How are your rubber boots holding up?
Complaints about poorly made Xtratuf boots, published in coastal Alaska newspapers in recent months, also extend to Haines. The familiar brown and yellow knee boots with a grippy sole are favored by commercial fishermen, river guides and woods dwellers.
“I quit wearing them,” said John Winge, a Haines commercial fisherman who bought a new pair in April, only to have them start leaking a few weeks later along…
