Columbia Men's PFG Terminal Tackle Long Sleeve Shirt

I bought this shirt for my son to take on a trip to Puerto Rico. He is an avid fisherman, but as pale as they come and burns constantly. This shirt was light enough to allow him to say cool and comfortable, had a great fit for his rapidly growing teenage stature. The shirt appears to be great quality with excellent design and color. He loves it and wears it constantly.

Perfect fit. Great wearing shirt. I have three now to protect from the FL sun. I love all of my Columbia products.

I bought this shirt to wear while Stand Up Paddle boarding (SUP) in blinding Texas heat, and it performs better than I ever could have hoped.When I go for a SUP trip generally I'm paddling hard for 20-30 mins, take a break and swim, then paddle hard for another 20-30 minutes. The times that I'm paddling hard are a serious workout. August in Austin TX is often 100 degrees and incredible powerful sun, doing a workout outside in these conditions can often make you sick. This shirt is amazing, when I'm sweating it is comfortable. But when I jump in the water is when the shirt really shines. It will be 105 and the water is probably 90, and minimal wind. But when I get back on my board wet and start paddling I feel cold where the shirt is touching my skin. This means water is evaporating extremely fast off of the shirt. Which is then confirmed by the fact that after another 20 minutes of paddling in the sun the shirt is almost dry. You'd think that a loose baggy long sleeve shirt would be uncomfortable when wet but this is not the case. The shirt is always comfortable. I pretty much live in synthetic/performance clothes in the summer, and I've never liked a shirt as much as this one.I've also started wearing the shirt around the house because the fabric is very soft and comfortable, it is great as "lounge wear" with a pair of gym shorts. Plenty soft and comfortable as pajamas in somewhat cooler weather.Like everyone else here has said buy a size down. The shirt is designed to be loose and baggy, after all pretty much all serious desert cultures wear loose fitting long sleeve clothing, but the sizing is a bit extreme on this one. I am usually between a medium and a small so I ordered small here and it is loose but it works great for me. It seems that while the arms are loose they try to make the wrist openings smaller, so that fabric doesn't get in the way of what your hands are doing, such as working fishing gear or a paddle. The shirt stays in place nicely if you push the sleeves up past your elbows. Overall a great design. At first I was worried about wearing a loose long sleeve shirt like this for swimming but it is very light and it doesn't feel like its dragging you down when you're in the water.

This shirt is so comfortable! It is lightweight, and it isn’t skin tight. I love the color of this shirt and it’s very breathable. It was well with the money for this shirt.

Very comfortable, durable, and light weight. Size was a good fit, maybe a little loose but that's what I prefer in these lightweight sun shirts.

COLUMBIA PFG FITColumbia makes some fantastic shirts, and the Terminal Tackle series is no exception. The only downside to the Terminal tackle, and the only reason I deducted a star, is that these shirts have freakishly long sleeves. Most PFG shirts run a little large, but the sleeves on these are fairly ridiculous. I am 5’10”, 195 lbs, and would typically wear a Large in most similar styled shirts, but I have to get a Medium in Columbia PFG shirts. Even with the Medium size, the sleeves on this shirt will hang completely over the end of my fingertips. I typically pull the sleeves up anyway, but this is pretty aggravating. Normally, if a shirt fit poorly, I would return, but I packed the shirt for a trip and didn’t have any alternative but to wear it. So the moral of the story is, if you have average length arms, you may want to drop down 1 to 2 shirt sizes from your normal fit. Tip number two is that because these shirts are on different sizing scale, many get returned to the Amazon Warehouse, so keep an eye for Amazon Warehouse deals on these shirts (see tips to finds the easiest way to compare prices across sizes and colors at the conclusion of this review).Another hint with Columbia shirts is that any of the styles which have an SPF rating will be the best for extreme heat. The open style weave is extremely breathable, hence the cooling effect, yet some UV penetration can occur, hence the SPF rating. For example, the Blood & Guts III, Tamiami II, and Terminal Tackle have this type of fabric, which makes them by far my favorite styles for summer time outdoor wear. Below I have rated/summarized this and other shirts in the PFG line based on several factors.MOISTURE MANAGEMENT (SWEAT ABSORBTION, COMFORT LEVEL WHEN MOIST & DRYING SPEED)>Terminal Tackle - 5 Stars>Blood & Guts III - 5 Stars>Tamiami II - 5 Stars>Bonehead – 3.5 Stars>Bahama II – 2 StarsBREATHABILITY FOR WARM WEATHER WEAR>Terminal Tackle – 4.5 Stars (The collared styles below are vented, making them slightly cooler)>Blood & Guts III - 5 Stars>Tamiami II - 5 Stars>Bonehead – 3.5 Stars>Bahama II – 3 StarsOVERALL COMFORT LEVEL>Terminal Tackle – 4 Stars>Blood & Guts III - 5 Stars>Tamiami II – 4.5 Stars>Bonehead – 3.5 Stars>Bahama II – 3 StarsWRINKLE RESISTANCE>Terminal Tackle – 5 Stars>Blood & Guts III - 5 Stars>Tamiami II - 5 Stars>Bonehead – 2 Stars>Bahama II – 1 StarSTAIN RESISTANCE>Terminal Tackle – 4.5 Stars>Blood & Guts III - 5 Stars (Treated Fabric)>Tamiami II – 2 Stars>Bonehead – 3 Stars>Bahama II – 4 StarsFIT (ALL REQUIRE A SIZE SMALLER THAN NORMAL)>Terminal Tackle – Loosest Fit of all, may even require 2 sizes smaller than normal>Blood & Guts III – Trimmest Fit of All, but still order a size smaller than normal>Tamiami II – Fit 1 size smaller than normal (if you wear Large, order Medium)>Bonehead – Fit 1 size smaller than normal (if you wear Large, order Medium)>Bahama II – Fit 1 size smaller than normal (if you wear Large, order Medium)AMAZON PRICE COMPARISON & WAREHOUSE DEALSI found myself getting very aggravated at the way Amazon lists apparel items with multiple colors, as it can take forever to search through multiple color (and size) options to see the cheapest offerings. On my iPad version, the color prices are displayed in a list style automatically, but on my PC desktop I would have to select each color/size to see the price options. I finally found a simpler way. Follow these steps:>Select a color and size option for the shirt.>Look on the right hand side of the screen to see if there are multiple offers for this garment. If so, select the “new and used from” (or “new” if no used offerings available) icon, which will take you to a list view screen. (There must be multiple offerings for the exact size and color selected for this option to appear, so if you do not see the “new and used from” hyper-link, then select another size/color combination till the link appears.)>In the list view screen, select your size and click the “lowest offer for each” icon beside the color selector. This will display the cheapest offering for each color shirt in that size, so you can quickly see which colors are the cheapest. Also, this view will show any Amazon Warehouse Deals available. As mentioned in the first paragraph, these shirts get returned often due to sizing issues, and many times the Warehouse deals are shirts that were tried on, then immediately returned for a smaller size.THANKSThanks for reading my review.

Good quality, super comfortable

Very comfy! Fits well and runs a tab bigger.