I lost my glasses the first night of the trip and had to have my vexilar within 8" of my face to see what was going on. I had a bobber in the hole next to the 1 I was jigging in and checked on it about every half hour. This 26" eye was hanging on the end of the line as I had to look twice when my bober was below the ice, it was a great excuse-me fish...HEHE!