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Location: Waconia, MN | Just curious as to what people use while casting to keep there hands warm |
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Location: oswego, il | I use the ice armor gloves. They are bulky but they do work, I just get used to them. |
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Location: Eagle River, WI | I use sheer will power to keep my hands warm. I just can't get comfortable fishing with gloves, so I fish until I can't take it anymore and then I take a break for a minute or two and then continue fishing. |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | I like neoprene to keep the hands warm while wet. Wool works awesome as well, and is what I wear when steelhead or salmon fishing. |
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Location: New Hope MN | NO COTTON |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Fingerless ragg wool |
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Location: Not Where I Want To Be | Cabelas Camoskinz |
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| fleece fingerless gloves from orvis. less bulky than ragg wool. made for flyfisherman but work great. other companies probably make them as well. |
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Location: Michigan | Seal Skinz |
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Location: Twin Cities | Glacier glove fleece lined neoprene. |
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| The seal skins are good to a certain temp but if it's too cold the outside of the glove holds water and feels cold on your hands. I have used 2 pair of seal skins... a larger pair over top of the first pair. Glacier glove is better when it's too cold though. |
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Location: Minnesota | Blue Latex surgical gloves inside of a pair of ice armor gloves. |
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| Cabelas Camoskinz without a doubt. 80 gram Thinsulate and Goretex. They eventually get wet halfway through the day, so have a second pair ready to switch out. This has worked the best for me after trying everything.
Hope this helps.
Lee Tauchen
http://leetauchen.com |
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Location: On the River | Ice Armour I keep 3 or 4 pairs in the boat Seal skin gloves don't work very well. |
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Location: Oshkosh | Im with Sorno, fingerless ragg wool.
Peter |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | fingerless wool and a pair of deer hide choppers to go over the top when it gets real cold...I will look for the Cabelas Camoskins though. |
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Location: Chicago, IL | ditto on the Seal Skinz |
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Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | Fingerless Ragwool here too, keep multiple pairs in the boat.
Esox23
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Location: Hugo, MN | ICE ARMOUR! |
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Location: Contrarian Island | I have the camoskinz Lee mentions above..they do eventually soak thru but are thin and don't get in the way....my glove arsenal might be a bit overkill...I usually have 5 pairs of assorted varieties on my boat bag, and another 5 -10 pairs in a ziploc for the tough guys like Sled who jump in w/ no gloves ; ) ....for milder days, fingerless wool ones, colder days I have the camo skinz, and Ice Armor gloves, I wore those last weekend casting when it was 32 and they weren't that bulky...can never have too many dry gloves along in the fall...... |
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Location: north central wisconsin | Once air hits 38 been running a pair of North Face titanium Goretex/thins. and they have been great, if a tad bulky. I troll with the Ice Armor mits or fleet farm deer hide choppers with wool/thins liners. |
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| sorenson - 10/13/2009 9:02 AM
Fingerless ragg wool
I've been wearing these for 30 years during cold months! When they get wet you just ring them out and your warm again!
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| Used latex surgical gloves last week at LOTW while jigging eyes and I was surprised how well they worked. Hands stayed dry and kept the cold air from direct contact with skin. And they're hookless and waterproof. $3.99 for a box of 50.
Muskie trolling I like Under Armor liners (great wicking) under a pair of polypro. Seal Skinz and Glacier Gloves are good, too. |
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| What ever type of gloves you choose, the key is to have several pairs to change when they get too wet. I also like the fingerless gloves, I have a pair sold at REI that are made for mountain climbing, which seems to be applicable when chasing muskies. |
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Location: Birch Run | I wear frosty grip work gloves, rubber coated grips (waterproof), cheap are can handle fish with them and change lures without taking them off. |
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| fingerless wool gloves from the army surplus store they also have ultra thin wool gloves that fit under the wool gloves. They are like $5 a pair and are warm even when wet.
s |
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| I've been using the Glacier Gloves, with limited success. They last a couple hours in the rain before water gets in there, and another few hours before you can actually dump the water out of the glove. I use the polypro liners under the glacier gloves when it's really cold, and keep a spare pair of each in a ziplock bag for when the first pair gets soaked. That will get me though the day. When you get off the water though, you have to turn them inside out and squeeze the water out, soaking it up with a towel or something. If you don't, they start out wet the next day, and that's no fun. By the third or fourth day fishing in the rain? You don't want to put your hands in there! I've tried the fingerless wool gloves, but they don't really seem to do anythhing except soak up water. For trolling? Nothing beats the millitary issue leather gloves with the wool liners. The ones they used to sell at the Army Surplus stores were great. Now the leather outers they sell are kind of cheap, so I've resorted to using the wool liner with a pair of insulated leather gloves I bought at Kohl's over top.
I think Brad has it nailed. Keep a bunch of different gloves, because they're all going to get wet eventually.
The thing I hate about all of them is they are bulky -- casting all day makes for some cramped up hands because you're fighting with the gloves.
Edited by esoxaddict 10/16/2009 2:00 PM
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Location: Oregon | I like wool gloves because I can still maintain all my dexterity needed to feel what is going on with the rod, work the reel, etc. Wool is surprisingly warm and if they get wet you can slap them against something and nearly all the water will come out. Keep a propane heater close by to take the edge off as needed. There are much warmer gloves out there but you lose alot of control.
Jed |
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Location: WI | I like mechanic's gloves with fingers. Good for handling fish as well. |
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Location: Nordeast Minneapolis | I picked up a pair of neoprene fishing gloves from sierra trading post (pretty easy to find). They were about $10 a pair, and you can fold the fingertips back, if needed... Couldn't be happier, really. For casting, folding one thumb back means the rest of my hand stays warm, and remarkably warm at that.
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| 5 pack of those cheap brown gloves. when they get wet, change gloves. Even wet they are still warmer than nothing.
Jim |
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| I like leather mittens with hand warmers in them..Nice! |
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Location: Latitude 41.3016 Longitude 88.6160 | Ragg Wool Gloves when it dry outside and Seal Skins when it is very cold and snowing, also use vaseline on your hands it will keep them waterproof. No jokes please 
Edited by PIKEMASTER 10/23/2009 11:21 AM
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| for casting, nothing i've tried beats Glacier Glove premiums with the fleece lining. there is a huge difference between cheapo neoprene and the good stuff. the key is to get a pair that fits snugly, put them on at the start of the day so they warm up, and then keep them on. if you take them off, they get cold and stiff.
http://www.glacieroutdoor.com/products_fishing.php
for trolling or drifting suckers, i favor leather choppers with wool gloves inside to keep the wind off.
and either way, if it's really really cold, i like the ThermaCare HeatWraps on my lower back and hands...puts heat across your kidneys and wrists and helps keep your blood warm which means you're muchy more comfortable.
they're not particularly cheap, but there's only a couple days each year when it's that bad out, so why be cold?
http://thermacare.com/home.aspx
Edited by lambeau 10/23/2009 11:22 AM
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Location: deephaven mn | surgical gloves work great. just keep your hands dry you'll be fine |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | I just got some of the Cabela's Camoskinz. They are sweet. A little tough to get on when hands are damp, but they are awesome! |
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Location: The desert | Gloves are for wimps. |
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What kind of gloves does every use when it gets cold out?