Keeping your hands warm?

[icefishermanmark]

Guys I'm wondering how you all keep your hands from freezing off when you fish? I wear a pair on convertable mittens, so that I can re-bait when needed, and so I can use my fingers if I need them. Although these are ok, on a windy or really cold day (like this coming weekend) it's just not enough. I know bigger gloves is always an answer, but it's such a pain in the butt, constantly putting them on and taking them off. I've been dealing with this issue for a while, and always just tough it out, but this weekend it may get dangerous. Any suggestions, or is it a "deal with it" situation?

Thanks

[patcheroo]

HAND WARMERS!! Slide them in your gloves and go!...........Patch

[WALLEYE MIKE]

Fish from a shanty with a heater.

[RyGuy525]

I use the hand warmers but it got to much for me yesterday and my buddy and i had to get out of the wind. My fingers stopped working and i couldn't put waxworms on anymore. I guess you just kind of have to tough it out.

[stinger63]

Depends on how much equipment I lug with me.If Im traveling lite I use handwarmers in gloves and otherwise a heater in a shanty.Depends though sometimes my hands never get cold if I have been fishing alot in the cold.

[funebonz880]

I wear light, camoskinz gloves from cabelas. Those are for dexterity and putting on waxworms. Then for jigging, and reeling in fish, while keeping my hands warm, i put ice armor mittens over them. I usually put handwarmers in the mittens, and then..viola, toasty hands.

[initforfun]

I use one of those hand sleeve things you wear around your waist that you can slide your hands in and out of from the sides. I pack a few chemical hand warmers in there on the way to the ice and that keeps it really warm and when I need to re-rig or grab my deadstick it's quick and easy.

[Bucky]

For a little heater my propane heater is the best investment i have ever used for ice fishing. It gives off just as much heat as a big lantern and is half the size.

[icefishermanmark]

ok, I kind of got the responses I was expecting. The shanty is a good idea, and I know it works, but I like to move around quite a bit. I may have to try the handwarmers. Any other ideas are welcome!!

[bigair]

Nokia black rubber mittens with pile inserts. They are warm and with a quick snap of the hands, they are off to rebait. Really helpful when the action heats up. Waterproof too, so you can handle and grip fish with them. They inserts are easily removed to wash. I've had the same pair for over 15 years.:D

[flavo]

try a joni warmer You fill them with zippo fluid light them and put them in your pocket. you can look them up....dunhams sells them .

[HeavyF150]

I must be one of the lucky ones, I rarely wear gloves outside in the winter, and if I do it's usually just for protection from whatever it is I'm doing (wood cutting, working on something metal). My hands will usually get good and cold once a day outside and then once they warm back up I'm good to go. The one thing that I can't seem to protect them from is water, and I have a pair of waterproof gloves to protect them from that. As long as they stay dry they won't get cold, even outside the shanty. Even when it's really cold, like maybe this coming weekend, all I'll wear will be a pair of brown jersey gloves.

[Bobberboy]

I ve been using the blue nitrite (spell) latex gloves under my wool gloves and they work great, can bait, change my rig and unhook fish and never get my hands wet, but it don't work if your hands sweat alot thou.

[woodie slayer]

the only time i wear gloves is when i auger a hole. the rest of the time i don't need them .if my hand gets cold i slide it in my pocket a minute and it's fine.the more you go with out gloves the tougher your hands will get. believe it or not my hands acctually sun tan during winter

[joeleone]

I must be one of the lucky ones, I rarely wear gloves outside in the winter, and if I do it's usually just for protection from whatever it is I'm doing (wood cutting, working on something metal). My hands will usually get good and cold once a day outside and then once they warm back up I'm good to go. The one thing that I can't seem to protect them from is water, and I have a pair of waterproof gloves to protect them from that. As long as they stay dry they won't get cold, even outside the shanty. Even when it's really cold, like maybe this coming weekend, all I'll wear will be a pair of brown jersey gloves.

Nice boat Heavy I've got the same one 19' spectrum my grandpa left me awhile ago! oh yeah and I use Arctic Armor gloves or a heater and shanty.

[Houghton laker]

I have a pair of mittens I got from Cabelas about 25 yrs. ago.....they have built in round heaters like the Joni......you fill them with the fluid and ignite them....slip them into a seperate compartment for the heater.....and it sits right around your fingers and lasts for around 10 hrs.!!! They still work great....I just never use them anymore because I'm in a shanty if it is that cold out!! With the trap shanties....it is nothing to jump around still and just flip the cover up!

