My hands are always freezing. In fact, I’m sitting in my office (75 degrees on the thermostat) and my hands are cool to the touch.
I’m looking for gloves that will keep my hands comfortable (at least prevent the painful numbness) yet have some dexterity for fishing.
What are you guys finding out there that works. I’ve resorted to a hand muff with a hand warmer in it.
75 degrees and they are still cold? Might be something more tan gloves can solve. I late buddy of mine had some serious circulation issues and always started freezing up somewhere in the mid to upper 60s.
Keep your core warm and maybe look at some of the heated gloves and clothes on the market today.
Guess Im one of the lucky guess that just dont get cold hands until extreme conditions. 5 to 10 degrees out and Im still scoping ice out of the holes with my hands while hole hopping. The only gloves I own are the cheap brown ones. Maybe its gust that all the pain receptors are dead in my hands.
I don’t think there is a glove that will keep my fingers from freezing. I have to use warmers in both my gloves and my boots. And it doesn’t get any better with age 
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75 degrees and they are still cold? Might be something more tan gloves can solve. I late buddy of mine had some serious circulation issues and always started freezing up somewhere in the mid to upper 60s.
Keep your core warm and maybe look at some of the heated gloves and clothes on the market today.
Sorry, more info. I’m hot blooded. My core is a furnace. I am extremely comfortable in cooler weather, but my hands and feet are always cold. Obviously a poor circulation thing. I layer all the time and dress appropriately, the core is never the issue.
I don’t wear gloves very often just because I like being able to feel the fish. That said, when I do wear gloves I wear the fingerless ragg wool gloves with the flip over mitten piece. I like the ones with thinsulate and a full thumb (not cut off). The best thing is that they can get a little bit wet and you’ll still stay warm because they’re wool.
Another thing I’ve tried is bringing a 6 pack of those brown cotton gloves in the boat. Once a pair gets wet just put on a dry pair. That works pretty well, too, but I like the wool glommits (I think that’s what they’re called)better.
If you’re talking about ice fishing, try the ice armour gloves. They’re pretty great, but you can’t really fish with them on.
Neoprene gloves suck in my opinion. They don’t breathe so they get clammy, and then you’re done. Even the fleece lined ones like glacier gloves.
In my experience, the best thing you can do to keep your hands warm is to keep the rest of yourself warm. When you get cold your body concentrates blood in your core, which means you don’t get good circulation in your hands.
Here’s what I have to use
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Here’s what I have to use
Oh yeah, I got a dozen of those for x-mas.
I wasn’t too bad until I hit 50
I am using the UA Fleece glove with a hand warmer that fits into the back of the hand where blood circulates. UA fleece glove When I catch a fish the left glove comes off to handle the fish and the right glove sometimes stays on to remove jig/lure. I then wipe off water/slime on a dry towel that stays on the interior of my snosuit jacket. My hands get cool but never that cold. The handwarmer and dry towel help out a lot! 
Anybody have any reviews on the battery powered gloves on the market today like Gerbing’s or one of the other manufacturers? Would imaging these have come aways from the old heated wool socks that the wires would start to melt in. Heard more stories about hot feets from those socks.
guys who work outside taught me a “trick”.. they said not to wear gloves until you “have to”… that your hands get used to the cold.. I drive my wife to campus every day and I see kids there wearing gloves when it was 60 outside in the morning.. if you don’t start wearing gloves until you can’t “take it” you would be surprised how cold it needs to be before you wear them.. for me now. at age 54 is like below 10.. anything below ten degrees.. then I wear them and its closer to zero.. but about 8, 7, 4, something like that, I put them on.. I haven’t worn long johns for 40 years.. but if I need to spend time out side , I use insulated bibs.. and just Walls.. no big deal.. and they are 30 years old..
but if its DAMP AND COLD.. You got me.. 30 and rain, I am a dead man.. shivering beyound belief..
that being said.. deer skin gloves have been my glove of choice for 35 years.. the kind with the red insulation pack.and not the fluffy kind.. I wear them until I wear a hole in them.. and then I wear them some more .. until my left index finger sticks out.. ( it’s my driving hand)..
for fishing.. hospital exam gloves are excellent, and cheap.. buy a box and put them in your truck, boat, ice house or where ever.. you put you hand in the water..its cold.. take it out.. its warm.. and dry.. rip one.. put one on.. big deal 10 cents..
try drinking a 12 pack when your out there or better yet bring a flask of whiskey or something. that’ll keep ya warm. or at least make you think your warm. 
