Well i would say if your just fishing ice covered lakes, booties should be fine but as for river fishing and such i dont think that would work too good, they may tend to fall off, the guys you may want to talk to is maybe NSbeagler cause they were talkin about the same thing but for rabbit hunting, and they were talking about stuff they put on the pads to help strengthen them so they dont cut cause they said the booties dont stay on in terrain such as that.