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Hello folks as most of you guys know I stay in Scotland. The rivers here are seldom warm except in high summer. I've dredged all year round for the last 5 years and I normally do 2 fills on the dredge . The secret to staying warm when dredging is a drysuit and a 200g undersuit . The drysuit I use is a cordura trilaminate ,this type of suit can be expensive butt after trying a few different types wet, drysuit neoprene 7mm, double skin army issue,and finally my otter. I found That the cordura was the best . I found that noeprene wasn't very good in sharp rock situations and I was always glueing it back together,using black witch . The cordura trilaminate suit is by far the best option for winter dredging if you don't have a water heater. The undersuit is probably just as important and key to staying warm . I use a Northern Diver spx 100 for my first fill and then have  a warm lunch , then and I use a Northern Diver flectalon 200 and that works really great for me! Changing suits at break time is crucial if you're working Hard as drysuits are sweatsuits . I use a 7mm noeprene hood again I have 2 hoods .5 mm neoprene, Kevlar gloves . I tend to cover my drysuit knees , elbow's and crutch area's with 3m Marine 5200. This is also great on your gloves butt remember to just apply it to your gloves fingers and palms because it doesn't stretch the same as noeprene butt it saves you money especially if your burning through gloves.last Butt not least is drysuit socks . I've used the same sock type from the start, Fourth element and they are brilliant..

I hope this helps and if anyone has any questions or input on this I'd like to hear from you any tips would be great cheers Arrrrrr