Best gloves for ice fishing

I have owned many different kinds of gloves for ice fishing and was curious to what you guys have figured out for a good glove that keeps you dry, warm, and able to use your hands. I recently bought the ice force fishing glove and it does decent but considering the warmer ones too… Whats been your experience?

The frabill gauntlet is the best I have owned. The ice force gloves are pretty good too, and very reasonable. The worst are the striker ice. They aren’t warm, and tore the second time I wore them. They aren’t cheap. Other than that they are great.

I dont think there is such a thing as “dry, warm, and able to use your hands.
Other than basic movements or handling a deployed rod you have to remove your gloves for virtually everything else. In that case you can use whatever keeps your hands warm and is easy to take off and put back on.

I like the striker ice gloves myself. Warm,comfortable and are water resistant all the way to the top of the cuff.

suzuki wrote:

I dont think there is such a thing as “dry, warm, and able to use your hands.
Other than basic movements or handling a deployed rod you have to remove your gloves for virtually everything else. In that case you can use whatever keeps your hands warm and is easy to take off and put back on.

This I agree with. I do use the basic work gloves you can buy 5 pairs of for like $7. You can buy brown, black, and blaze. I use them for everything outdoors, duck hunting, deer hunting, fishing. And if I get them too wet, I just pull out another pair as they pack light and are inexpensive. I take them home and throw them in the wash afterwards.

ET

I’ve been using these this season. Work great. Not super warm. I have thrown in a hand warmer in the flip over part a couple of times. Works good. I like having the use of my fingers without taking the gloves off.

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I have the Frabill FXE Task Gloves. I went through last winter with warm and dry hands so that should tell you something.

I use two light gloves that keep me warm dry and allow for movement. I wear the little kid style cotton gloves and over the top of those I use the Berkeley fishing gloves that have a rubber side. They are the same thing as you can find in blue for about 4 or 5 dollars. I don’t like to wear gloves and I agree that there is no perfect answer

I have heard great things about Kast Gear steelhead gloves. They are a bit spendy, but I have a couple friends that rave about them. At $80, I am wary of biting…… But I think I just may have to. Normally, I wear good old fashioned choppers for everything outside, and nothing when in the house.

T

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All i wear, last several years. Have gone through a few pairs. Very thin. Easy on/off. I rarely wear gloves; but when i do i wear these.

I own a box full of the big bulky gloves. They never ever get used.

BTW, there is not perfect glove!

I have a pair of Kast Gear gloves but in my opinion they’re to hard to get on and off. My 2 favorite gloves are the Frabill Gauntlet & Task gloves with the Gauntlet gloves being first. They’re super warm and when you do need to get them off there’s not a glove easier to shed. If it’s not real cold out and I’m hole hopping and just want the wind kept off my hands the Under Armor Cold Gear thin gloves are nice too just not water proof.

I have ice armor extreme gloves and love them but the seam on the first set came apart after a week. Got a replacement set and a week later a spot on one of them started to come apart again this time i stiched it up and its been good since.

I like a pair of fingerless ragg wool gloves and stuff a hand warmer in the back. Maybe another pair for my palm on cold days. Seems it is when my gloves are off completely that my hands freeze and take a long time to warm back up. A Ice Armour mit over those for the walk out and other idle times has been plenty. IDO hoodie pouch is also readily available and at times that second set of hand warmers is in the pouch.

I almost always walk out and never use a shack or heat source other than drilling more holes.

Black, Thinsulate lined deer skin gloves. They’re thin enough to keep on while jigging, and heavy enough for running the auger or driving the ATV (with handle mits). And, the black absorbs the heat nicely. They will get wet after a day of handling fish, but will dry out overnight.