Warm Gloves

[Lucky Eddy]

I have very warm clothes, Polar fleece, neck gators, goose down hat, but I just can't keep my hands warm. Sometimes my hands are so cold I can barley light a match for the heater. Does anyone know of a company that sells warm gloves? How do you people in Minesota and Wisconsin keep your hand warm, when the temperature is always below zero? Even on Lake Simcoe I get cold by the time I get to the ice hut. I know that mittens are better than finger gloves,but when fishing in the open I like finger gloves for more control of the fishing pole.

[RANGER]

The best and warmest GLOVES I have ever had on my hands are either Downhill snow skiing gloves (I am a skier) or snowmobile gloves.

.............................BUT.................. .....

If you are looking to keep your fingers/hands really warm, you'll have to bite the bullet - you NEED mittens!

There are ways around the bulkiness of the mittens:

1) There is an innerglove made that is polypropylene, like the wicking long johns, that you can wear inside the mittens or gloves so when you need to remove the mittens/gloves your hand is not exposed. Plus, if the liner gets wet, the polypropylene wicks the moisture away. These inner gloves/liners are thin and tight fitting. You can find these inner gloves (liners) in ski stores, mountainclimbing stores, wilderness stores and, if they still have them - www.campmor.com/

2) Get the mittens that have the index finger separated from the body of the mitten - more dexterity.

Good Luck!

[Eyez]

I usually don't wear gloves when fishing, but when I do, I prefer leather mittens with a wool liner. I just take them off to do things that I can't do with them on, and your hands warm up quickly in them. The advantage to the wool liner is that if it gets wet, you can take it out and dry it fairly quickly by hanging it above your heater somewhere (just not too close! ).


Eyez

[TBO/MN]

Yupper!! gotta luv dose Chopperz........:7

Good Fishin'
TBO/MN

[Chad]

Choppers. All those in the snowbelt have a pair of choppers. We also bring along a propane heater.

[irv johnson]

First try fingerless gloves in mitts, then regular thin gloves in mitts, then chopper mitts with handwarmers when its most severe. That'll do ya as theres nothing better.

[ww]

The best gloves I have are called mittens, leather with wool liner

[gilman911]

Of equal importance to the gloves you wear, is keeping your torso warm. Keeping your torso warm allows your system to circulate warm blood through your outer extremities. Smoking and too much alcohol also have a deleterious affect on keeping warm. I've found that a hot bite can overcome anything!

Stay Warm
Bill

[tbomn]

Yup........see I told ya, luv dim chopperz, ah! :7

Us in da nord know dim warm mits, ah!! Makes me think of the KQ92 CD.........what a hoot.

[ETT]

Eddie,
Without knowing for sure what it is you are doing, and assuming it's ice fishing, let me through out some other ideas. Bow hunters use a muff type thing that is big enough for both hands and will hold the dry hand warmers like hot fingers.

If you use your hands too much to deal with a muff, over sized mittens with the finger warmers in them are a good idea. If you have a hard time warming your hands back up, then have the heat waiting for them. Same thing can be done with the muff.

Great big snowmobil mittens with the huge cuffs are a pain to get on and off, but there are some short heavily insulated waterproof mittens that I think are the best wat to go. Bonus... they're ugly enough the kids won't steal em and they'll be where ever you leave them.

Good luck, good fishin and happy holidays.

[mlc]

Hey Lucky, one of my techniques is to take a pair of those resuable microwave type handwarmers and insert it between my shirt sleeve and my wrist. There are times when I would like to insert it inside the palm of my glove, but it interferes with rod handling to much. There are times I just have to bag it and replace my fingerless gloves with mittens.

Take care,
mlc

[Bret N]

If you gotta use gloves, put some hand warmers in them. The kind that you shake after you open the package and they get nice and warm. Your hands will still get cold when you have to handle the fish, but at least your glove will be nice and warm when you put your hands back in them. I use regular leather Wells Lamont Grips gloves w/ thinsulate and hand warmers and they work pretty good until it gets in the single digits. If you're gonna fish out in the open colder than that, learn to fish with your mittens/Choppers, or better yet get into some kind of ice shelter w/ a Mr. Heater. Bret.