I thought I was the King of Cold Hands till I discovered one of the few perks of being a heart patient. Take one of the little dynamite pills they give ya and put under your tongue. Within a couple minutes your circulation improves to the stage of you being toasty warm. Never fails, doc sez it won’t hurt ya either 
jerr
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Back in the good ol’ days- -What we used to do “down on the farm” when we had to be out most of the day feeding and opening water holes is to pile on the wool socks, wear 5 buckle overshoes-no shoes or boots, mittens-not gloves, and wrap a scarf around your face. A stocking cap is a must-have item.
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try drinking a 12 pack when your out there or better yet bring a flask of whiskey or something. that’ll keep ya warm. or at least make you think your warm.
I know you are joking about this but thought I would comment anyways. Drinking cold beverages is the quickest way to cold hands, feet and body. Even one cold beverage and I notice the cooling effects. Core temp drops and the hands and feet go cold right away.
Hot beverages have the opposite effect as many know. Never used to be a coffee fan but do drink it in the winter just for the warming effects.
Hey, you got a nice $40.00 pair of my gloves!
Hot chocolate or hot Broth if you don’t like coffee will keep the body warm also Mike
Caffeinated coffee constricts blood vessels as does all caffeinated drinks.
Your much better off going with hot chocolate or some other warm, decaffeinated beverage.
IRON CLAD COLD WEATHER GLOVES from menards work for me fishing skis late fall during lockup. I will also use athletic wrist bands and stick and hand warmer on the inside of your wrist under the band, seems to help keep your circulation a little warmer.
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IRON CLAD COLD WEATHER GLOVES from menards work for me fishing skis late fall during lockup. I will also use athletic wrist bands and stick and hand warmer on the inside of your wrist under the band, seems to help keep your circulation a little warmer.
On this note, in the spring when night fishing for walleyes, I will often take one of those small hand warmers and slip it inside my glove on the back side of my hand. This allows me to use a lighter pair of gloves and helps a lot with keeping them warm. A towel to dry my hands after catching a fish is a must!
Our spring night fishing starts as soon as the ice melts enough to permit access to open water with a pair of waders.
You could try the more frugal means of sticking your hands in your pants.
Try a pair of Fleece gloves that are lined with 40 grams of Thinsulate. Warmest “Fishable” gloves I have found. Cheap too!
-J.
I still like the Ice Armor gloves I got a few years back.
Don’t know if you smoke or chew, but nicotine is a vasoconstrictor also…reducing circulation to the extremities.
I prefer Wool Gloves without the finger tips,can’t get um wet tho,they come off when the hand goes in the water.
The Frabil water gloves James had on his last show look
to be worth a try.
As long as my hands stay dry I don’t have problems with the cold weather.
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Don’t know if you smoke or chew, but nicotine is a vasoconstrictor also…reducing circulation to the extremities.
No smoking, chewing, pop or coffee for me.
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I thought I was the King of Cold Hands till I discovered one of the few perks of being a heart patient. Take one of the little dynamite pills they give ya and put under your tongue. Within a couple minutes your circulation improves to the stage of you being toasty warm. Never fails, doc sez it won’t hurt ya either
you know now that you mentioned that,they do warm you up rather quickly,hell they even warm my ears up!
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IRON CLAD COLD WEATHER GLOVES
Seriously these gloves work and you still have finger dexterity. When I worked construction IF it was cold enough tohave to wear gloves (usually 10 degrees and below) these were the gloves I wore. Otherwise Check out the new FXE gloves from Frabil they seem to look like a very well designed warm glove
i use these. 
i mod them though. i cut the fingers off. the flip over has a zipper pouch for hand warmers. and the thumb flip over and the finger flip over also are attached by magnets and not velcro with is nice not getting line stuck in.
wow I am shocked that no one else mentions surgical or exam gloves.. Don Woodruff, wrote an article for Fishing facts back in 1972 about using them..( now thats dating me) I since then I have found them to be great.. maybe they are stupid looking.. but for me looks don’t count.. warmth and feel do..
and these are great gloves..
like latex gloves? i use them for bbqing and handling meat. would of never thought they’d be effective in the cold.
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