I fish without any type of shelter, so gloves are an important part of staying warm. I actually have a number of pairs that go on the ice with me...I start the day with neoprenes because I'm setting tip-ups so my hands are constantly in the water. Once my hands start to cool off because if the perspired moisture on the inside, I switch to military inserts...the olive green wool gloves. They aren't very thick, but they allow a sensitive touch for jigging. Like billybono said, the most important hand-warming piece of equipment is the hand muff. It allows me to keep at least one hand warm at a time and on cold days I can transfer minnows from the bucket to the tip-ups in the hand muff without worrying about them freezing in my hand.
