[jyl]

We have Patagonia/Danner wading boots with soft rubber soles. On slimy, mossy rocks, studs help a lot. The problem with studs is you can’t wear the boots indoors, in a boat, etc - or at least not without getting people mad. We need a plastic stud of some kind. My old wading boots have felt soles. I think those are more effective in the stream but not as good when hiking to the stream. I only recently heard about the invasive species thing.

There’s a few places open for trout, not many, more open for steelhead. As a practical matter, we’re just teaching her to cast because the chances of us catching steelhead are zero. I did hook something kind of sizeable yesterday but never saw it before it threw the hook.