Purchased with the hope of finding a winter glove for heavy fishing in extreme temps (not your TN 45 degree “winter”). I live on IL/WI boarder. I fish up through ice in, and fish open water in the lower Midwest region in the dead of winter. This means single digit temps, sleet, wind, snow, all the nasty stuff. Need a glove that is dry and warm. This isn’t it. It’s made for mediocre winters in the south. The two biggest issues, material and lack of it. These are over sites that perhaps weren’t considered when designers were thinking of this gloves creation, without actually putting it in the field. I fish 225+ days a year. Heavy tournament load, and practice all year round. The outer material is EXTREMELY snaggy. If you fish in the winter, you fish jerkbaits and baits with small sticky trebles. You you cannot touch a bait without these hooks getting stuck in the gloves, leaving you having to take them off to deal with your bait, worthless when it’s 12 degrees out and you need to keep feeling in the digits. The liners, terrible idea to leave three fingers exposed if you’re touting these as true winter gloves. Palming a baitcaster is primarily using these exposed fingers and the cold transfer from metal to digits through the outer gloves is fast and unrelenting. I’ve already gotten rid of the liners for full fingered of a differing brand. Two trips out, Megabass jerkbait hooks have absolutely destroyed the thin goretex material on the tips, now they’re no longer “waterproof”. True winter gloves need to be warm, durable, and made so you can leave them on and do what you need to do. Simms if you read this, full liners, and for the outer material, use a heavier goretex outer.
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