Quote Originally Posted by redietz View Post
A threader still isn't much help when it comes to tying knots with cold fingers.
Do you use loop to loop to attach the snells?

Ahh, that solves two problems, tippet through hook eye and tying a knot in cold weather.

I guess I'm a wimp. When it's too cold for me to tie knots, I don't fish anymore. I can tie knots with gloves on, but I don't fish much when it's below 32 F. Not much patience with line frozen in the rod guides.

Even in good weather, I do have trouble with 6x tippet through some patterns with anything over the eye. For those patterns, the threaders are great.

Also for evening hatches, the pre threading the threaders works very well. I can tie on new flies until it's too dark to fish.