Pike Gloves

[Elton]

Posted on behalf of Keith. Please add all responses to this thread:

 

Can anyone advise me which is the best glove to buy for lifting pike out of the water? I'm fed up with mincing my hand and the band aids are costing me a fortune!!!

[Peter Waller]

Tesco heavy duty rubber household gloves. Avoid filleting gloves like the plague, the mesh sticks to the rakers in the pikes gills. Alternatively, buy a landing net!

[chesters1]

band aid was a pretty crap group anyway both you mincing and the pike are better of without them

[Grandma]

Tesco heavy duty rubber household gloves. Avoid filleting gloves like the plague, the mesh sticks to the rakers in the pikes gills. Alternatively, buy a landing net!

 

I agree with the comment about filleting gloves, but these are the best gloves for lifting pike out of the water, by a long, long way:

 

 

available from:

 

http://www.thelureshack.com/lureshack_flash.html

 

They are much better than rubber gloves. They are extremely thin, so you can cast and undo snap links while wearing them, so you can keep them on all day and there's no buggering about trying to put a glove on while holding a rod with a fish on.

Edited March 15, 2007 by Grandma

[Peter Waller]

They look good Grandma. I've not tried them, or even seen a pair. I can only say that my 99p Tesco black rubbers have never let me down, but how the compare I can only guess. Tempted to try though.

[Peter Waller]

P.S. At one time I thought that the Lure Shack's cataloger was a bit scarce, but that link is good, some very tasty lures and stuff in there now! Thanks GM.

[Trevor GL]

I bought a pair of the Gloves from the Lure shack £9:99 post paid on recommendation from a previous thread and they are superb you can wear them as ordinary gloves, they feel like a chamois leather and fit great, I have been using since December on several Pike and no Blood anymore.

[Neil G]

I bought a pair of the Gloves from the Lure shack £9:99 post paid on recommendation from a previous thread and they are superb you can wear them as ordinary gloves, they feel like a chamois leather and fit great, I have been using since December on several Pike and no Blood anymore.

 

Never use gloves but prefer to feel my way round the gil cover to the front where you can hold the fish securley without getting cut.

 

Takes a bit of practice but once you've got it sussed there's no need to use gloves.

[Grandma]

Never use gloves but prefer to feel my way round the gil cover to the front where you can hold the fish securley without getting cut.

 

Takes a bit of practice but once you've got it sussed there's no need to use gloves.

 

I'm glad you like the look of them Peter. Chico started importing them, and selling them privately I think he still has some pairs left: http://chicoslures.blogspot.com/

 

 

It's true you can get away without gloves, but if you're catching lots of pike in the 4-8lb bracket, then your knuckles are going to suffer at some point. That's assuming you hold onto the fish when it thrashes, rather than dropping it.

 

These gloves are great for chinning pike straight out of the water, you can do the job quickly without having to avoid the backs of your fingers getting wedged between the gill cover and first raker. Best of all, when you slip the fish back, your finger never snags on the raker, so you don't have to mess about trying to extract your finger without mincing it.

[Dick Dastardly]

Given the same gloves (got mine directly from Chico Winterton) a good try this season and can definately reccomend them.First glove in all these years that I have been happy to both use and reccomend.