Jennie@ifish
04-04-2003, 06:45 AM
I've had it happen so many times that it has become frustrating. I get cold, out on the Columbia, or out on Tillamook Bay, or during steelhead season, when ice hangs off the overhanging branches of the North Fork of the Nehalem. I glance down, and expect my casting hand to look the same way.
It can ruin a trip, or at the very least, make it uncomfortable.
That known, you can imagine what a relief it is to know that I am over that! Done! Won't happen again! And it's all thanks to USIA gear! (http://www.usia.com/thermal_wear.htm) !
I've always been a fleece nut. Not just any fleece, but you know, the quality fleece you feel on some articles of clothing at specialty stores.
The thickest, the softest, the most expensive fleece of all fleeces! I've been known to hold it up to my face, just to feel how soft it is! It's true. It's like your best teddy bear!
You can imagine, then, how incredible it felt to try on my first Exotherm 1. Sixteen ounce fleece covering my whole body! I was told, when I put it on, to wear very little underneath while wearing my dry suit, as moisture will be looking for a place to escape.
I'm finding it hard, at times, to look forward to summer, because I know I won't need to wear this as often. The cold temperatures of this week have been a delight to me. A perfect excuse to wear these, 24/7!
http://www.ifish.net/exo1lyn.jpg
Even if you don't fish. Even if you don't expose yourself to the cold temperatures of the outdoors much, I feel that everybody should have a pair of these! Just to wear around the house, if nothing else!
But take it one step further. Say you are an out of doors type, and you need more protection than even the Exotherm One provides. With the comfort and warmth of the Exotherm One, add a wind and water resistant shell, and you have the Exotherm Two!
http://www.ifish.net/exo2a.jpg
Exotherm II ( right ) is a 16 oz fleece one piece jumpsuit with water and wind resistant outer shell, hand warmer pockets, inside breast pocket wind guard, knit stretch panel across the upper back, with foot and thumb loops. Order is all black or with color accents.
The Exotherm Two is designed to fit under my dry waders, and my wet waders, and the same, warm and soft fleece lay against my skin.
No more shuffling for which is the warmest sweater, or how many layers of turtle necks I need. One suit, I'm done!
It's really incredible stuff. When I'm home, lounging around after a long day on the Columbia, like yesterday, I wear the Exotherm one. Kilchis thinks I am a teddy bear, and tries to attack me!
Yesterday I put the Thermolux Two to the test, out on the Columbia, with Pete Morris, Bill Hedlund, and Bill Snyder. They are all witnesses! I didn't shiver once! It hailed, it rained, it blew sideways, and I smiled through the entire day!
Yes, the proper fishing gear is important to a successful day on the river. The right rods, the right lures, and tight lines... But I'm convinced, and surely you will be too, that the proper dress is the one most important piece of gear, if you want to stay at it as long I do!
Exotherm and Thermolux is the key to enjoying my sport during the worst of weather. Funny how it happens, but it is indeed, in the worst of weather, that I've found the most success in my fishing.
If your wife is a fair weather fisher woman, try her in a pair of these! It's amazing, the difference it wil make!
-- But make sure you get a pair for yourself. It would be very unfortunate, (and somewhat embarrassing) if during the hot bite, you froze out before she did. :wink:
Visit USIA here! (http://usia.com)
Beleive me. Ask Pete! I stood out in the rain, and it didn't even affect me at all! He had to tell me to get off the deck, and under cover, so that he could see his rod! :smile:
[ 04-04-2003, 06:49 AM: Message edited by: Jennie@ifish ]
It can ruin a trip, or at the very least, make it uncomfortable.
That known, you can imagine what a relief it is to know that I am over that! Done! Won't happen again! And it's all thanks to USIA gear! (http://www.usia.com/thermal_wear.htm) !
I've always been a fleece nut. Not just any fleece, but you know, the quality fleece you feel on some articles of clothing at specialty stores.
The thickest, the softest, the most expensive fleece of all fleeces! I've been known to hold it up to my face, just to feel how soft it is! It's true. It's like your best teddy bear!
You can imagine, then, how incredible it felt to try on my first Exotherm 1. Sixteen ounce fleece covering my whole body! I was told, when I put it on, to wear very little underneath while wearing my dry suit, as moisture will be looking for a place to escape.
I'm finding it hard, at times, to look forward to summer, because I know I won't need to wear this as often. The cold temperatures of this week have been a delight to me. A perfect excuse to wear these, 24/7!
http://www.ifish.net/exo1lyn.jpg
Even if you don't fish. Even if you don't expose yourself to the cold temperatures of the outdoors much, I feel that everybody should have a pair of these! Just to wear around the house, if nothing else!
But take it one step further. Say you are an out of doors type, and you need more protection than even the Exotherm One provides. With the comfort and warmth of the Exotherm One, add a wind and water resistant shell, and you have the Exotherm Two!
http://www.ifish.net/exo2a.jpg
Exotherm II ( right ) is a 16 oz fleece one piece jumpsuit with water and wind resistant outer shell, hand warmer pockets, inside breast pocket wind guard, knit stretch panel across the upper back, with foot and thumb loops. Order is all black or with color accents.
The Exotherm Two is designed to fit under my dry waders, and my wet waders, and the same, warm and soft fleece lay against my skin.
No more shuffling for which is the warmest sweater, or how many layers of turtle necks I need. One suit, I'm done!
It's really incredible stuff. When I'm home, lounging around after a long day on the Columbia, like yesterday, I wear the Exotherm one. Kilchis thinks I am a teddy bear, and tries to attack me!
Yesterday I put the Thermolux Two to the test, out on the Columbia, with Pete Morris, Bill Hedlund, and Bill Snyder. They are all witnesses! I didn't shiver once! It hailed, it rained, it blew sideways, and I smiled through the entire day!
Yes, the proper fishing gear is important to a successful day on the river. The right rods, the right lures, and tight lines... But I'm convinced, and surely you will be too, that the proper dress is the one most important piece of gear, if you want to stay at it as long I do!
Exotherm and Thermolux is the key to enjoying my sport during the worst of weather. Funny how it happens, but it is indeed, in the worst of weather, that I've found the most success in my fishing.
If your wife is a fair weather fisher woman, try her in a pair of these! It's amazing, the difference it wil make!
-- But make sure you get a pair for yourself. It would be very unfortunate, (and somewhat embarrassing) if during the hot bite, you froze out before she did. :wink:
Visit USIA here! (http://usia.com)
Beleive me. Ask Pete! I stood out in the rain, and it didn't even affect me at all! He had to tell me to get off the deck, and under cover, so that he could see his rod! :smile:
[ 04-04-2003, 06:49 AM: Message edited by: Jennie@ifish ]