 turtles a lot of water snakes and i prefer to have the waders on and not have leeches and other things you know finding me while i'm out there trying to enjoy myself but basically you walk out into the lake or the pond and away you float and with mine what i do is i have my cabela's waders are the the footy kind that don't have the boots on the bottom and so i put a pair of swim fins on and you propel yourself backwards so you're sitting basically in the chair in the water