So I took my new Orvis Pro Approach Shoes out with me for my trip to Montana. I planned on using them for wet wadding, in the boats and jumping out along the rivers.
My short term review after a week is they are good, but I needed some socks to wear while I had them on during the day. The first day I went wet wadding with no socks for what I was planning a short afternoon of fishing. I didn't plan on going far, but I screwed up and started hiking up the river catching fish. The fishing was the good part. On the way back I could feel my heals and inner soles of my feet blistering up on my walk back down the road. The last 100 yards I looked like on idiot hobbling along trying not to make the blisters worse.
So after some bandaids and my alpaca socks I brought for the trip things went better when I jumped into the boat. My feet, socks and shoes got wet, but the socks made it a lot easier. My feet were wet all day in the socks, but not soaking wet. I should have worn those the first day.
We did some more stops while in the boats and jumped out into the Clark Fork to fish several times. They worked out well. Like the first day, very good support, and easy to walk over the rocky bottom.