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4 Features to Look for in Hardcore High-Performance Florida Fishing Apparel

There’s something different about you hardcore Floridian anglers. You know who you are. You don’t just choose to spend 14 unshaded hours on the open water under Florida’s unrelenting sun; you live for it. You’re happiest when you’re hunting a fish that weighs more than you do. You’ll brave the humidity, coastal storms, snakes, gators, and swarms of tropical biting insects. Anyone who loves fishing enough to go Florida-level hardcore needs gear that is capable of keeping them cool, comfortable, and on the boat in Florida’s conditions. That means professional-grade, high-performance fishing apparel.

Performance Fishing Shirts

 Performance Feature 1: Full Coverage with UV Protection
The seasoned Floridian knows that staying cool under the unrelenting Florida sun is about more skin coverage rather than less. Protecting the skin from direct contact with sunlight keeps you cooler and safer. Choose long-sleeved professional-grade performance fishing shirts that offer UPF 50+ UV protection.

Performance Feature 2: Lightweight and Breathable
For those unfamiliar with sport fishing in the Florida hat, wearing clothing that provides more coverage to stay cool might sound wrong. With the wrong kind of apparel, it would be. The difference is that the high-performance fishing shirts and other gear you want should be designed from high-tech polyester that is lightweight and breathable enough to promote cooling. For instance, consider the gear developed by the Florida-based company, Gillz®. They have developed proprietary GillzTec fabric, which actually feels cool to the touch. Combined with an innovative cross-breeze ventilation airflow system, protection from the sun is combined with superior cooling.
Performance Feature 3: Moisture-Wicking and Quick-Drying Fabric
A crucial element of any high-performance fishing apparel is moisture-wicking and quick-drying fabric. For example, the GillzTec fabric achieves that by dispersing any moisture evenly throughout the fabric, optimizing dryness and cooling with the rapid release of that moisture into the air. The result is increased comfort, whether the source of the moisture is sweat, spray from the ocean, or a cloudburst.
Performance Feature 4: Stain-Resistant and Machine-Washable
The importance of finding stain-resistant and machine-washable performance fishing apparel is all-too-often overlooked. If you’re a true angler, you know how messy that handling fish can get. It happens when cutting or hooking bait, when landing or gaffing fish, when chumming, and more. For the sake of anyone you encounter after a day of fishing as well as your own, make sure that your performance fishing gear is stain-resistant and can be thrown right into the washer.
About Gillz®
For as long as Kent Hickman can remember, he has loved fishing. As a kid in his native Florida, he made the most of every world-class angling opportunity he could find. His love of fishing continued, guiding Kent to the professional fishing tournament circuit as an adult. Preparing for his tournaments, Kent couldn’t find fishing apparel that reliably stood up to the harsh, demanding conditions of the Florida coast. Hardcore anglers need to have gear they can rely on to keep them dry, cool, and comfortable. They need gear that can protect them from the elements as well as the heat and UV rays produced by the unrelenting Florida sun. In 2009, Kent founded Gillz® to provide other hardcore anglers with professional-grade, high-tech, high-performance, and always stylish fishing apparel. Gillz® apparel now includes shirts for fishing, fishing masks, hats, polarized shades, accessories, and more.
Fish longer, fish harder, and keep comfortable with Gillz® performance fishing apparel at https://gillz-gear.com/

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