Simms Sells Again

[Rob Allen]

Gore-Tex is not going away, they are changing their formulation, been underway for several years. Will they be more expensive, of course, prices virtually always go up, rarely down.

Changing the formula = going away..

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

Changing the formula = going away..

 

[GAT]

Guess we can always go back to neoprene ....

 

[krusty]

I saw they come from Sweden. Does the Swedish Bikini team visit you after you buy the $ 1,600 wader?

No...you get an irritable male Swedish exchange student that refuses to bathe and eats all your food.

 

[Matt B]

I mean I like high performing breathable waders as much as the next guy but not at the cost of polluting ground and surface water with carcinogens that never break down.

 

[krusty]

I mean I like high performing breathable waders as much as the next guy but not at the cost of polluting ground and surface water with carcinogens that never break down.

I wouldn't worry about it...PFAS are so ubiquitous it won't matter a bit. Horse left the barn decades ago.

 

[Old406Kid]

It looks like waders should be the least of our worries.

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[krusty]

Plus it accumulates in sewage sludge (euphemistically called 'biosolids') which has been spread on agricultural lands by most cities for at least 50 years. PFAS concentrations in such sludge are completely unregulated. Crops uptake PFAS in sludge quite well...so yum!

 

[Peyton00]

If people are really concerned about things they put in their body, never go through a drive-thru, never order takeout and never piss off the chef.
That'll reduce your intake of chew spit, fecal matter and snot rockets. etc.

 

[krusty]

If people are really concerned about things they put in their body, never go through a drive-thru, never order takeout and never piss off the chef.
That'll reduce your intake of chew spit, fecal matter and snot rockets. etc.

Ya forgot rodent turds.

 

[Peyton00]

Ya forgot rodent turds.

That is already well established in all your grains by the FDA.

 

[iveofione]

The Shack Nasty's draw ever closer......

 

[Mossback]

 

[Matt B]

I wouldn't worry about it...PFAS are so ubiquitous it won't matter a bit. Horse left the barn decades ago.

I am working on learning to stop worrying and love the bomb.

 

[RCF]

I am working on learning to stop worrying and love the bomb.

Are you worrying about working on learning to stop worrying?

 

[Matt B]

Are you worrying about working on learning to stop worrying?

Of course! But I'm working on that, too. It's the popular postmodern cycle of doom.

 

[Roper]

At my age is the easiest thing to do is to buy a couple extra pairs of Reddington waist highs…

 

[RCF]

At my age the easiest thing to do is wet wade. Avoids issues in trying to put waders on and then taking them off. Also avoids worrying about leaks. If it is too cold, find warmer water/weather.

 

[_WW_]

Guess we can always go back to neoprene ....

Still have a pair of Bare's.

 

[Merle]

Still have a pair of Bare's.

The blue ones with the neoprene and Velcro shoulder straps? I rocked a pair of those for many years, but they finally gave up the ghost.

They were pretty dope waders at the time (early-mid 90’s)