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For fresh water hunting how many use waders?

Why are weights so scary? No you can't swim with 25 pounds of weight when swimming in just your trunks. I use 32 lbs when diving with the wetsuit. The weight belt is the last thing to go on and it is attached with a quick release buckle that's easily pulled even with wetsuit gloves on. You dump it and go to the top. Much better to use a buoyancy compensator but when all else fails, jettison the weight belt. You'd need a lot less than 32 lbs when wading just chest deep. The weight is to compensate for the natural buoyancy of the air impregnated wet suit. You only wear enough wait to hold your feet comfortably to the bottom. It should feel just like when you are wading with hip boots. Neutral buoyancy or maybe just a tad heavy so when you push the digger into the bottom your not so light that you get pushed backwards. The only problem is the weight belt is uncomfortable to me wrapped around my waist. Tried to solve it with the soft flexible belt that holds lead shot bags. Haven't been in the water with it yet. Jim
 
I wear a farmer John wetsuit bottoms and wet suit boots (hard sole ) for the shards of glass I ocasionaly find. If I was doing the wader thing, I would have a mustang inflatable with me. yank the lanyard and you is safe unless you forgot to put in the co2 cartridge in case its darwin awards for you.
 
Hi Ron, I use waders here at Houghton Lake for several reasons and yes it does extend the season. I start out just after the ice is gone off the lake by using waders and dressing in layers one can get in the water before others...I get a lot of tourists up here bringing their detectors so extending the season on both ends helps. I went 3 days in the summer without waders...the water was like being in a bathtub. Didn't get much as I was cleaning an area for a local hotel. What I did get.....Swimmer's Itch!!!

I cannot see me ever going in the lake, even in the middle of summer without the waders now. BTW if you ever get Swimmer's Itch....get Fels Naptha soap as it helps stop the itching. Be sure ALWAYS to dry yourself off if in the water without waders. Had the Swimmer's Itch gone an inch higher...well...let's say they might as well have shot me to put me out of my misery...even at that it was not a happy situation at all.

If there are weeds, ducks in an area,,,,wear waders. The Swimmer's Itch is a cycle thing between ducks and snails...and snails are in the weeds and ducks love the weeds. Probably ok in most sandy bathing areas but be careful in those weedy areas.

HH Ron
 
Hope all is well and soon we all can get back out detecting. HH Steve
 
wonder if there is a steel shank in them...have to dig them out. My major concern with waders is steping into a drop off...but I have now added an inflatible life vest (C02 cartridge) just in case. Don't want to be a statistic...plus I stick to where I can see the bottom at all times.

Thanks for the food for thought will check into that shank thing on my waders.
HH
 
Pete,one of the main reasons I would like to use waders is to keep out of the contaminated water.One lake I was in a couple of seasons ago near Holly MI smelt like a sewer after the bottom was stirred up.I have heard of water hunters and swimmers getting various ailments being exposed to the right bacteria.Thanks
 
Been wearing waders off and on for about 25 years in all kinds of water. Heard the entire time about how they will kill you, but never did care enough to look into the 'danger'. The wife got all curious and looked it up. She did find a fellow in missouri that flipped his boat and drowned, but they think the boat cracked him in the head first. As a kid fishing in NE Texas use to flood my waders on purpose to cool down. So what Iam hearing is that if my waders fill with water...the water will suddenly become much heavier than the water around me and drag me straight to the bottom? Or maybe I fall over and my waders transform themselves into a parachute pulling my now lifeless body into the deep? Or the best one...you through some act of God manage to flip your float tube, filling your waders with air as you flip upside down leaving you suspended upside down feet stuck in your tube and waders full of air. First off I never have been able to find some extra heavy water to kill myself with, but you might like it if I did. Parachute! Do NOT swim upstream when you fall in and you will not make a parachute. At the beach do NOT attempt to swim out to sea the waves will create resistance and make you tired. Swim towards shore! Probably not safe though since you will be drug into the abyss by the above mentioned waves. Float tube death...now it happens. First you gotta climb out of your tube and lean towards the water almost till your nose touches the water being carefull to keep a leg hooked or you will slip outta the tube (ruining your drowning experiment). Now kick hard with the unhooked leg while violently lunging face first into the water. If you try enough times the tube will easily flip. Or fall backwards outta the tube. Ok now our fins have become tangled in the float tube! You are a dead man, but hold on a second...the float tube is not dragging you to the bottom. Look at the videos on youtube...its all just silly.
Doug in OR
 
When it is really cold I wear neoprene waders with the top to my farmer John wet suit on top of them. Really warm and no danger of filling the waders up. Probably not drown anyway, but if you get water in your waders after Labor Day in MN you are going to be chilly. Neoprene gloves are a plus too, but are clumsy and wear out fast if they are not well made.
 
Doug,by the way I did buy a pair of waders hypothermia is bad and bacteria from being exposed in water too long.I will take a all of the precautions.My wife took out an extra insurance policy on me just in case if some of the guys are right.Thanks for the information
 
I went in with my jeans yesterday, I just put my surf shoes on and just went in, wallet and car keys still in the pocket. Glad I did, I found a ring (In finium forum)!
 
If you are worried in waders you can get one of these. Just keep it inside the waders. I fish in a belly boat with waders and wear one in case the belly boat ever gets a hole. I can end up far from shore at times. They are not very restrictive at all.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/index/index-display.jsp?id=cat601114&navAction=jump&navCount=1&cmCat=MainCatcat21276&parentType=category&parentId=cat21276
 
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