Jagermeister,
We wear bright orange rain gear in commercial fishing, it keeps you dry (sort of). Since I run the boat I started wearing Filson rain gear, it was a lot drier but not as good if you fall in the water. (visibility) I sent the company a picture of the boat pulling some 8,000 pounds of salmon over the rail with me in my Filson coat in the foreground. (but they have not published it) I have been on the ocean for more than 300 days in some past years, but am currently retired.
I wear Filson when ever I go out in the local storms and stay rather dry. I do not wear Gortex (wet tex), but it is okay off the coast where they have less than 40 inches a year of rain. In Alaska we had occasionally > 160 inches.
My dog ate one of the coats and Filson fixed it free. Another one, the zipper broke and they sent me a free new replacement coat. The only disavantage I've had is with the re-coating the coat with "oil". I find the coats very warm, good wind breakers, and if kept up, very dry. I use a new coat as a dress coat about town and after it gets re-oiled it get to go hunting.
jas
