I know it sounds wrong, but if you hold your hands in the cold water, when you take them out and the circulation comes back, they'll feel really warm and you won't need gloves.
Used to do this often in winter when I worked for water board, repairing burst pipes. It was more active digging etc.but it worked.
If it's that cold now I will sooner stop in.
I fish about as much through winter as I do summer and I can't tolerate cold hands.
I've been using the Trakker mitts for the last few winters and find them hard to fault, whatever style of fishing you're doing.
When folded back to leave your fingers free the mitt part still keeps the backs of your hands warm (and those all important blood circulating veins on the surface) and they're very toasty when you've got them in full mode with your fingers inside, again there's enough room inside to allow for warm body heat to store which is something I find lacking with the fitted style of gloves.
A big plus is that you can tuck your cuffs in them and cut off that draft potential between glove and sleeve, even in the coldest temperatures I find that they are warm enough folded back so that your fingers are still exposed.
They were going silly cheap some time ago so it might pay to shop around but these are the beasts...
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The image doesn't show it but inside the mitt part there are separate finger extensions form the knuckle to around mid- finger which helps a lot...
Gloves are ok up to a point, fingerless better than the full monty but if you're stood on a river like the Trent with a northerly in your face when running a float downstream then one is not an option and the other is fine if you are doing a stint where you have your rod in its rest between bites, (I have foldbacks )other than that If the cold is extreme and I have to hold the rod all day then I was brought up like bracket.
I know it sounds wrong, but if you hold your hands in the cold water, when you take them out and the circulation comes back, they'll feel really warm and you won't need gloves.
Used to do this often in winter when I worked for water board, repairing burst pipes. It was more active digging etc.but it worked.
If it's that cold now I will sooner stop in.
I know it sounds silly but sometimes i had to break the ice and put my hands in the water,nearly made me cry when my fingers got so cold,but after that they were alright.happy days
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Gloves are ok up to a point, fingerless better than the full monty but if you're stood on a river like the Trent with a northerly in your face when running a float downstream then one is not an option and the other is fine if you are doing a stint where you have your rod in its rest between bites, (I have foldbacks )other than that If the cold is extreme and I have to hold the rod all day then I was brought up like bracket.
One guy back in the late sixties in a match outfit I used to fish with always gave the same advice "just - iss on yer'ands 'n av dun wi it".
It's because they have a small willy, they hold it with four fingers and p1ss on three.
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