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This Ain't Necessarily Fly Fishing => Gear Reviews => Topic started by: troutfanatic on August 14, 2015, 17:07:58 PM

Title: Orvis Silver Sonic "Guide" Waders
Post by: troutfanatic on August 14, 2015, 17:07:58 PM
I bought em last October. At a retail price of 395.00 you'd think they'd last a minute?
I used them less than a dozen times and they are leaking at the neoprene socks.
I found this out the hard way while shocking LeRoy on the Smith.
They go back to Roanoke next week. we'll see if customer service charges me for "repair" or if they agree that they are defective and replace them.
Title: Re: Orvis Silver Sonic "Guide" Waders
Post by: Woolly Bugger on August 14, 2015, 18:14:43 PM
Hope that works out , I though they had a sliding scale depending on age?
Title: Re: Orvis Silver Sonic "Guide" Waders
Post by: RiverbumCO on August 14, 2015, 18:33:48 PM
One day yall leRn.

Patagonia or LL Bean.
Title: Re: Orvis Silver Sonic "Guide" Waders
Post by: Al on August 14, 2015, 19:22:14 PM
Got mine about the same time and so far so good.

FYI - One of the barges/shocking units was leaking a lot of current into the water. It was the one with the cooler that had a lid on it and an elevated pushing rail in the rear.  I'd get a tingle every time I got within a couple feet of it. You'd get a real jolt if you reached in to retrieve a fish that had missed the cooler.  Mentioned it to one of the DGIF guys and he said the same thing and that they needed to make some adjustments when they got back to the shop.
Title: Re: Orvis Silver Sonic "Guide" Waders
Post by: RiverbumCO on August 15, 2015, 10:49:16 AM
Of those two id def go Redington zips.
Title: Re: Orvis Silver Sonic "Guide" Waders
Post by: bmadd on August 15, 2015, 12:27:32 PM
I love my Redingtons
Title: Re: Orvis Silver Sonic "Guide" Waders
Post by: bmadd on August 15, 2015, 16:40:53 PM
Mine are the cheap ones. Crosswater maybe? I love them, but I don't have to use them as much as y'all do in the mountains. But they have been abused when I do have to wear them.
Title: Re: Orvis Silver Sonic "Guide" Waders
Post by: Al on August 31, 2015, 19:07:04 PM
Yep - no surprise there!  'c; 'c; 'c;