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    Default boot laces coming undone?

    If you are troubled by your bootlaces coming undone (usually at a very inopportune time) try this. It is a tip I learned from a guide in Maine

    Do NOT tie a double bow--we do not have enough time or energy left at the end of the day to try to get that double knot undone nor enough fingernails and usually we do not have a fork around the back of the car to help.

    Instead simply go around the loop that you have created in the lace TWICE and tie it down. Lasts all day without coming undone and even when wet will come undone just by pulling on the free end of the lace.

    I promise it works--something this simple has to!!

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    Cool.
    I was really getting tired of those darned "Kid Knots." They never held anyway. Wrapping them up in the gravel guard helped, but not always.
    Thanks for the tip.
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    I have fallen down for the last time..

    Thanks also for the tip!


    Steve
    Relaxed and now a Full Time Trout Bum, Est. 2024

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    I tie a regular knot then cover it with the gravel guard, they never come undone.
    The man who coined the phrase "Money can't buy happiness", never bought himself a good fly rod!

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    I just tie a single and then wrap the loops into the laces in the boot. Never comes undone. But thanks for the tip!

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    The only time I had trouble untying the double bow I've been using for thirty years was when it was 15 below zero. And I couldn't bend over without breaking the waders anyway. *S*

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    Default Wading shoes

    I just bought a new pair os Sims boots and I missed my Choata Pull laces. The pull strings really work good ImHO.

    JAD
    Fish like predator.

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    I pefer UV Knot Sense


    j/k, i double knot mine, tuck em in the gravel guard and forget about em.
    Joe


    uhh...nevermind

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    You guys actually TIE your boot laces????

    I thought it was much more stylish to leave the laces undone and hanging loose!!!!

    Another fashion faux paux at the trout stream.

    I am SO embarassed!

    Good Luck!

    Buddy
    It Just Doesn't Matter....

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    dmdmd,

    I've been tying my shoes like this for 50 years. The lady across the street when I was 5 showed my how and I've been doing it ever since. I've shown it to hundreds of people and you are the first person I have ever known that knows about it (besides the lady across the street!!). My shoes very, very rarely come undone. This knot works great!!

    Jeff
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