12-05-2004, 01:09 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Battery heated sox? Don't want to spoil her. Next thing you know she will want waders too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I gotta admit that I was beginning to feel the chill a bit myself. I left my good wool socks at home in my ice fishing boots, so I wouldn't forget them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have fished pre-iceup and same day iceout water before. Sometimes some of the best fishing you can ask for. I have tried the battery warmed socks and got blisters from the extra wiring, etc. Not only that, they only last a little while. I have found that it is just as good to wear larger waders, to allow an extra layer of warming wool, and larger boots and fins to keep from getting constriction. If you do it right, you stay comfy. Do it wrong and you need to get out and do the "tubers' stomp dance" to get the circulation back in your tootsies.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Over the years I have had to put up with a lot of flak from boaters when I have been out tubing in cold water. I usually make the point that I am in water that is still above freezing, while they are standing on the deck of a boat in temps that put ice in their guides. My point...I am usually warmer than they are.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Hey Bee Man, when we gonna hook up somewhere?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I gotta admit that I was beginning to feel the chill a bit myself. I left my good wool socks at home in my ice fishing boots, so I wouldn't forget them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have fished pre-iceup and same day iceout water before. Sometimes some of the best fishing you can ask for. I have tried the battery warmed socks and got blisters from the extra wiring, etc. Not only that, they only last a little while. I have found that it is just as good to wear larger waders, to allow an extra layer of warming wool, and larger boots and fins to keep from getting constriction. If you do it right, you stay comfy. Do it wrong and you need to get out and do the "tubers' stomp dance" to get the circulation back in your tootsies.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Over the years I have had to put up with a lot of flak from boaters when I have been out tubing in cold water. I usually make the point that I am in water that is still above freezing, while they are standing on the deck of a boat in temps that put ice in their guides. My point...I am usually warmer than they are.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Hey Bee Man, when we gonna hook up somewhere?[/#0000ff]
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