Keep Dry

Fly Fishing Murray's Fly Shop VA
A good raincoat is a must for a serious angler.

During the summer I do not use waders when floating or wading smallmouth rivers. However I always carry a raincoat in the back of my vest. If a heavy rain settles in all day and you become soaked for several hours you can get the chills. For example, recently five of us were floating seven miles on a smallmouth river in personal kick boats. Shortly into our float a heavy rain settled in on us. Only three of us has raincoats so for the next four hours the two who had no raincoats suffered badly.  Although the rest of us offered to share ours they would not take them. After this we made sure everyone had raincoats.