Who in the crud wants to wade with water over the shoulder, with "very little" water getting in? I'm baffled, recently there was a thread about a Baytown boat dock, a new boat and a yuppy with his children & no life vests......... Now this, what the hay

 

If I'm wading shoulder deep, something has gone wrong.

 

Just wait until you hit a blowout hole - then you will understand.

 

Excellent point, for some reason I thought you were intentionally wading that deep.

 

I've always wondered the same thing. It's just added protection if something bad happens. I can't talk too much bc I wore my jacket inside my waders for years until I got edumacated

 

I wade without waders. Way to hot in the summers to worry about jackets and waders...hehe

 

this way will also keep you dry fishing in the rain, I dont think he is talking about wading shoulder deep.

 

No correct way

To me it depends on the situation. If its not raining and if I might be wading waste deep, at times I will keep my jacket inside. One less thing to clean and wash after a trip.

Definitely not a situation to say someone is doing it the wrong way.

 

Yes that is the only way you should wear waders and a jacket. Me and a buddy were wading a shoreline last Jan waist deep and I had my jacket like above and my buddy had it inside. Long story short he followed me into a shoulder deep hole. I was still dry and he was wet and cold.

 

Not that I go shoulder deep on purpose - but have ended up that deep on several occasions.

Hitting blow out holes - the hole dug out when a boat gets on plane. They are tough because the sides are steep and the hole itself fills with a fine silt so you don't know the hole is there.

A couple of times waded through drains that were a lot deeper than I thought.

There is of course that unforeseen rough wave from a ship or a barge.

Then there are the unplanned falls - where you go to your knees. Happens to the best of us even when we are careful.

Once happened across an old piling after Ike and I decided in my poor judgement to step over it. There was a 4 ft washout on the other side. I went from knee deep to upside down in a heart beat. Came up with only a small trickle going down my waders. I learned - I walk around obsticles now, no matter how inicent they look.

 

Fish nekit ... problem solved.

 

uh i don't care how they wear em if they paid for em

 

Tough crowd in here.

 

Don't forget about that unexpected wave that hits you in the back. Usually can tell who the posers are by the way they dress in work or play clothes. Tags on the back of the coller, cap or sleeve mean they haven't been at it long.:headknock
Guided a couple docs and their sales rep 20 years ago on an afternoon duck hunt with rain blowing sideways. Sales rep comes out ready for the hunt with his borrowed rain gear tucked into his borrowed hip boots. I gigged the oldest doc and he suggested the rep untuck his rain pants lest he drown inside the blind.

 

I've waded shorelines in the winter with waves breaking almost over the shoulder. The jacket is worn outside not tucked inside the waders, and I ALWAYS wear an auto-inflatable when running the boat from spot to spot.

 

Interesting that this would even be up for debate. It's pretty simple, wearing it outside vs. inside can be the difference between life and death. For those of you that set bad examples, when your friend, family member, or whoever you fish with drowns, that's on you. Sorry for the aggressive stance on this, but it should be taken seriously. I equate this to someone taking my kids out on a boat and telling them they don't need a life jacket, it's wrong and dangerous. I hope someone reads this, changes their ways and it saves their life.
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I'm waiting for the day one of us wades off in one of those "man holes" down south and the jacket keeps our waders from completely filling up. I distinctly recall a trip with Peterek where we were standing chest deep catching fish with waves breaking over our backs. The only thing keeping water out of our waders was our Jackets and hoods over our heads. That was a heck of a cold front!

 

Thanks for trying to help grman, there are some that simply don't think about stuff like this (I have two teenage boys, believe me they don't think about much at all lol).

As for me, I don't have a wading jacket so I wear pink panties under the breathable waders.

 

Even if I don't have a jacket on I always cinch my belt up snug. Gives you a little more protection in case you step in a hole. Plus it keeps my belly in and looks good!