Felt Sole Ban

[jmako]

Does anybody have a list of states that do not allow felt sole wading boots? (Most of what I can find with Google seem to out of date.)

[ScottP]

http://www.stopans.org/feltregulations.html

This one's dated 2014; haven't heard of any other states implementing the ban.

Regards,
Scott

[jmako]

Thanks ScottP.

[krauseb]

The felt sole ban is silly, anything that felt soles can pick up can also be picked up on laces, inside the boots and on the waders.
I fished in Chile and they had barrels to dip your boots in when you come off the water to kill anything you might have picked up.
Bob.

[Ed_D]

Those barrels will never be popular at my local bars...

Ed

[NJTroutbum]

I noticed a dropoff on the issue with manufacturers.

[Byron haugh]

Ed,
There is a cleaning station at the parking lot at the head of The Ranch on the Henry's Fork.
There is also one right outside the TroutHunter Bar and Restaurant/lodge right on the Henry's Fork in Island Park, ID.

Here's, perhaps, an interesting tidbit. When I returned to the US from fishing in the Patagonia region of Chile, they ask you prior to entry (on the customs form) if you have walked in fields where animals were grazing - on your trip.
I checked "yes" as I had walked across cattle fields to fish. I was sent to a section of Customs in which they had me remove my boots from my suitcase and they washed and scrubbed them and then gave them back to me.........

[Ed_D]

Byron, let's review Ed's (obviously failed) attempt at humor. The barrels "kill anything you might have picked up". The allusion to bars was that barrels which kill what you try to pick up in bars are not likely to be popular. Sorry for the poor attempt at a joke.
(Another would-be hijacker goes down in flames...)


Regards,
Ed

[jmako]

Byron, I think what customs was doing had to do with cattle hoof-and-mouth decease. I remember being at a dairy when I was young and a group from South America was there to tour it. The Vet there would not let them in.

[Byron haugh]

Understand that is probably what they were concerned about. It is just that it is an example of a fairly well accepted means of trying to stop the spread of diseases/infestation of invasive organisms.............much like similar efforts on some of our rivers.......