I have this supplex nylon full brim hat sold by Columbia…I LOVE it!!!..It looks like HELL!!..JUST like ME!! I store it folded up, & coupled with my gray (almost white) beard, friends(?) tell me I look like the “Gorton’s fisherman”!!! those guys are idiots!!..I would NEVER eat a fish stick!!!..but I WOULD wear a damn UGLY fishin’ hat (if it was LUCKY!)…and mine IS!!!..Just ask Mike Murgida!!
Mike
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From my previous post on hat care, the answer is obvious----really dirty, sweat stained, smelly, disgusting baseball hats. At least until I can try out the diswasher cleaning. 
8T
You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it’s a real short camping season.
if you wash it…they will run…never never never wash a fishin’ hat!!!..the slimier/dirtier the better…fish kin spot a new hat a mile away…they jest laff and make funny fashion comments at your expense…an “experienced” hat will sneak up on the hawgs…as in the Stealth fighters…“they’ll never see you comin’”…just my opinion…your milage could vary
mojo…who knows no one will steal his lucky hat
Brown Tilley Hat, the only hat you will ever need.
Guaranted for life, brass grommets,(meshed for bugs)turned upside down it is a self draining Ice Bucket, Floats, can be used as a bailing can, Chin and back straps.(won’t blow off)
Side snaps.
Best hat made, and best of all, It’s Canadian!
Larger sizes may fit Americans…
sorry… cheap shot.
I’m bad.
Cheers
DuFf
Some days it’s just not worth chewing through the restraints…
Mostly I wear my beat up, stained up-downer. Real nice when there’s a stiff breeze blowing down your neck.
The rest of the time I wear one one my many ball caps. Lately I’ve been wearing “roadkill” hats that I find washed up on the beach.
A favorite one is very well broken in (sea washed)and the bill is covered with barnacles.
“Nick’s heart tightened as the trout moved. He felt all the old feeling” …Ernest Hemingway
I started with a light color and light weight baseball cap with a dark under brim
This is a high tech solution…
[url=http://www.pearlizumi.com/product.php?mode=view&product_id=519&type_id=1&sport_id=5&category_id=12&color_code=508:8ec20]http://www.pearlizumi.com/product.php?mode=view&product_id=519&type_id=1&sport_id=5&category_id=12&color_code=508[/url:8ec20]
and have since replace it with a Filson Shelter Cloth Packer Hat
This is the good old fashion solution…
[url=http://www.filson.com/15SH.HTM:8ec20]http://www.filson.com/15SH.HTM[/url:8ec20]
while on stream and a normal baseball cap to cover up my hat head when off stream
Watership trading company hats are my favorite- much lighter than Filson and Tilley. This is my favorite:
[url=http://www.watership.com/main.php?navarea=Hats&code1=ORC&code=SKO&season=Spring/Summer:ad212]http://www.watership.com/main.php?navarea=Hats&code1=ORC&code=SKO&season=Spring/Summer[/url:ad212]
Steve
?The wild fish were as the wild air, no mans possession but the free gift of God." Arthur Ransome
Lately it has been my full brimmed stetson style cammo hat. I forget the brand but it has realtree camo on it. It keeps the sun off my head and neck. In another month when hunting season starts the flouresent orange version comes out, not worth getting my head shot off. I have met a lot of stupid hunters that will shoot at anything that moves. Besides you would be amazed how many people stay away from you when you wear orange. I love wearing my orange baseball cap around campus and getting nasty looks from all the nature lovers along with my tee shirt that says you are never to old to collect stuffed animals, with pictures of mounts on it.
Who has time for stress when there are fish to catch.
Nick
I will wear one of 200+ ball caps I own (so my wife doesn’t throw them away) and mainly wear a bucket hat my daughter bought for me in Yellowstone which covers my ears and neck so I don’t get burned.
Jon from Idaho