Because I hear the anguished cries of my angling brethren – some of whom apparently can’t wade across a wet gutter without falling down – I offer up what has to be the ultimate wading boots: The Kayland Ice Dragon Ice Climbing Boots.

Ice Dragon Boots

Slip while wading in these bad boys, and there's simply no hope for you...

If you can’t make it across the McCloud wearing Ice Dragon ice climbing boots, you don’t need better wading boots, you need that personal anti-gravity device Popular Mechanics promised us so many years ago.

See you on tippy-toes, Tom Chandler.