I've made the change over the the Chota's to the Korkers.

Let me start off by saying that I really liked my Chota boots as far as comfort and traction goes as long as you are on rocks. The problem that I found with them was durability. Evidently a few years back they had a problem with them which caused the entire sole to come off (not just the felt). Every fly shop in town has told me about this (I already owned them at this point) and has said that Chota has since fixed the problem. Strange thing is that the people at Chota say that they have never had a problem. Figure that.

Like I said I have both the Chotas and the Korkers. I picked up the Korkers because I often times fish lakes and rivers that have a sand or mud banks and bottoms and I like the extra traction that a lug sole gives you. In addition, I often times need to walk quite a ways to get to my fishing holes and the lugs seem to do better on the trail and will last a whole lot longer. Get to the site and swap out the lugs for the felt.