fredaevans
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I'd obv. assume a dive shop but not many of them around here in the very southern end of Oregon.
Where the question comes from is wading the North Umpqua river. The bottom (fly section) is almost all flat highly POLISHED!! lava rock. This place DEFINES the word slippery!! 
A couple of suggestions I've had (almost all summer fishing is 'wading wet,' are either mountain/rock climbing shoes or diving 'booties' as these appear to have a soft 'grabby' bottom.
Thoughts??
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Oops, sorry Fred. I forgot to follow up on that. You might find a dive shop or at least try a surf shop out west of you at Crescent City, or Coos Bay. I'm sure there must be something closer, but there's always Ebay..
There's a big outdoors store up in Grant's Pass - maybe they'll know. I'm pretty sure they'd have rock climbing shoes as it looked like they had an indoor climbing wall
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Marty
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I don't think the dive booties are gonna solve it. Normally a rubber sole which is still slippery... only soft because of the lack of shank support for foot flex. Very hard on ankles in those conditions is my thought on using them.
have you tried the coarser felt that cabelas has on there boots? My light weight boots from them have this type of bottom and I like them a lot on the snot rocks
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The dive booties I got in Guam are called Akona Titanium booties ( http://www.Akona.com/ ). They have felt soles (where we were diving there were lots of things in the sand like stonefish that would bad juju to step on). I walked on smoothe polished coral in these things and never budged when waves crashed around and into me. I think they might work for you...
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