On 1/25/06 9:23 AM, in article , "riverman"
wrote:

OK, never having owned a fishing raincoat, I have a really stupid question.
Do you wear it under or over your gear vest? I can imagine not wanting to
get the vest and all that gear wet, but I can also imagine not being able to
get access to all that gear either.

Or do you buy one loose enough to wear either way? That would make for one
very baggy jacket, imho.
--riverman

I've worn my wading jacket both ways- over and under- and it just depends on
what I'm wearing it for. If it is raining and raining hard, I obviously
wear it over the vest- or just take what I think I'll need out of the vest
and put them in the jacket. This September when we were on the Au Sable, it
drizzled the whole first day out and I was glad to have the jacket over the
vest to keep things dry.

If I'm wearing it for warmth, as I did this past Sunday (brrr!) when it
wasn't raining or snowing, I just pulled the vest on over the jacket.

It gets a bit bulky when I've got- in cold weather- several layers of
Capilene and fleece, the vest and the jacket, but in spring rain conditions
(errr, think Penns :-) everything fits just fine under the jacket, vest
included.

Note that my body cavity doesn't take up as much space as does the body
cavities of some other ROFFians, but the above works for me. :-)

Bill