I love to fish in kilts, saves on waders. But... the water is far too cold on The Gallatin, The Big Blackfoot, The Madison, or The Yellowstone. The reason some of us wear the kilt might just disappear in water like that!!! All of those books are great, they even did a decent job with the movie (river runs through it). I always remember a time elk hunting with my dad on the Yampa river here in colorado, early november, the teens below zero(f), my dad decides to bath in the river, at a spot moving too fast for ice. He did not even reach the bottom before he started to get back out. Everywhere the water touched him he was bright blue, and the shrinkage... funny! happy angling and dangling, see ya