Rainin' bows

[Capt. Lou]

Imitation felt is a felt look alike developed to forestall the spreading of various stream born viruses . This stuff was suppose to not allow this to happen buy
subsequently is was found it didn't stop this at all!
It's a harder surface but does not grip like felt which in of itself is a struggle to grip well in today's streams which are more dlippery than twenty seasons or more back .
The best are screw in studs or a product called rock grippers that sport aluminum circle cleats mounted on very HD rubber over shoes , which fit your bootfoot so tight you needed to soak em in hot water to slip over boot.
Once on you could wade the worst streams with these in complete confidence!
Unfortunately no longer made wore out my last pair few years back.
So I go the screw in cleat route the once I now use are called goat head spikes
look like screw heads so you have more surface than a spike & less da
damaging to your car & whever you walk.
This all refers to bootfoot waders which I prefer to wear in the eastern
Streams except upper D !