Pat,
I can't help with a fix but I can help with prevention. Buy fleece socks big enough to pull over your neoprene stocking foots and let them take the wear and tear. Also rinse your boots with the garden hose after every trip if you can.
After a days fishing, I ALWAYS rinse my boots when I get home, something that's not always possible on a road or destination trip. I wonder, @Shad, are you using gravel guards and what's the condition of the inside of your boots? Good luck!
That's the same question the guy at Redington asked me when my first set failed after about 8 months. I have since learned to wear good socks (I wore a lot of crappy, cotton socks in the past, because I figured there was no point in wearing good socks in waders you expect to leak eventually, but I figured out the worn, exposed threads were rubbing on my stockingfeet and causing them to wear out sooner).
I have never gotten any results using the rubbing alcohol spray method, and I've really worked at it!
I don’t know where you live but my loving wife bought me some great socks but for the most part I don’t use them. If your close I will give you a pair that has been setting in my sock draw for at least 20 years. Let me know.
Yea...I started about 30 years ago. First because I was fishing some spots which required standing in swirling sandy bottomed back eddies and started to notice a little wear in the feat of my Bare waders from all the sand infiltration. A pair of fleece socks should last several years. They don't stretch, can be wrung practically dry like all fleece and as a bonus your feet slide into your boots like they've been greased.
