I know the feeling. Sometimes when you first see or try out a product, you think it is possibly the single greates creation in you have ever laid eyes upon. It seemingly fufills all your hopes and dreams that you poured into your search for whatever it was you needed, or just plain wanted. Then however, comes that cruel slap of reality. A fatal flaw is revealed when you take the product and begin to use it regularly. All of those dreams come crashing down. The same thing just happened to me with a pair of boots I bought last year. They were waterproof with 800 grams of thinsulate, whatever the heck that means. When I first started using them they were all I could ever ask for. They kept my feet warm enough when sitting still, but actually breathed to a certain degree when on the move. Thus they became my deer scouting and turkey hunting boots. Then the flaw..they lasted for about a year. Within a short time the sole began seperating from the boot, and durability began to fade in general. A hole soon appeared, and my feet that were once invincible to swamp, stream, and snow, got wet instantly.

Should of saved the leach for you next walleye trip. Good bait!

You softened the blow way too much...still way too much cool-aid. the felt movement was a big bowel movement. Cost the industry money, and gained nothing.

Once the water gets slightly above 50 degrees, I fish in shorts, and Clogs....but found a problem with the clogs with holes in them yesterday. I waded the perimeter of a nearby lake. (They do have Clogs without the holes). I didn't wade above my ankles, but when I got home, and kicked off my Clogs, the top of my foot itched. I looked down, and it looked like a piece of bark was on the top of my foot. I tried to kick it off, and could not...reached down, and had to pull fairly hard to get this big, fat, several inches long leech of the top of my foot. And why he was so fat?..from my blood. There was a blood hole in my foot, and blood ran everywhere. Took me some time, and washings to stop the blood flow. Shows to go you that all of those leeches in lakes do not just feast on detritus vegitation like you read in print.

Now that you mentioned it, I feel bad about flushing the critter. He feels like blood kin: one of my offsprings.

Why won't someone show candor about the biggie...felts!?? Broken legs, dunkins at the least from the inferior replacements, broken profits at the mfger, and retail level, and no positive results. And the mfger of the replacement soles gave it up, and went back to felts!!

Cabelas stock is hotter than Kate Uptons GQ Cover Shoot!

Sounds similar to the hype I have at the beginning of the NFL season after a tall glass of training camp kool-aid. Lets go JETS!

trapper... My brother is a charter boat skipper on Lake Erie. I was on his charter using a black leach fly catching small mouth bass. I fished off the front deck of his boat and out of the way of his clients. His clients brought big "flats" of black leaches, and soft shelled craws aboard. And the leaches were plenty big.

Actually, I'm still loving my Sharkskin lines: 5, 6, 8 and 10-wt. They perform great and are durable. They don't clean up as well, but still float fine.