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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Dressing for ice fishing => Topic started by: Coachkwj on Feb 25, 2019, 07:05 PM
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Looking fo a lighter set of boots for warmer days. ( Getting too old) Saw a few reviews on Kamik boots and nearly all were good. Reasonably priced too.
Don't see any mention here. Anyone have any reviews?
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Have a pair for 16 years. Great boots.
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Make/Model boots your looking at might help members chime in ?
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My dad really likes his. Don't know what they are but they're rated to -50F. His feet seem to be warmer than mine when we go out together, so I've been considering then myself.
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Might want to consider cabelas. Snow runner pack boot 400 gram thinsolate ultra and breathable that's the best part.. I got the ones with standard laces.. they did when I bought mine they had a boa lace system.. witch had a steel cable for a lace.. i am glad I got mine with the stanard laces there fairly snug to putting on .. any how these are lighter then my kamik ice crushers and less sweety then the kamiks.. I like them way better then my kamik muck type boots too.
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warmer days = potential wet conditions, so make sure what you get is waterproof. I really like my Mucks, but after only 4 or 5 years, I can see having to replace them. Ive worn them hunting some, and I dont think they are really durable enough for that. I'll be watching the off season sales myself.
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I have a pair of Kamiks and won't even take them on the ice. I forget what model they are, but they leak water right in. Terrible boots.
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I have a pair of the Kamik Icebreaker work boots. I've never had any problems with water leaking in, even standing in close to a foot of water. They aren't the warmest boots in the world, I usually doubled up on socks and did alright on cold days, so if you want a cheap pair of decent boots for warmer days, they would be great.
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Icebreaker and Green Bay 4 are the ones I was looking at.
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There cheap boots! you buy too big they will ware out were your toes flex.. sooner or later all rubber boots do.. if you buy too big.. I think I paid $35 for my kamiks from gear core on sale when they were a sponsor of this site.. any how I like my personal choice is these snow runners from cabelas.. there made with same meterial as breathable waders just a heads up and there water proof.. I paid 59.99 for them and are the best boot yet.. I have had I had sorel's Canadian pack boots hodgemen pack boots kamik and the worst was a set of itaska pack boots I paId 39.99 for..I found the snow runners for 59.9o for a black friday sale but we're best boots ever owned thus far.. if your feet sweat the liners don't wick moisture away enough.. then rubber boot contains it in the liner on kamik boots.. and when you start sitting around your feet freeze.. I still have mine but don't use them any more cause I am not a active enough in them... i think there not as good as my cabelas snow runner boots if you ask me?
https://www.cabelas.com/product/footwear/mens-footwear/mens-pac-winter-boots/pc/104797980/c/104747580/sc/103959180/cabelas-snow-runner-winter-boots/749510.uts?slotId=2 (https://www.cabelas.com/product/footwear/mens-footwear/mens-pac-winter-boots/pc/104797980/c/104747580/sc/103959180/cabelas-snow-runner-winter-boots/749510.uts?slotId=2)
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I wouldn't trade my 30 year old Boundary Boots for anything but at my age they are just too darned heavy.
Just need to find a light waterproof warm pair that won't break the bank. Those Cabela's look good but probably too old to bend down and tie the laces.
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There cheap boots! you buy too big they will ware out were your toes flex.. sooner or later all rubber boots do.. if you buy too big.. I think I paid $35 for my kamiks from gear core on sale when they were a sponsor of this site.. any how I like my personal choice is these snow runners from cabelas.. there made with same meterial as breathable waders just a heads up and there water proof.. I paid 59.99 for them and are the best boot yet.. I have had I had sorel's Canadian pack boots hodgemen pack boots kamik and the worst was a set of itaska pack boots I paId 39.99 for..I found the snow runners for 59.9o for a black friday sale but we're best boots ever owned thus far.. if your feet sweat the liners don't wick moisture away enough.. then rubber boot contains it in the liner on kamik boots.. and when you start sitting around your feet freeze.. I still have mine but don't use them any more cause I am not a active enough in them... i think there not as good as my cabelas snow runner boots if you ask me?
https://www.cabelas.com/product/footwear/mens-footwear/mens-pac-winter-boots/pc/104797980/c/104747580/sc/103959180/cabelas-snow-runner-winter-boots/749510.uts?slotId=2 (https://www.cabelas.com/product/footwear/mens-footwear/mens-pac-winter-boots/pc/104797980/c/104747580/sc/103959180/cabelas-snow-runner-winter-boots/749510.uts?slotId=2)
I know it's not the intent of the post, but i also will not buy Itasca boots. My wife had some and the rubber was stiff and jagged inside, and cut her feet. We threw them away after one season (unfortunately we were too far past purchase to return them and they were so bad we didn't feel right donating them).
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I know it's not the intent of the post, but i also will not buy Itasca boots. My wife had some and the rubber was stiff and jagged inside, and cut her feet. We threw them away after one season (unfortunately we were too far past purchase to return them and they were so bad we didn't feel right donating them).
Same problem I had.. same thing i did.. threw the itasca boots away.