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Thanks for the update Jimbo.
Wiscoy
Always hated the BOA lacing system, hard a hard time getting the laces to open up enough to get my feet in the boots. The only pair I had with that system, I cut off the BOA lace and replaced with conventional laces, but hey if they work for you great. With the new soles, would suggest that you take the felt ones to a shoe maker and have him sew the felt to the plastic base so that the felt will not come off.
Ron
Interesting, I have had the post loosen up (used shoe goo) but was able to glue it back in position. I guess will check mine. Did they say was common problem? Ask because in the 10 years of using Korker’s never had that problem and wondered if it was a new problem.
What happened to the original pair?
Wiscoy
503 has been fine for wading, with a number of additional locations now accessible. Agree with jtmorr that trying to wade upstream against these flows is tough and not surprised he skipped leg day at the gym.
Wiscoy
I have been using studded felt on the Guadalupe for a number of years without incident. On my rubber soled boots have installed Goat Head studs, which have also worked well. https://www.goatheadgear.com/collections/sole-spikes
Wiscoy
The high flows we currently have are similar to the flows in the Madison and many other rivers out west. Just use your time on the Guadalupe right now to hone your skills for fishing big waters. I also enjoy fishing the river when flows are lower (~200cfs is perfect), but if putting up with current conditions allows for maintaining pool so we get to fish all summer with 150cfs flows, then am all for it. Only drawback will be the huge number of tubers, but the river is everyone’s resource so will just grin and bear it.
Based on current in/out flow will be at least 2+ weeks before we reach pool and flows get lowered much more unless we get more rain, then all bets are off.
Wiscoy
So according to the GBRA post flow was suppose to be reduced to ~700cfs, but this morning is still 834cfs anybody know why it is still so high? Since inflow is down to 489cfs would have thought that could reduce to at least the mid 500’s. 834 is still too high to wade safely and with the ~100cfs of uncounted flow at the Sattler gauge from the smaller streams entering the river is really more like 934cfs.
Wiscoy
Lets hope they reduce the outflow quickly – just checked and is at 1380cfs – at current inflow/outflow differences will hit 909 in 5 days.
Wiscoy
Seems to be going in the wrong direction – Corps site says flow to be 1504 cfs
Wiscoy
Was at Maricopa yesterday and with the high flows the area usually used for box placement is in water that is going to be challenging to say the least. Not sure if there is any alternative spot you could use or maybe you can wait until flow goes down some – I guess this depends on when eggs arrive -, but be careful out there.
Wiscoy
I used Goat Head sole spikes on my rubber Korkers soles and they work great (https://www.goatheadgear.com/pages/sole-spikes).
Just one thing to remember about aluminum on wading boots is that initially is very slippery. I have a pair of Patagonia’s with the aluminum bars and was advised to walk around on the street and scuff up the bars before using them to provide additional traction. Once scuffed up have worked well and have used them out west many times without incident, but first time I tried them in the Guadalupe took a swim after slipping on the bed rock – seem to work best on streams with gravel type bottoms.
Wiscoy
Welcome to the wonderful world of fly fishing :-), it appears that you have learned the first lesson that it is harder than it looks. While both Jimbo and Alex have provided you with good advice the one word they have implied but not said is “presentation”. All the tips they provided deal with fly presentation which usually is the key to catching fish on the Guadalupe. I would suggest that you pickup a good book on trout fishing tactics that addresses both rigging your fly and how to properly present it. One of the best books that I found on presentation that helped me was Slack Line Strategies for Fly Fishing, by John Judy; and to understand how current affects your fly would suggest moving Water, by Jason Randall. Randall provides an in depth explanation of how stream currents, both on the surface and below, affect presentation of the fly and provides suggestions on how to improve your catch rate. Good luck and will see you on the river.
Wiscoy
I have used Korkers for the last 10 years without any problems. My preference is the felt studded soles. So I can use the rubber soles that come with these boots in areas where felt is banned, I added 3/8″ long metals studs from Goat Head (https://www.goatheadgear.com/) and they work great. In addition, since Korkers soles are removable you can take the felt ones to a shoemaker and he can sew the felt onto the plastic sole and the felt will never come off. This can also be done to repair felt soles that have come loose instead of trying to re-glue.
My guess is Simms does not use this approach because Korkers has a patent on their product.
Wiscoy
When the rate was increased to ~750cfs, the water speed was ~0.63 mph leaving the dam. Therefore, since Maricopa is ~ 1.3 miles down stream from the dam it would have taken ~ 2 hours for the full effect of the wave of water to reach this site. You can see from this number that the water moves pretty fast and the hourly updates from USGS Sattler site do not provide a time sensitive reading — since rate increase does not go instantly to 750, but is slowly increased. Therefore, once alerted that there is going to be a flow increase extreme care should be exercised when wade fishing, be safe out there.
Wiscoy
