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Yes, I was put under oath at a very formal and secret meeting of the minds and was lucky enough to be selcted to test out the gloves.....
At fist I was skeptical, I've got major arthritis in my right hand, which is also my dominant hand. If you got arthriths, you know how bad that sucks. I've used a lot of gloves in the past, they work, but only for a short period of time. Try to switch plugs, or tie on a new leader with gloves on...yeah right! So you have to take them off to do it, then the one between your teeth falls out into the wash and now it's wet. It's a downward spiral from there. The Simms glvoes I used were nice, kept my hands warm, but the cut off fingers didn’t do me much good, once your hand starts to get cold it's over.
So Kadir shows me the gloves, I check them out and try them on. Wow, thses things fit real nice, but they seem kind of thin. Kadir assured me that even though they were thin they would keep my hands warm. Ok, what the hell, I'll believe him.
This fall I put them to the test. Lipping fish with them, leaving them soaking wet in the pocket of the jacket, climbing on rocks with them, using them as I would any other pair of gloves. I was very impressed. The gloves do get wet, but they keep your hands warm, real warm. The coolest thing about them is that you can infact tie knots with them, without it being a total cluster f&*ck. Finger gards and sports tape are a thing of the past when casting braid. The index finger has another layer of material so the braid doesn’t effect the glove.
Very slick, very durable, and very warm.
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