[kingfisher]

After watching fishing programs from overseas this last few days it would seem the norm to wear these cotton type gloves when handling fish.

To my mind how how can these be better than the smooth wet skin of a hand when compared to the woven/knitted (ok micro) materials of these gloves?
Maybe they are superior and I’m missing the benefits but..........

Your thoughts?

 

[fly guy]

I tend to use Nitrile gloves but wet them before if I need handle fish. In most cases you don't even need to lift them out of the net. Ping out the hook hold the just at the water line if you need a picture and support the fish if it needs to recover and away. Never understand the need to drag them onto the bank unless of course releasing them by the waters edge isn't possible because of water depth or other hazards.

 

[Mac78]

After watching fishing programs from overseas this last few days it would seem the norm to wear these cotton type gloves when handling fish.

To my mind how how can these be better than the smooth wet skin of a hand when compared to the woven/knitted (ok micro) materials of these gloves?
Maybe they are superior and I'm missing the benefits but..........

Your thoughts?

a danger of tailing glove use

 

[Hemmy]

My own experience when fishing in warmer climes was that gloves were worn as follows
1) lightweight gloves to protect hands from the "dangerous" suns rays
2) a heavy weight glove(usually a bright colour) with a very "tacky " palm and fingers to ensure a firm grip on the "fish" which could be quite large and most of them had lots of large sharp teeth which were capable of causing a lot of damage
3) a "mail type" glove for dealing with very dangerous fish eg barracuda,sharks etc etc

I don't think the welfare of the fish came in to the equation

 

[Dryfly]

If worried about damage then don't touch. with a net there is no need. I agree with the above though. will wet hands damage a fish more than knitted thngs? Seems illogical to me. Keep your nails short though!

 

[Guest]

If I’m wearing gloves I only use nitrile gloves. I believe cotton or other thick gloves will either remove the fishes slime or pass on contamination to the fish.


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[twmtwm]

If warm hands are used to handle Salmon ,they quite often will burn the fish. Several years ago there was a hatchery programme on the river Teifi, while collecting broodstock you could tell what fish had been handled badly. The Salmon that had been just netted and cold hands or gloves used ,there wasn't a mark on them. The opposite on warm hand handled fish. In fact you could see the hand prints on the fish for weeks, especially if fresh run. A few went on to have a fungus develope and die. Insistently every deep hooked worm caught Salmon died.

 

[Loxie]

I think if you are being serious about CR you should handle the fish as little as possible. Wet hands seem kinder but maybe there is a good case for gloves, heat maybe? I prefer to use a net, unhook in the water and more often than not release the fish without touching. Or better still with the right fish,bash it on the head and eat it! It seems a bit of a faff to put on fish handling gloves while the fish is, presumably, waiting in the net.

 

[ZIMTROUT]

The newer rubberised nets are better surely than handling a fish??

 

[goosander]

I just wet my hands for all fish trout/salmon etc. With my luck and the size of my hands gloves would be a waste of time.
Bob