The waders are already in the truck, if I got sand all over the house wifey would kick my buttocks!
Although, I didn't used to wear waders at all (in the summer) until after college. I'd just wear an old pair of tennis shoes and let my legs go numb (57 deg water). The streams I fish have some heavy current and I actually had to sort of swim in a few spots which is fine in shoes buy pretty dangerous in waders.
That all ended when I moved to Wisconsin. I got off one stream late in the evening (20 miles from anywhere and 40 miles from home) and brushed the muck off my legs. Several spots of muck didn't come off ... wait a minute ... GAAAA!! LEACHES!!!!
Don't get me wrong, I'm a gunpowder-sniffin', truck-drivin' manly-man but I did a little girly dance trying to get those buggers off me. I was able to just pull all of them off except this one big sucker. As I pulled the skin on my leg just stretched. I didn't have any salt, matches or a lighter and nothing I had with me had any effect but I was NOT going to drive to civilization with that Faustian nightmare sucking my blood the whole way.
I had a lot of my field tools including some alligator clips and my set of jumper cables. I grounded him at one end and stretched him as far as he'd go ... then I
carefully tapped him with a probe hooked up to the hot and he let go in a hurry.
While were on the subject if you remove a leach from your body and he's full of blood be careful how much you hit him with the fire. Once I took one off and proceeded to toast him. The blood inside started to boil and he swelled up then exploded like a firecracker. Ewww.
