Thread: Summer boots
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04-04-2016 #1
Summer boots
So could this be the answer to a comfortable, hikable wet wading boot? It looks like it could be the answer to my prayers.
https://youtu.be/Vd_Xqo9bS_k
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04-04-2016 #2
Re: Summer boots
couldn't you put on some old hiking socks in the boots you have now?
To look good is to fish good
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04-04-2016 #3
Re: Summer boots
The answer to that is absolutely no. I have to wear neoprene socks, a heavy pair of wool socks, add a set of Dr. Scholls gels and after hiking with wet feet my boots still feel as loose as an old whores you know what.
I really need to get a closer to actual shoe size boot for wet wading and since I do a ton of hiking in them, I would like a pair that actually feel more like a pair of broke in hiking boots. Not as stiff as my regular wading shoes, but with enough support to take a knocking around in the stream.
The Simms look pretty good on the screen, but will have to see up close and in person.
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04-04-2016 #4
Re: Summer boots
If you have an old pair of broken in hiking boots, you can take the insoles out and drill a bunch of sheet rock screws through the bottom of the soles. Make sure to counter-sink the heads into the rubber, then cut the screw points off to 1/4" with a pair of dikes to form little studs on the bottom of the boots. Put the insoles back in and you're good to go.
Lacey: Where'd you get that pistol?
Blevins: At the gettin' place.
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04-04-2016 #5
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04-04-2016 #6
Re: Summer boots
Pull the tongue back and dust off your angle-driver
http://www.northerntool.com/shop/too...-WUaAqQz8P8HAQ
Lacey: Where'd you get that pistol?
Blevins: At the gettin' place.
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04-04-2016 #7
Re: Summer boots
I want the felt man. I almost killed myself last summer on Mud Run with an old pair of hiking boots with studs. The problem with old hiking boots is the rubber sole gets hard and loses all its sticky. And steel points on hard round rocks don't cut it.
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04-05-2016 #8
Re: Summer boots
Korkers redsides, with simms neoprene socks....cinch 'em up tight. They'll only last a season with heavy hiking, but they are super comfortable
- "I'm not out on the river to win." -Kieth Rutherford
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04-05-2016 #9
Re: Summer boots
LU recommends Korkers so based on that i would go with the Simms
To look good is to fish good
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04-05-2016 #10
Re: Summer boots
dluver...you are just jealous that I wear new gear instead of your use of MACFLY's thrift shop gear...
- "I'm not out on the river to win." -Kieth Rutherford
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04-05-2016 #11
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Re: Summer boots
What am I missing? My regular hiking boots, whatever they are at the time, work just great in the stream. Felt never did much for me. Good boots are good boots wet or dry.
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04-05-2016 #12
Well unless you are catering to the South Jersey crowd, you better make those "crispy Taylor Ham sandwiches".
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