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Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! => Dressing for ice fishing => Topic started by: Yukon Steve on Dec 31, 2008, 01:16 PM
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O.K, I am relitively new at the hardwater tactics but the only question I really have is what are the best gloves to wear when baiting hooks and setting lines so that my hands don't get so numb that it last all day?? What do you folks use??
AND DR. McGILLACUDDY ISN'T AN ANSWER ;)2
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The doctor is for when they are frozen and can't feel them..... ;)
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I always take my gloves off when I am tending the traps, baiting, etc... Even if it is real cold I have never had any luck doing those chores with gloves. Especially playing a fish, need to feel the line.
I keep my gloves dry that way and put them back on when I am done. I use 2 pair. Snowmobile gloves for riding to and from on the ATV. A pair of heavy wool mittens with a wind block for on the ice. (easier to get on and off than gloves when hands are wet). I am thinking of getting a pair of over sized Ice Armor mittens this year as I saw a pair the other day at Beans that felt very warm.
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i don't use gloves either to tend traps and put bait on.....just put your back to the wind and you should be fine....you get good at it you NEVER get cold.....
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Ditto, I always take my gloves off too, keeps em dry that way.
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ditto to all. no gloves tendin or baiting the traps. gotta be able to "feel" what's goin on down there with yer line. i did recieve some gloves for x-mas that i do like. they are mittens. the top folds back and velcros to the back of the mitten and you have instant fingerless gloves. i would use them tendin traps and such, but i'd take them off if i had a fish on.
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HotHands hand and body warmers In each pocket for when your hands get really cold. You can't handle your lines or baits with gloves on.The first thing you do when you get to your trap is take off your gloves. Hothands are .50 each a great deal for warm hands.
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ice armour mittens and gloves :icefish:
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Anything made from Gore Windstopper fleece is good for warmth and dexretity, even when wet. The best made I have found are Mountain Hardware Gravity Gloves. $50 a pair. I use them for everything from work gloves to snowmobiling. I get 2 years out of a pair.
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As everyone said No gloves tending and baiting . I wear Ice armor mittens to the hole and put them back on as soon as I'm done . Your hands will warm right back up in them . Add a heat pack in each if you need ,But I haven't done that yet .
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I use these gloves.. 100% waterproof. Use these for drilling and setting up, but take off gloves for setting bait, and playing fish...
but these gloves are great! I also use them setting decoys duck hunting!!!
http://www.atlasgloveconsumerproducts.com/insulated.html (http://www.atlasgloveconsumerproducts.com/insulated.html)
(http://www.atlasgloveconsumerproducts.com/images/08b/460big.jpg)
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i hate gloves......heavy wool or the joka polar liner gloves (which are ok, but not great).....gloves off to tend, hand warmers to recover
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Cant feel the fish on the end of the line with gloves on.
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A friend of mine carries a dish towel with him to dry his hands after baiting a hook / landing a fish, etc. Makes quite a difference putting a dry hand back into your gloves.
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sounds like a job for shamwow!
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O.K, I am relitively new at the hardwater tactics but the only question I really have is what are the best gloves to wear when baiting hooks and setting lines so that my hands don't get so numb that it last all day?? What do you folks use??
AND DR. McGILLACUDDY ISN'T AN ANSWER ;)2
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Good thread. I carry two pairs of gloves: a pair of insulated "dry" gloves and a pair of cheap noeprene gloves for tending traps.
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Good point Out4Trout, I failed to mention it in my original post but the towel idea is a real winner too. I keep a few in the saddlebags of my wheeler. When I fish they go in my pocket.
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always bare handed tending and baiting traps but i have found mitts work better than gloves for me ive had my fingers frostbit before so having mitts and keeping your fingers close together seems to keep them warmer
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A friend of mine carries a dish towel with him to dry his hands after baiting a hook / landing a fish, etc. Makes quite a difference putting a dry hand back into your gloves.
Its always the simplest things I never think of. I always tend my traps without mitts on. My hands usually go back in fairly wet after trying to dry them off on my jacket. I usually keep hand warmers in my mitts on the real cold day's.
Thanks for the idea, a towel will be going with me tomorrow.
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ice armor mittins no gloves when tending traps i might try the towel tommorrow
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Bare handed here as well setting up and playing fish. That being said, I usually bring a pair of military surplus mittens. They have a nice liner inside and they are super warm. They also have a "sissy" string so they hang at your sides when you take them off. Word of advice.....pay attention when you take them off to tend to nature's call otherwise they will be REAL WARM for a few minutes THEN FREEZE solid. Of course I'm not implying I have personal experience with this. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;D
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The only time I use gloves is when I am dragging my equipment out.
