Got new shirts sent to me a few weeks back from Joseph at Apex Industries for a review. The first shirt was a XXL Hanes short sleeve navy blue Apex Predator Shirt with a Largemouth Bass 2 color graphic on the front and nothing on the back. The second was an XXL Hanes royal blue Top Gun Shirt with tuna graphics in one color and logo on the front and the Apex Predator logo on the shoulders across the back. Got to try both of them out on half day trips out of Long Beach Sportfishing on the Icon the past few weekends. (View the reports from trip 1 and trip 2).
Overall I like the shirts, both are good quality shirts from Hanes and the screening was done well on both, only in two color on the Apex Predator shirt and one color on the Top Guns. I found the darker blue Apex Predator with the large mouth bass to be my favorite of the two with the darker navy blue, it had a tag but I removed it before going out on the second trip (don’t like tags, I cut them out of most of my shirts).
The royal blue Top Gun shirt got attention from other anglers on the boat. The white one color tuna stands out on the lighter blue. Not my taste in color, but I do like the graphics. Got to get some blood on it the first time out, not tuna, just cuda.
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| From 23rd Trip: 1/2 Day Afternoon on the Icon 8/8/09 |
With the large mouth bass shirt and my son Jonathan.
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| From 24th Trip: Slow Afternoon 1/2 Day on the Icon 8/16 |
Apex Predator LMB w/ Hardbait (Shortsleeve)
Product: Apex Predator Large Mouth Bass w/ Hardbait (Shortsleeve T-Shirt)
Color: Navy
MSRP: $14.99
Manufacture: Ap3x Industri3s (Apex Industries)
Available: Online http://www.ap3xpr3dator.com/
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| From Product Reviews |
Product: Apex Predator Top Guns Slug Tuna (Shortsleeve)
Color: Royal Blue
MSRP: $12.00 – $15.00
Manufacture: Ap3x Industri3s (Apex Industries)
Available: Online http://www.ap3xpr3dator.com/
Final Thoughts:
Apex Predator has laid down a good foundation of products to start with. Along with the shirts they have hats and long sleeve shirts as well. As an angler I would like to see the line expanded out to hooded sweatshirts and or zip ups, I like to wear hooded sweatshirts on the twilight runs and in the winter months out on the boats. Time will tell how well the shirts hold up in the washer and dryer over and over, I suspect as good as any other good quality shirt. Nice product and I plan to get some mileage out of them.
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