Winter Fishing Gloves

Ski gloves are the warmest. They're not the best for fishing.
Especially if you're baiting. 🙂

I buy the cutoff hobo style gloves at the Gap outlet. Like $3 a pair. I can usually get through a season with 1 pair.

I have tried many different gloves over the years and the older I get the colder my fingers seem to be.

In my own experience find it to be a bit of a "Catch 22". The warmest gloves tend to be fleece on their own or fleece linings with a rubber over glove. The problem here is they are bulky and clumsy for anything other than just holding the rod and cranking the reel. If you are fishing with only lures it could be a viable way to go.

So, when I am bait fishing I just suck it up and use the glacier gloves. They are waterproof/bait proof and have enough dexterity for me to bait my hook without having to remove the glove each time I reel in to rebait or remove a fish.

I know Glacier does make a fleece lined version but they also tend to be on the bulky side. If anyone has a better suggestion that has the dexterity to bait up without removal but are warmer than the standard neoprene glacier gloves I am all ears.

Sometimes while surfcasting on a really cold day I put a couple of thermal pads I have used while hunting in my Aqua Skinz gloves, along the palm, and occasionally take out my fingers to encircle them. Excepting when I clam belly once a year and simply suck it up, I don't use bait (except for Gulp) anymore but I do have some dexterity with the AquaSkinz although they are mostly useless with regard to preventing the debilitating cold. that sting reminds me of snowball fights in the 60s but I could take it then.

I use wool glove liners from LL Bean. They are not cheap nor expensive and then use nitrile gloves over. They keep my hands dry and warm. I have enough dexterity to do what I need. If I have to take them off to do something its quick to get on and off.

I find as long as my hands are dry I can keep them warm.

The more you do it. You'll start to notice you don't need gloves.
Blackfishing on the fair boats and working your way to cod fishing
through the winter months will condition you. You'll notice a con-
struction worker or outdoor laborer will have no use for the gloves.
Always remember these words. No matter what elements you're
up against. IT'S YOU! 😉

Thanks everyone, I'll take a look into all the options. @pequa1 that's what I'm talking about, the sting is brutal that I feel like I will drop the rod because I can't feel anything. I've only done cod fishing in the summer, but would like to explore more in the winter months. Chunkster I guess that's true, the more you do it, the more conditioned you get to it. These were the gloves I used.

I have the glacier gloves and experience the same thing you do.
Sometimes at Georges Bank it gets so cold. The tip of your rod
ices and your line freezes. You cant crank until you break the ice
off of the tip of your rod.

This would also happen while trout fishing in the CatSkills NY.
The trout fishing was excellent but it was blistering cold. Fishing
in a area with fast moving water is the last to freeze. 😉

Chunk, those look nice. Where did you see them?

Ever since I got a small case of hypothermia at Fort Dix one winter in the 80s, I really don't do cold. If I have to wear gloves surfcasting its not a whole afternoon affair for me. And defrosted clams bellying ? Fuhgeddaboudit. People that know my aversion to being cold (hell, we bought a heater for our pool !) laugh at my love of deer hunting, but being on land with the truck nearby and all the clothes you can wear and still move is quite different than getting wet a lot. Deer hunting ? Fleece gloves once the weather drops below 40. and always remember, "wool warms and cotton kills."

Wool is a animal, it's itchy and oily.

For many years I owned a winter crab boat. We needed to keep our hands warm for eight hours while working outdoors. Idle fingers are cold fingers. Tight gloves cause cold fingers. Wet fingers are frozen fingers. We would wear a pair of thin polypropylene glove liners. Over the liner, we wore a commercial rubber glove which only had a thin cloth liner. If you buy the fuzzy, thick-lined gloves, you will get cold without the liner to keep the perspiration off your hands. The problem with the thick, fuzzy gloves is trying to dry them. The poly liner will keep the moisture off your fingers. The thin rubber glove lining absorbed the sweat from your hands. We would change out our gloves a few times throughout the day. Fortunately, we had a heater in the cabin, like a heater in a car. We put a small clothes line in front of the heater to hang our gloves. Without the thick, fuzzy liner, our gloves dried quickly in front of the heater. You can buy a bunch of liners and rubber work gloves for the price of expensive ski gloves. Once the sweat is absorbed into a ski glove, your hands will get cold and stay cold. One other thing, we wore our gloves loose but tight enough to work. Too tight cuts the blood circulation and your hands will get cold. We do the same thing with our boots.

I almost lost 2 fingers on my left hand on a table saw two years ago. After that those two fingers feel like its going to fall off after a few hours fishing in the cold.
I tried all types of gloves from wool to thinsulate to ski gloves, but the ones I use these days is an Atlas 460 glove.


It's easy on and off even with wet hands and warms them up in real quick. It's a bit bulky but the rubber texture makes grabbing things easy.

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