I got lucky on a pair of Cabelas premiums a while back. A local fisheries field biologist swore by them, and my experience echoed his.

But the new ones don't seem to be made nearly as ruggedly as my at least 10 year old pair. Which just this year finally developed a small leak. I'd say there's something like 250 days of use in them, so it was money well spent. But that puts me in your wading boots - what to replace them with?