What Kind Of Gloves Do You Wear?

[Wayne SW/MO]

I settled on a pair of hunting gloves years ago. I believe I got them from BPS? They fit fairly snug and most important they are waterproof. I can't handle the neoprene fishing gloves. I've had a couple of pairs of them and they are warm, but they wear my hands out because they a stiff and require more effort to hold the rod.

I worked outside and wore jersey gloves when I had too, but with an appropriate cover glove, leather for dry and rubberized for wet.

[Old plug]

I have a hard time with gloves anything. Hate something on my hands I used to fish a lot in winter over at lake coffeen in ILL. I have fished as low as 18 degrees without gloves. Now if its below below 40 I cannot fish without gloves on. so i just do not do it.

[Jack Jones]

I can't stand to wear any type of glove when fishing. Since it is not hands but my fingers that get cold, those fingerless gloves are counter productive for me.

If the fingers get so cold that they start to hurt, I do a couple of different things. A couple of them you will laugh at but it really works quickly and that is what I am after.

Depending on the type of fishing I am doing and how I am dressed, one option I use is to run my hands up under my shirt into my armpits. Press your arms against them and they will warm quickly. If I have waders on, I will run them down my pants. Laugh all you want the area between your thighs is very warm and in about 1 minute my hands are as warm as they can be and ready to go again.

Ok, let the jokes, sneers and jeers fly. I can take cause I got warm hands!

[Jack Jones]

I use a pair of Orvis gloves I got at Bass Pro. The tops flip back and so do the thumb. They've been good for years now.

[Bill Anderson]

I have several types, but the best are my Glacier Gloves. They are full fingered, but have slits in the first finger and thumbs where you can get direct contact with the line and rod. When you have a finger tip protruding, you can velcro the tip of the glove back and out of the way. They are the handiest gloves I have found and do a good job keeping the wind and cold off my hands, while giving me the dexterity I need to handle a fly rod. I am our church photographer/videoographer, having been roped into that job since I spent 30 years in the news media. We had our annual 5K Turkey Trot race on Thanksgiving day, and I wore my Glacier Gloves. Being able to use my first finger outside the glove made snapping photos easy. So I have found another use for them as well, besides fishing.

[Ill Trout Bum]

Seal Skinz chill blockers. They are totally waterproof and very warm. I fished them one New Years day when the air temp. was 5 above and loved them ever since.

[Kelroy]

I love my Henderson scuba gloves. Very thin neoprene, and the synthetic palm material offers incredible sensitivity. Work great for fly fishing and slinging a baitcaster too. Being a warm-water glove, they will soak through if you immerse them a few times, but they are better than anything else I've tried in terms of dexterity and 'feel.'

I wear nitrile gloves all the time for my job, and I've tried the thin-liner-underneath trick. If you have smallish hands and can find some really big nitrile, it might work. But in my experience, the elasticity applies enough compression to squeeze the blood out of my fingers and restrict the circulation so much that it gets painful after about ten minutes. My fingers feel colder than with no gloves at all.

[brtkearns]

Simms Wool Half Finger gloves.

[JCWolfe]

I have several types. The seal skinzs are snaggy but waterproof. I have the fingerless glacier gloves which are good till they get wet. I also have cold water scuba gloves which take getting use to but seem to work the best for me. I find I use more tippet because of the thickness of those gloves but I have been thinking about making them fingerless. They all have pluses and minuses, you just have to decide what works for you. I'd much rather go gloveless but wet hands and cold wind make for miserable fishing. I also have fingerless wool.

[stlfisher]

I carry 4-5 pairs of those really cheap jersey gloves that fit tight to your hands and switch them out after they get wet...which eventually they will. I ilke the ones without any grip as I can still feel what is going on and control my line without it sticking to the grip on my gloves.