Fly Fishing - Cold Weather Clothing for Winter Fishing...

fishgolf · Newbie Joined: Feb 04, 2006 Posts: 6

Who makes the best gloves to fish in the cold? Full finger or half?
Mickey

Shaq · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject:

Simms...no contest

jeremy · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: hmmm

tough question really -- i have found that if the gloves are too thick - i can't feel my rod good enough - never mind feel connected to my fly.

so - i usually am willing to sacrafice a little warmth for a little more feel - however - with that said - i do use thin full lenght gloves NOT cut offs...but that is just my preference...also - i have not found a manufacturer in the fly fishing world that can compare with ski apparel manufacturers. look in ski/snowboard shops for some nice thin gloves - in my opinion they got the technology and the fabric licked for warm + thin --- light years ahead of what any fishing company could produce.....

just an option --- although i have never seen the gloves shaq mentions - so his suggestion could be better than mine -- but certainly worth stopping into a ski/snowboard shop and poking around for thin + warm.

NHtrouthunter · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:39 am Post subject:

Simms Windstopper Gloves....

patm · Newbie Joined: Apr 19, 2004 Posts: 36

I found a pair of water resisitent fingerless gloves at llbeans. the neat thing about these gloves is there is a pocket to hold a hand warmer. Simply put the hand warmer into the pocket, put the glove on and go for it.
Finger tips still suffer but with the hand warmer they quickly recoup.

heyjonah · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

i have some windstopper ones by Wind River that Bean sells, but i'm not sure i'd reccommend them. they're glove/mitts, and the mitten part keeps coming unstitched. i'm on my 3rd pair.
another thing to think about: the best way to keep hands warm i've found is to "shake the blood back into them" every once in a while. kinda works against the adaptation that keeps our core warm and shunts blood away from the extremities, but when your hands get cold it doesn't take much blood from away from your guts to get 'em warm again. it's the same motion as like shaking water off your hands, just harder longer and repeated. ya start with your arms up, then fling 'em down hands first like you're tryin to throw your hands at the ground. do it a bunch of times, you'll actually feel the blood start to swell your fingers and they start tinglin like you put 'em in warm water....'cause you kind of did. works every single time, whether hands are cold, wet, both, whatever. once they're warm your gloves are a lot more effective too.
Peace,

Mark