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| Ok, stupid question. I've never used gloves, but I see and hear people saying things like " I gloved up to unhook the monster". Do you use gloves for grip on a slimy fish, or are they relatively tooth-proof, or what--do you use gloves, and if so why?? After years of just being careful, and rarely shedding (much) blood, do I need gloves? Have I been missing an essential tool out of sheer ignorance? And, if I do need gloves all of a sudden, which ones?
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Location: Waukee, IA | It only takes one fish and you will WISH you had had some gloves! I use musky armor and they work wonderfully! Git you sum!  |
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| Musky armor gloves are the best!!! Protects you from getting cut by gills. I use a glove almost all of the time after having my fingers cut up enough... |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | musky armor's! |
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| Great question! I've been wearing gloves since my first muskie-to-human hook-up 19 years ago.
Since then I've always had them on when I am unhooking muskies. However, on one late fall trip when my buddy unhooked my muskie and passed it to me for a quick photo; I didn't put the gloves on and it flipped it's head on the pass and sliced 2 fingers with a tooth. Now I always have them on for muskies and most pike; they last for about 50 esox.
I've used various gloves but have settled on leather work gloves like Lamont brand. They are also good on your "head and gill" hand when measuring or cleaning lively walleye.
My only recent incident was with a low 30-inch pike caught on a large muskie crankbait; it thrashed while unhooking and put the front treble through my arm right above the glove while it was still attached to the rear hook! Now I keep a pair of welding gloves in the boat for special situations. |
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| I don't use gloves as I think if you getting cut by the gill rakers you're doing something bad to the fish. Yes I have had nicks by them but it's very rare, also for me with the feel without gloves I can tell when they are about to go squirrely. I have confidence going gloveless after handling over 350 muskies (no I'm not claiming to be great, just been doing it for 26 years) but for people new to handling muskies I think they are a good thing. |
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Location: MPLS Metro | Gloves are always nice to have in the boat to handle fish. I dont use "Lindy" release gloves which are suppose to protect against getting a hook in your hand but I do use a microfiber golf glove to protect from gill plate cuts. The ones i have are just like the musky armor glove, i got a pair of clearance microfiber golf gloves for 7 bucks. Same thing just without the logo |
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| I get gardening gloves from Lowes or Home Depot, or gloves from AutoZone. Rubber in the palm area to protect the fish, cloth on the outside. $5 to $7. Get a color that doesn't stand out in the fish picture (eg black palm/ gray outside).
When the gloves smells too fishy from a lot of 'ski's, they're easy to wash, or just use another pair, since they're so cheap. |
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Location: Not far enough north! | I used to not wear gloves and then it was about 50/50 depending on how spunky the fish was being in the net. That was until about four years ago when on the first day of a week long trip on LOTW i had a 47 incher turn on me in the net and most of my hand ended up in her mouth. Well we were a long way from anywhere so I wasn't going back to the states for stitches (which I should have had about 7) right in the palm of my hand. Got out the first aid kit and cleaned, bandaged, trimmed excess meat, and super glued the cuts shut. The rest of the week was a pain as the cuts kept busting open and bleeding all over. I was just lucky to not get an infection. Since then I put the gloves on as soon as the fish is in the net. I like to use mechanic style gloves that have soft rubber grip patches on them. They are a little more substantial than "golf gloves" and still provide a good feel. Have not had a problem since the gloves became automatic... |
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Location: Lake St.Clair | Good call looks like ill be adding some gloves to go. Haven't got tore up to bad yet but its bound to happen. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | I use the lindy glove. I put three sets of trebles into my hand and cut my arm on gill rakers twice before i decided to buy gloves. If not for the gloves all of those numbers would be at minimum doubled. buy gloves, they are great!!!! can never be too safe |
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| On the very rare occasion when I have caught a fish, I have used cotton garden gloves to get a good grip on the fish. These would give some protection against the teeth or a hook, but basically they are for the grip. |
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| Not a stupid question at all. I also use the rubber palm ones from Menards. Also have a set of cheap Rapala fishing gloves i use. I have had a few close calls and gloves just make sense. They can also prevent you from dropping a fish in your boat if it decides to get squirrly. Handling the fish safely makes a difference. |
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Location: WESTERN WI | musky armor gloves=
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Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | Not a dumb q's!!!
Ask my father....he severed a tendon in his hand on a 46'' ski up on LOTW. Had to end our trip early to get him back to the U.S. for surgery. No fun at all! Kind of a freak deal that I still tease him about, but in the end a $15 glove could have saved us a lot of time,$, and pain.
