Wading boots play a big importance in fly fishing. Do not overlook its importance. Wrong selection of wading boots can cause easy slipping and sliding, sometime falling. Plus good wading boots enhance the safety greatly while you are fly fishing.

 

The material for wading boots is very critical because you are wearing again all kinds of rough surfaces, rocks, logs, and others. Synthetic leather is a good choice because it doesn’t absorb water and it is durable. Another typical choice is felt sole material. Felt sole material provide decent traction in most situation.

 

The most commonly seen wading boots include rubber sole wading boots, felt sole wading boots, and saltwater wading boots.

 

Quality boots cost over $100 like River Guard Ultralight Wading Boot with Eco TraX Soles which is around $200. Other less expensive but durable boots include River Guard Streamline Boot, Teva Wet Wading Boot, River Guard Streamline Boot, Ovis Wet Water Wading Boot and etc. They usually cost between $50 and $100. The Men’s sizes vary between 5-13 and women size usually is betwen 7 and 11.