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Originally Posted by Betty Hiner
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Originally Posted by Betty Hiner
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chewy,
It's a long story, and quite embarassing ... dealing with winter time fishing, no tree coverage, jeans zippers, and natures calling! :oops: It is firmly imbedded in my mind!! :roll: :shock:
Betty
fingerless wool gloves along with...
a wrist warmer, that you wear like a bracelet that applies heat to your wrist where the blood flow is near the surface and hands - this will work wonders
Dear rst,
I have pretty much tried everything and here are my rankings from worst to first.
3) Fleece - I have a pair of expensive fleece windstopper mittens with the fold over flap. They work great until they are wet or damp, which is sort of the whole point of fishing in the winter. If my hands stay dry I'm going home!
2) Fingerless Ragg wool - They are cheap and work well. When they get wet all you need to do is shake them aggressively and they are dry.
1) Glacier Gloves - They are neoprene with fold over finger tabs. They fit well, don't get wet, and I have the best dexterity with them of the products I mentioned.
One thing I would like to suggest is to make sure the gloves you put on are warm and dry. I don't care what they are made of, if you put them away wet and stick your hands into frozen gloves your hands may never warm up. I like to toss my gloves up on the dashboard of my truck and run the defroster on them on my way to the stream. Nice and toasty when I put them on, and my hands stay that way.
Best Wishes,
Avalon :D
My nose never runs...I attribute that to some of the Tubers high quality interior stomach snake oil, made in Ireland of course.
Am I the only one who has trouble with fly line getting caught up on the flaps of the fold-up mittens? Cause The one time I tried em I cut off the mitten part within an hour. Same with fold-back fingers.
Spent the day on the water, 25F to start, ice in the guides for four hours, and the fingerless wool did fine. Even after sliming the left one unhooking fish.
DG
The great Al Campbell done a product report on Wind River gloves quite awhile ago and I purchased a pair of them that I think were called 3-2 Wind River gloves. Thumb tip and first 2 fingers tips are exposed and the ring finger and pinkie are covered. That way you can feel the line, tie on flies, etc. with exposed fingers. When it is really cold, I put one of the hand warmers,that you shake up, inside each glove on top of my hands. My thoughts are that if I can keep the blood running throught the veins on top of my hands warm maybe that will help keep my fingers warm. So far, it is working pretty good. You might check them out.
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Originally Posted by dudley
Don't you find you have a problem with condensation wearing the dishwashing gloves. I have tryed rubber gloves and waterproof neoprene gloves and always found my hands sweat in them and then they are cold.
If you win the Pink Fly Rod Outfit, you will be in vogue with your pink gloves...for your, uh...pinkies?
Nov.2nd, it is snowing lightly here in SE Michigan. So much for our fall.
Nov 1st, broke out the snowmobile to get to work too much snow on the road. My truck would barely make it through in 4 low. Sleds faster to get where your going too.
Getting too cold to fish as much as I want and too early to ice fish.....In limbo here right now for a few weeks unless it stops snowing and we get some nice days to fish.