ok thanks guys! i'll be going with the muck boots then. I've got some other rubber insulated boots from a army navy store and had them for a year or two and they started to crack and the bottom actually started peeling/cracking right off the boot itself. pieces of junk. But any certain model of boot i should use??? And Psylocide, 400 gram wouldn't be nearly enough for the conditions i go out in. Thanks though!