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Location: Sycamore, IL | I've been using the Lindy glove for a few years and really like it. It is also great for newbie's who have not handled a lot of fish to give them confidence and avoid cuts and dropped fish on the floor of the boat. Gloves make for a better all around experience in my opinion... |
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Location: Minnesota. | Farmer Rick - 6/4/2013 9:53 PM
I used to not wear gloves and then it was about 50/50 depending on how spunky the fish was being in the net. That was until about four years ago when on the first day of a week long trip on LOTW i had a 47 incher turn on me in the net and most of my hand ended up in her mouth. Well we were a long way from anywhere so I wasn't going back to the states for stitches (which I should have had about 7) right in the palm of my hand. Got out the first aid kit and cleaned, bandaged, trimmed excess meat, and super glued the cuts shut. The rest of the week was a pain as the cuts kept busting open and bleeding all over. I was just lucky to not get an infection. Since then I put the gloves on as soon as the fish is in the net. I like to use mechanic style gloves that have soft rubber grip patches on them. They are a little more substantial than "golf gloves" and still provide a good feel. Have not had a problem since the gloves became automatic...
Wooow Rick, that sounds really nasty man, especially since you were so far away from help and had the rest of the trip to put up with it. Geez.
I don't wear gloves and am really careful as I mainly fish alone much of the time. I hope I'm not jinxing myself posting this but to date I've not had much trouble. I also don't handle many fish over the course of the season. I also fish barbless a good bit except for spinner baits.
After 33 yrs. I find smaller to mid-sized pike to be the worst trouble.
Man, I hope ol' Murphy's not listening in...
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Location: Not far enough north! | This was the fish and this was the photo right after the release. Was lucky we found superglue at the lodge and it was a big enough bottle to last the whole week. Every time I set the hook or netted a fish the rest of the week it busted open and had to be re-glued and bandaged. We now carry super glue, a suture kit, and broad spectrum antibiotics ands have never needed them since... notice I put some leather gloves after the bite
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| After reading this thread you guys have me second guessing not wearing gloves. I have a thumb that is still bothering me from a fish I caught in a tournment on kinkaid earlier in the year decided to try and eat my thumb but figured it was a freak thing. May be going out and buying some before my next outing. |
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| I have the Musky Armor gloves. Carry them with me everywhere I fish. Forget to use them every time, and often wind up with sliced up knuckles, after which I usually say a few choice words and go on about my fishing, muttering about how I should have used the gloves.
I'll learn one day... Or maybe I won't.
As a side note, they've held up wonderfully! After 5 seasons they look just like they did the day I took them out of the package. They've got at least 18,000 miles on them best I can tell. Quality merchandise right there! 
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| Musky Armor glove have nothing to do with protection against hooks or teeth if you want protection use the lindy one,they look less fashion but they are not useless when it's unhooking time
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Location: WESTERN WI | On a second note to wearing gloves, I always keep a knipex right by my side and another pair of side cutters too (incase the knipex falls in the net/lake) when unhooking fish. I have hooked myself (my thigh to be exact) to a topwater bait that was hooked to a 40 incher while wading in chippewa river. Before I could execute a any type of hook removal the fish did a headshake and removed a chunk of flesh from my right upper thigh the size of a nickel. My Femoral artery was only 4 inches away and could have been in rough shape if it was nicked/punctured. It bled all evening. I have also heard of guys who got there hands (tendons) pinned to baits that fish are attached to and do some serious damage (nerve damage/loss of feeling) I even know a guy who had to "subdue" the fish or face reconstructive hand surgery while unhooking a mid 40's. So consider hand protection and a pair of hook cutters to be standard equipment for all releases. |
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Location: Northwest Wi. | I wear gloves when Muskie handling, but I also wear safety glasses when working with batteries and ear plugs when running equipment or shooting. Got a scar from a leader on the '03 Cass Lake Turny. that still won't heal.... |
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| I have multiple pictures with bloody hands... I need some gloves. |
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| We spend a week on LOTW every year for musky. We wear gloves for every fish. The nicks and scratches add up if you do not. Those nicks and scratches - beside being annoying - provide easy access for infection. Two of our guys have been infected (arm swells and fever) in the past three years. Therefore, we have added antibacterial gel for the final step of our process. I admit - we are extra careful, however we dont want our trip cut short on something we can control. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | always wear gloves... saves your hands for sure. i use the musky armour gloves, just the other nite the guy w me got one, i told him to put on the gloves, he was stubborn, didn't..yah nice road rash on his hand now.... wearing gloves is smart. |
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| I use Lindy Gloves. There are just too many things that can go wrong without them. The gloves, when you wet them first, should help protect the slime of the musky too, I would think. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i have the musky armour gloves strapped on the rail in the back area of the boat where the net goes when fish is in the bag. net is always secured in the same spot and everything is there to do the work. systematic placement and location makes for routine that reliably gets the job done in the quickest and safest way.
one got away from me and i learned from it. |
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| always wear gloves I do 95% of the time..its 'Murphy's Law" ...last night I had a high 30's fish in the net..didn't want photo's and wanted to get her back quick, for some reason I wanted to touch her though..thought i could grab her quick out of the net, I mean I only had to move her 2 feet...should have grabbed the glove that was 5 feet away, she got me pretty good |
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