[eddiejohn4]

I move around alot also, but I have to tell ya I use a shanty and heater. :)

[UNCLE AL]

The best thing I've found to do is to wear a pair of fingerless gloves under a pair of Large or XL snowmobile, gauntlet gloves. The outer gloves come off fast when you have to fight a fish, or rebait, and the fingerless ones will keep you warmer than not having any on. I also use solid fuel heaters, and keep them in my jacket pockets, My jacket has slash pockets(handwarmer pockets) that's where the warmers go. Keeps the belly warm also.

[sfw1960]

IFM ,
I've had a new Shappell 3000 that's NOT been used in the three years I've had it (Gift from Wife).
The trick is to bring another HD jacket to put OVER your other clothes to make you "overheat" , I use fingerless WOOL gloves that I put one of the large hand/body warmers into and I also have one of those pocket-mitt-tube things you wear around your waist WITH a warmer in there too. I jig for pannies & eyes - I was out on 20-25MPH winds last W/E chasin' 'eyes and a few guys I was with said "you're a better man than I am" (which is far from the truth) , from the comfort of their shanty door.
:lol:
I was dressed for the wind , several layers , long johns , windbreaker under my waterproof pants & parka with another down filled parka overtop. I also wear a thinsulate radar cap that keeps the heat IN.... I think if you try this approach you'll be impressed with the results , I cannot help you with the dry chapped hands afterward though.
:rant:

[UNCLE AL]

I was dressed for the wind , several layers , long johns , windbreaker under my waterproof pants & parka with another down filled parka overtop. I also wear a thinsulate radar cap that keeps the heat IN.... I think if you try this approach you'll be impressed with the results , I cannot help you with the dry chapped hands afterward though.

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I agree with the layering as the best way to go, but once the feet and hands go, you're headed for the truck.

Bag Balm works good on the chapped hands.

[sfw1960]

My point was dress to the point of overheating (put the last layer on once you're out there) and you can have a lot of heat pouring OUT of your hands & it's still OK (do not forego the chem. warmers in the gloves though. Patch was DEAD ON...) !
I didn't even think about feet here... 1200 gram thinsulate KL0dH0pperz on my feet work WITHOUT wool soX....
:lol:

[SR-Mechead]

My hands never used to get cold but this year has been a little different with the wind blowing all the time. I have been looking for a good glove and most of the ones I found have been 40 thinsulate, but yesterday in the Cabelas book I found some 200 thinsulate and I think they will be the ones for me. I just got some 600 thinsulate boots and my feet still sweat in them.
Oh ya it's 10:30 Thursday morning and I just came in from fishing:lol: .Have a nice day
Bob

[Robert Hoover]

get a pair of joka therms with the hightek inserts on and off real easy stay warm even when they get wet inside waterproff outsides

[Cherokee]

Simms fingerless fleece gloves with the fold over mitten for the actual fishing.

I also have a pair of those Skadanavian black rubber / textured mittens with the fleece lining for walking out /in, reeling in tippies or gathering my catch off the ice. The black mittens get a hand warmer in 'em in case I get cold while fishing - I can just slip 'em on. The key is to stay dry and those black ones are waterproof. Use a pliers to get the hook out so your fingers don't get all wet from the fish.

The Simms' are the ticket though! Warm even if damp.

[mcanes1]

Fish from a shanty with a heater.
:yeahthat:

Clam voyager and a 8,000 - 14,000 propane heater. You can fish with shorts and a tank top. And it's just as portable as sitting on a bucket.
Hands stay warm, lines don't ice up. Holes don't freeze up. No one can tell if your limiting out. Just have to be careful! Warm shanties has been known to cause naps on the ice:D .

[SR-Mechead]

[QUOTE=Cherokee]Simms fingerless fleece gloves with the fold over mitten for the actual fishing.

I also have a pair of those Skadanavian black rubber / textured mittens with the fleece lining for walking out gathering my catch off the ice.

Must not use the Skadanavian gloves very much.:lol: :lol: Just kidding Rob

[Allegan]

Many years ago on an ice covered lake many miles away , my grandfather told me "nothins warmer than mittens cause your fingers keep eachother warm " I don't need covering my hands often but the best I ever had were over size snowmobile mittens . Stick them between your knees and pull your hands out that quick . DON'T get them wet !!! Nothing works then . And stay away from bare steel . Stick em in your pockets , under your arms , up your sleeves , up your buddies sleeves :dizzy: , what ever it takes but keep on fishin .:yikes:

[Cherokee]

[quote=Cherokee]Simms fingerless fleece gloves with the fold over mitten for the actual fishing.

I also have a pair of those Skadanavian black rubber / textured mittens with the fleece lining for walking out gathering my catch off the ice.

Must not use the Skadanavian gloves very much.:lol: :lol: Just kidding Rob

You got that right Bob!!:lol: