Thanks Spyderman for your opinion. I'm definitely not getting another pair of baileys though. Mine have leaked for 5 of the 7 years I've owned them - Now days I'm an occasional fisherman, so I haven't really cared. I wouldn't be looking now, but a local shop is going out of business, so I can get the simms at a nice discount. I liked the comfort of the baileys, but I really hated the gravel guards. The would never stay down on my boots. Also, the pocket makes no difference to me as I never used the pocket on my baileys.

I'm mostly trying to figure out if the tradeoff of Gore-tex is worth it for a zippered front.

Jeff