Waders don’t deserve lethal reputation

by Bishfish on June 8, 2006

From Fishing Jones, a link to a story about the drowning of a US fisherman, while wearing waders.

As usual the myth that waders filled with water will make you sink is trotted out with little regard for the facts, as outlined in this article.

But don’t take the fact that waders filled with water will not pull you under is a license to ignore basic safety when wading. I have taken three trips down a river in waders and it is not an experience I want to repeat. Trying to keep my head away from boulders, my body from being caught around trees fallen in the river, etc., left me utterly exhausted, and in one case suffering from hypothermia. All in all – not goodness.

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  1. Belt Up When Wading
  2. A Hole in One, Then the Other
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