01-29-2012, 08:18 PM
Google it.... Never would've thought of that! I have googled it a few times, even done a search on wildlife.utah.gov and only came up with this:
http://wildlife.utah.gov/dwr/news/42-uta...river.html
Which specifically states:
"Don't use wading boots that have a felt sole. Felt-soled wading boots can pick up whirling disease spores and move them from one body of water to another. It's difficult to completely clean and disinfect felt-soled wading boots."
Fact is, all this is hearsay. Go into Cabelas and they try not to sell you a pair of felt sole boots and say it's illegal, when they still sale them??? As does everyone else in Utah so. If they're illegal, why are we selling them. That makes me think that they're not illegal and legally, I can use my brand new felt sole boots without getting a ticket.
I am not worried one bit about the transfer of diseases through using my wading boots as I usually fish the same waters and typically have a week or two in-between time. Plenty of time to kill off/destroy any of these diseases. If the time arises that I would be fishing another body of water, it's not hard to bring a bottle of mixed bleach/water and a tub and wash them off.
I've owned a boat for a few years now, the same rules apply for those, I'm not understanding what banning felt sole boots is going to accomplish in this seeing that either way, you should be washing off all your equipment if you're going to be fishing another body of water. As these disease can live basically anywhere! In your waders, rods, reels, even the flies you're using! Banning felt soles alone isn't going to solve the issue at hand.
Personally, I would rather be using felt sole boots, then the rubber boots. I've used the rubber boots in rivers, at times it's like walking on a sheet of ice. Mix a strong current in with that, you could have a bad mix! I feel that felt soles give that extra NEEDED grip when fishing streams and rivers. Therefore, I'm not going to go trade them in for the rubber boots until I can validate that using Felt soles in Utah, HAVE BEEN BANNED. And I would like to see the documentation on it. Not an article saying they've been banned in other states, as I live and fish in Utah. Other states across the country don't concern me.
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http://wildlife.utah.gov/dwr/news/42-uta...river.html
Which specifically states:
"Don't use wading boots that have a felt sole. Felt-soled wading boots can pick up whirling disease spores and move them from one body of water to another. It's difficult to completely clean and disinfect felt-soled wading boots."
Fact is, all this is hearsay. Go into Cabelas and they try not to sell you a pair of felt sole boots and say it's illegal, when they still sale them??? As does everyone else in Utah so. If they're illegal, why are we selling them. That makes me think that they're not illegal and legally, I can use my brand new felt sole boots without getting a ticket.
I am not worried one bit about the transfer of diseases through using my wading boots as I usually fish the same waters and typically have a week or two in-between time. Plenty of time to kill off/destroy any of these diseases. If the time arises that I would be fishing another body of water, it's not hard to bring a bottle of mixed bleach/water and a tub and wash them off.
I've owned a boat for a few years now, the same rules apply for those, I'm not understanding what banning felt sole boots is going to accomplish in this seeing that either way, you should be washing off all your equipment if you're going to be fishing another body of water. As these disease can live basically anywhere! In your waders, rods, reels, even the flies you're using! Banning felt soles alone isn't going to solve the issue at hand.
Personally, I would rather be using felt sole boots, then the rubber boots. I've used the rubber boots in rivers, at times it's like walking on a sheet of ice. Mix a strong current in with that, you could have a bad mix! I feel that felt soles give that extra NEEDED grip when fishing streams and rivers. Therefore, I'm not going to go trade them in for the rubber boots until I can validate that using Felt soles in Utah, HAVE BEEN BANNED. And I would like to see the documentation on it. Not an article saying they've been banned in other states, as I live and fish in Utah. Other states across the country don't concern me.
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