Felt Sole Wading Boots

[islandspeed]

I will be planning a two week trip this spring to visit my brother and to spend a great deal of this time on the water. My brother has mentioned that MO has passed new regs regarding the wearing of felt soled wading boots in some (?) of your trout streams. Any insight on this new reg? Does this mean that I can't bring my brand new felt soled wading boots with me?

[Outside Bend]

The reg won't go into effect until March 1st, 2012, so you should be fine.

[MaxDrown]

The regulation doesn't start until March I believe.

[eric1978]

I believe "spring" starts in March, so...hang up the felts. I heard from a reliable source that, basically, if it's a stream with trout in it, the felt is gonna be banned there. Just what I heard, we'll see.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

I understand why... but really ???? Banning felt soled boots ???? Really .... now another thing MDC river monitors will be watching for...

I understand Simms quit entirely making felt soled anything - but by popular demand - they reintroduced them.

Very tough to enforce.. and too little too late if you ask me. Just my .02. Brian

[laker67]

I understand why... but really ???? Banning felt soled boots ???? Really .... now another thing MDC river monitors will be watching for...

I understand Simms quite entirely making felt soled anything - but by popular demand - they reintroduced them.

Very tough to enforce.. and too little too late if you ask me. Just my .02. Brian

Watch out, ob will be the first to give you a lecture on why you are not intitled to have that opinion.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

I would love to hear the reasons why this change makes 100% sense.

EDIT - here is the LINK and the VIDEO : http://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/mdc-bans-porous-soled-waders-help-protect-trout-waters-invasive-algae

[jdmidwest]

You don't have to hang up the felts, just glue them shut (the porus material). MDC released a video on how to do it, but I have been busted down to dialup again due to a satellite problem and could not watch it.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

At the end - the guy says " What's your favorite trout stream worth to you ? "

So I get it. I will buy a new pair of boots. I have already had the Five-Ten black soled boots by LLBean and they were great.

Bass Pro will surely sell a ton of the Eco-Clear boot now. Brian

[FishinCricket]

I will be planning a two week trip this spring to visit my brother and to spend a great deal of this time on the water. My brother has mentioned that MO has passed new regs regarding the wearing of felt soled wading boots in some (?) of your trout streams. Any insight on this new reg? Does this mean that I can't bring my brand new felt soled wading boots with me?

Just don't bring any Diddy Mo and it'll all be kewl... M'kay?