its encroaching on her sewing area......hats that dwell in that range are safe, but I dare not let them leave my fishing area unattended, likely I'll be looking for where I left it for a long time.

Had another hat in the mid 70's. It could be best described as a fedora with fishing lures hanging all over it. Something Lefty would have worn in the 70's. I wore it everywhere, even on dates. Which explains why I didn't go on many dates.

starting to be able to tell you when I caught certain fish in pictures by the hat i was wearing in the photo. woman have shoe's i have polarized sunglasses and hats. bouncing between maui jims or coasta's for my next set and possibly a coasta hat...

When I hear about the hats; I bring up “why so you need all those shoes, when you never wear half of them”. That usually changes the subject.

I am jealous of the Pabst hat. My Pabst hat was beer cans crocheted together by my grandmother. Now that was an ugly hat. She sold the Schlitz hat. Steel cans.
Thats a beer of many headaches in high school in the 70's.

Never thought about hanging onto my old hats/caps. Except a few. My old black Resistol that I wore when I had pack horses is hanging on a harness hook in the basement with my lariat, spurs (which I almost never wore!), and bridle. My Resistol campaign hats (smokey the bear - straw and felt) from park ranger days are packed in the box for when/if I come out of retirement. I also have my first one, a Stetson, that I should convert to fly fishing. It was a damn poor hat but should work fine for keeping the sun off my ears.

Generally, I wear caps when in the bush or fly fishing. Pulling the hood of my breathable raingear over cap works great for keeping the flies out of my neck on real windy days. Somehow I don't think the campaign hat will be nearly as functional. When caps wear out, they're disposed of. I usually use the same cap for fishing and waterfowl hunting. They don't last long.

There is a real benefit to a hat that no one has brought up, and that is too reduce your chances for skin cancer. My fishing partner has had a bunch of surgeries on his face/neck/ears from sun exposure. I wear a southeaster hat that has a long bill, and the material extension down to the base of my neck. I can observe the water much better with sunglasses. It keeps the bugs off, and it prevents cancer. I am seeing a lot of anglers on the river, especially guides with the full head mask to prevent skin cancer.

I love my hat. It is a souvenir from chetek wisconsin when I was fishing up there. I could never get rid of it, it is almost part of me.

I hear you there, buckhunter; Baseball, fishing, golf...I have plenty of experience coping with disappointment, failure and attendant neuroses! I need to add something easy!

Fat guy Aaron. You must be from the WEST. I once watched a show featuring Jack Ellum as the bad sheriff, in a series I can't think of the name now. But Ellum was ruthless. A guy once came barging into his office in desperation because someone wanted to kill him. The guy tumbles into Ellums desk as he was sitting in it, and his cowboy hat flies off. Ellum draws his gun, and kills the guy.

You nailed it clinchknot, I'm from Arizona, and we don't take kindly to any hat tomfoolery.

Got to keep your wife out of the man-cave! A few years ago i got rid of about 100 hats in a garage sale (amazing how men who follow their wives to a garage sale love hats). Still have a few well broke-in with many stories behind them. One thing I hate is breaking in a new hat! Once you reach 60 anew hat just doesn't seem to fit in or on!