CoalCracker,
Sorry for my slow response and thank you for your suggestion. I have taken your advice and now have the Patagonia Rock Grips. I saved a few bucks ordering them through Sierra Trading Post. I'm surprised that no one else had any suggestions about wading boots - guess no one is into wading . . . .
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"We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues! I see that the world is rotten because of silence!"
St. Catherine of Sienna