Pretty much any quality glove will do as long as you keep them dry.
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I wear military surplus wool inserts, when I wear gloves.
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rag wool, with mitten part that folds back, and thumb holes.
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somtimes at the end of the day i use disposable latex gloves to wind up the traps
i use flip top rag wool gloves the rest of the time . this may sound funny but my 70 year old dad wears kitchen mits becouse they are warm cheep easy to see and can be shaken of your hand in a second to handle a trap.
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fingerless wool gloves and loose mits
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Chopper mittens from blue seal.
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As everyone has already said, no gloves tending and baiting. I have a pair of Ice Armor mittens and a pair of Gore-tex gloves with Micro Fleece liner that I got from Bean's years ago. They are the Best gloves I have ever own, to bad they do carry them anymore.
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If I am just sitting waiting for tip-ups to go off I wear a pair of Hi-Tech Arctic Gloves. They are black with wool liners and a rough rubber grip surface. But I have never found gloves to be very good for jigging. Just keep some hand warmers in your pockets to warm them up once in a while. Hand warmers are also good for inside your gloves when not in use so that when your hands are really cold and you really need to warm them up, you can.
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Thanks all, I knew I could count on the forum for good advice.... :thumbsup:
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On a day like today it's hard to find anything to keep your hands warm while tending traps. Wool is always good with a hothand in each one. If you start to feel your hands freezing up and the fish is still fighting tie the fish off to something and warm your hands up, because once you freeze them they'll bother you all winter. When i was a kid duckhunting I froze my hands so bad that it felt like I had mittens on packed with snow when I rowed out to pick up some ducks. My hands didn't really hurt until they hit the heat and wow. It took years to repair the damage.
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Wind-Stopper Glo-Mitts-- they look goofy but they work
http://www.wolfarchery.com/h3-glomitts-p-7160.html?osCsid=afe3a4e541814e75c30d506811190a88 (http://www.wolfarchery.com/h3-glomitts-p-7160.html?osCsid=afe3a4e541814e75c30d506811190a88)
*Not Affiliated w/ Seller
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Well, I like the Canadian Military arctic mitts. Long cuff, leather outers w/ fleece on the back, and snap-in liners. My hands have actually sweated doing open air in -20C temps with these.
I don't wear them constantly, usually wear a thin pair of gloves for ease of rod handling 'till hands get cold. then throw on the big mitts to warm 'em up. Until needed, they hang on a piece of paracord and 2 small biners around my neck under my suit.
Keeps 'em warm and dry to rapidly warm up those stinging digits... ;-)
Tight Lines!
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Any glove thats dry, needless to say mine always end up wet so my hand just go into my pockets.
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On average days(20-32) I were a pair of gloves made by glacier bay, any colder and I were ice armor mittens. the glacier bay gloves are a neoprene glove with the "shark skin" texture all around the glove and they are fairly warm but best of all water proof, and are lined with fleece.
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I have used cheap thinsulate for years.
Just bought a pair of ice armor gloves for this season.
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I pull my gear out wearing a pair of old Burton Snowboard Mittens. They go in the sled and I wear wool gloves with no fingers/thumbs the rest of the time on the ice. I carry 2 pair and swap em out when 1 pair gets too wet.
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Fingerless ragg wool and Ice Armor Extreme gloves, depending on the weather.
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Football hand muff and heater packets... Looking at getting the Zippo hand warmer this year to put in the pocket of the muff.
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I wear fingerless gloves, with a skin tight full fingered glove underneath on my left hand. Sometime's if its really cold I'll wear full fingered gloves under my cutoffs on both hands, but I like to be able to feel the line, rod, ect. Gloves come off for baiting.
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i like clams gloves.
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Never where them while doing traps or jigging, my wear them to take the edge off standing around.
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This Fall, I've been using the Clam gloves on the days where I need to. They really are warm and waterproof, despite releasing a Muskie after the fight, the inside of the gloves were very dry. And unlike some insulated waterproof gloves (a pair I got last year for hunting from Cabela's) these don't have that inner lining that pulls inside-out everytime you pull your gloves off. The Clam Ice Armor gloves are a home run in my opinion.
Chris
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one thing i do to keep my hands from being exposed so much throughout the day is to bring a pair of tongs, those that you use in the kitchen,
(http://www.foodutensils.com.au/images/296N30025_Heavy_Duty_Utility_Tongs.jpg)
and use them to handle the fish instead of the usual hand, they are pretty handy.
