I went through this in Vermont this year. Here it makes sense because it is all fresh water and we do have rock snot spreading. But they only gave us about 11 months notice. I looked around for ways to convert my felts to studs. No one did it around here and if you sent them away it was expensive. My buddy ground the felts off his and slipped on yak tracks. He lost them in a muddy river patch. Think about the cost....me and my son each wear chest waders in spring and fall and hippers in the summer. We both got new stocking foot chest waders ( about $250 each) with outer "eco boots" (about $125 each pair) and stocking foot hippers (about $140 each). That's over $1,000. It was a huge hit and It still hurts.
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