What do y'all wear? Sometimes more is not always better until you walk past the level of your hip boots which I have been guilty of too many times. Be more careful or just suck it up and wear chest waders?
Thanks

I wear Hippers as much as possible for the comfort and ease of movement. Usually you pull up on your pants to sit down, with Chesters, you have to pull down for room in the knees. If water depth is unknown, Hippers are a craps shoot. I always carry a razor sharp folding knife when in Chesters so I can get them off in an emergency. Get waders with the canvas outer, they are so much more resistant to cutting and tears. Wet rubber cuts like butter. I treat them with Armour All, Inside and Out when brand new, and several times during their life, really helps them last. Store them hanging in a cool dark enviornment

Chest waders if you are setting the den entrances before freeze up.(beaver trapping)
I wear hip waders on the line in fall a fair bit mostly to keep the legs dry when walking in the wet bush or for bank or dam setting.

Look for waist high boots, called mudders in this area, by the fishing supplies The hip boots are an inch to short so it looks like you Ped your pants And that water is cold They look like cut down chest waders

I carry a pair of hippers in the truck, but I probably only use them one in 5 jobs. I wear knee high boots almost all the time. I did have the hippers on last job before we got a thin ice and had to put everything on pause. But the only reason I wore them was because I needed to get across the creek and knee boots would not get me across the deepest part. Usually I cross the dam, but a farmer dug the corner of the dam out and dug a 4 foot deep hole, so I had to cross upstream a ways.

Over the years, I just used hip boots less and less in my work, with most of my work done at the waters edge. When it gets deep enough that I would need chest waders, I just bring a canoe. I definitely want hip boots in the truck, just dont put them on very often. And don’t even carry chest waders anymore.

i wear chest waders too set traps and usually wear hip boots afterwards unless i know the water is to deep

Chest waders mostly, knee high to check if shallow enough. I don't have any hip waders.

No joke during Salmon season I stopped wearing boots and just started wearing swim trunks.

But for the matter of hip boots I've never seen the point, if you're going to bother getting something more than boots why not go all the way to chest waders. Whatever you want to reach will always be two inches deeper than whatever you're wearing though.

That has happened to me more times than I can count. I'll stick with my chest waders. Salmon fishing in a speedo is kind of risky in bear country........lol

I need both. Hip boots are easier to run around in. But the beaver usually make deep water runs so I need chest waders there.

Have and use both hips and chest use depends on on conditions hipsters for known shallow Chesties for deep and unknown

Hip boots are for getting wet from the waist down. Waders are for when you want to get wet all over.

I need to get some waders but i have a problem im 5’8 260lbs 2014 i got hurt pretty bad piece if steel fell on me broke my ankle and smashed my leg. Well my ankle is good but my calf swoll up from the injury and never went back down so now i can wear cowboy boots no more cuz my calf is so big which means the same deal with waders does anybody have in suggestions or ideas where i can get waders or something else. Thx hillbilly

Hip boots. My thought has always been, if I have to put on chest waders, I'm some place I shouldn't be.

Switched back to waders...easier on my feet.

I've always worn hip boots for trapping. I have chest waders but wear them rarely, fishing mostly or duck hunting. I rarely ever find myself in a trapping situation where I feel the need for chest waders.

I was doing a beaver demo many years ago when a young trapper asked me why I wore hip boots rather than chest waders. I told him because with hip boots I only get wet from the crotch down. With chest waders I get wet from the armpits down. Seems like which ever I wear I feel compelled to be working within a fraction on an inch from the top.

Contact Hodgman waders co, they will or used to make waders for a custom fit. Get the kind with the canvas outer skin, they will hold up against beaver staubs or ? a lot better than the rubber. Make sure to allow plenty of room for extra laundry for warmth.