gloves

Dont hate me because im beautiful.  and while we are on the topic, have you seen my feet? wow!
im just slaying myself today. My Side! My side!

For All,

I think the 2 smartasses Shawn was referring to was Scott and myself.  Scott's and my first posts have been removed for the thread, mine by me, and I imagine Scott took his off as well.  Neither of them were all that bad but have caused confusion as to who said what.

So Shawn did nothing except ask the original question, then respond to what he thought were barbs from Scott and I (no one else).


Dale

Hi Shawn:

          I use the finger cutout type from FW. I have a old style
Parka from L.L. Bean that I stuff my hands in the pockets. I keep
 hand Towels in my Parkas' pockets to keep my Fingers dry.
         
                                                                  
                                          Less fishing time= Cabin Fever!
                                          Ernie
                                                    
          

There was a time when I could paddle 38-degree snowmelt barehanded...no more.

We "aging paddlers" ----well, no...speaking just for myself as an ageing paddler:  I've found that from, say, age 50, I've developed a serious (and increasing) need for neoprene gloves.

At age 68 I'm subject to cramping.....not what what I'd normally call, you know, painful "cramping"....What's happening is kind of a numb stiffness that results in inability to open the hand or to close it with real force after prolonged (4-5 hrs) exposure (the typical alternate immersion of the hands, and then exposure to air).

Such a condition is incompatible with doing the E-roll.   So I recently had a little sit-down with myself and decided that gloves are no longer optional for me.

One can manage a bait-casting reel with neoprene gloves, but not a spinning reel.

I find that my ability to handle my shotgun (duck hunting) is not impeded by neoprene gloves.

Another thing......I wear a pair of very heavy wool hiking socks inside my neoprene booties.   Man---I love them socks---they keeps me so warm and cozy.

Judd

Hi Judd,

Do the booties keep your feet dry too?  Or you mean the wool socks keep you dry even when wet?

I recently picked up a pair of wet boots from NRI that are warm only until they get wet.  Just wondering if wool socks are worth a try... but it seems like they'd only soak up water.

I wear my booties in my boat...they don't really get heavy-duty WET...

It's NOTHING like if you were diving with them.

So yeah, the way I wear them they stay dry and keep my feet very nice and warm.

But wool is good stuff; even when wet (not saturated) it offers thermal protection.

Try it......you can't ever go wrong experimenting.

Judd

Well my problem may be I haven't figured out how to launch my kayak without stepping in water. 

It was like wearing bags of water on my feet.

Right.

From a beach, I flop my boat on the sand a little into the zone where high waves will reach and float it.   Then I sit with both legs dangling over either side and wait for enough water from a low wave to wash the sand from my foot-bottoms....because I don't like to have sand in my boat.     When a big waves comes and partly floats my boat I "knuckle" it down-beach with my fists and then assist with my paddle-blade.   Sometimes it'll take a couple waves to get me floating.

From a river bank I'll look for a place that ramps straight down into the water.   Get fully into my boat at the top of the bank and then push off......go skidding down the bank and into the water (called a "Seal Entry).

Judd

From a river bank I'll look for a place that ramps straight down into the water.   Get fully into my boat at the top of the bank and then push off......go skidding down the bank and into the water (called a "Seal Entry).

Then the current hits you sideways and your swimming like a Seal.

Somehow I don't think that beach entry method would work too well at Bean Hollow.

Mickfish....it's fun...

It goes...

RUBBA RUBBA RUBBA....and then....splash.......
If there's current, you just lean downstream.

I was standing in REI one day and on one of their TV screens they were running a film of a guy who did a seal-entry from a half-mile up this mountain.   He got in his boat and started down....he crossed meadows....shale.....funnelled into a gully....and finally, splash, into a river.    You couldn't not laugh, as you watched it.  It went on forever.  It must have been the "final run" for his oldest boat.

Judd

In cool breezy marginal conditions, try dishwashing gloves. Your hands will sweat and be wet in them, but they still do a good job of keeping the breeze from cooling them down. Better yet, it's a cheap experiment. Oh, I haven't really tried this one, but a dark color may help on the solar front.