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I have ice armor gloves that I wear when it's really cold. I love the waterproof feature, but hate the lack of 'feel' and mobility. No gloves on for tending to lines, and last year on not-so-cold days I found a small pair of stretchy thermal liner gloves under latex surgical gloves worked great for almost full time wear. Went through quite a few pars of the latex, but it kept the liners dry, and I still had enough sensitivity to feel the fish/reel them in.
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anyone tried snowsuit's gauntlet gloves? got a couple fingers that won't hold ANY heat (a way too fast of day on a local farm pond a couple years ago)...and these look pretty nice...i have ice armor extreme mitts but am looking for a nice set of gloves.
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I bought myself a pair of neoprene gloves, I try to never take them off. Like a wetsuit they just hold the water next to my skin and the water will just warm-up and I'm fine, if I take them off then the water gets cold and when I put the gloves back on my hands have to rewarm the water. I would agree that gloves aren't the best while jigging, but frozen hands are worse.
I also have a pair of snowmobile gloves that I wear when I'm not jigging, and try to bring several other pairs of gloves.
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one thing i do to keep my hands from being exposed so much throughout the day is to bring a pair of tongs, those that you use in the kitchen,
(http://www.foodutensils.com.au/images/296N30025_Heavy_Duty_Utility_Tongs.jpg)
and use them to handle the fish instead of the usual hand, they are pretty handy.
Do you hold your beer with those tongs too? ;D
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I have some Ice Armor Extreme gloves and haven't used them much. I did use them a few times sitting on a bucket next to my truck and they were warm. Anyone else use these?
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Check out OR (Outdoor Research) gloves. You can see them on Campmor site or go directly to their site.
I like them cause the shells are waterproof and have removable liners. I like the removable liners, they don't invert while taking your damp or wet hands in and out. Easy to dry too. They are pricey though but well worth the money. Definitely some of the best ice fishing gloves you can own. Lots of different styles too.
I also use Kinko's insulated gloves as they are cheap. I tend to beat the sh!t out of them, only good for 1 year.
JIGGIN.
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Manzella gortex
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I tried out my new "IceArmor" gloves.
They are waterproof, warm and not bulky.
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I wear latex surgical gloves under cheap cotton work gloves. I just slip off the cotton glove when baiting up or handling a fish. My hands are always dry which means warm. You can also tie knots with them on w/o much of a problem.
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I have a pair of the Arctic Armor gloves. They may be a little pricey but, they keep my hands warmer than el cheapo's. IMO.
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O.K, I am relitively new at the hardwater tactics but the only question I really have is what are the best gloves to wear when baiting hooks and setting lines so that my hands don't get so numb that it last all day?? What do you folks use??
AND DR. McGILLACUDDY ISN'T AN ANSWER ;)2
Can't tend tipups properly with gloves or mittens on. Take them off - tend to business - put them back on. By the way, I have learned that mittens will keep your hands far warmer than any gloves will but maybe that is just me.
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I'm a big fan of oversized mittens too. They're easy to get on and off and I put little handwarmers in each. I jig with the Ice Armor gloves and use the mittens between set up and flags.
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Insulated jersey gloves with the tip of the index finger and thumb cut off for jigging, nothing else for the other stuff. Neoprene gloves for drilling
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I wear neoprene gauntlet waterfowl gloves for drilling and cleaning holes.
Glo-Mitts for fishing. Take them off for baiting of handling fish.
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I even bait my hooks with my neoprene gloves on, it sucks, but its better then frozen hands
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the best are the spare dry gloves you bring all the rest may or will fail!
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When tending to traps and baiting other stuff no gloves. When pulling stuff out and when drilling etc. gloves and then after getting a fish a dish towel to dry the hands. Want to get some Ice Armor X gloves need new gloves BAD!
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I have been using black non- latex mechanics gloves. They are tougher than surgical gloves, but still don't affect the feel. If it is cold, I put on fishing "Glomits"which are a fingerless glove, with a mitten cover you put on when you don't need fingers. They are just light fleece, but it has been enough out here, where it does not get below zero. This last month it has been so warm, I just use the rubber gloves, and put my hands in a muff with a hand warmer when I get cold.
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The best gloves are the 2nd pair you brought. As they hopefully will be dry
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I use neoprene gloves for end of the day clean up, hands down they keep your hands warm enough to wrap tip up with out freezing as we usually have 30 out...I hook an old shirt or towel onto my bibs with a beanie clip so I always have a drying rag handy.