The 8 mil did the trick fellas. I still went through 4 pair on 17 fish but these didn’t shred when they got a little puncture like the 4 mil did. My hands smell clean, old wounds feel great, no new damage. 👍🤠👍

I use the bamboo gardening gloves. (not the palm rubber coated)
The gloves are breathable but if you submerge the gloves your hands will be wet, but your hands are protected from scrapes and cuts.
I wring them out and they dry fast and they work well for screening hands from the sun.
I got the tip from a beyond the breakers kayaker!
I'm old and have that old thin skin and my hands cut easily and I use them for cleaning fish and never have had any problems.
Cleaned 50 whites at a time many times, and many catfish without any injury.

I hope the gloves help. I am getting old and clumsy, so for me it seems like between fish, rocks, knives, and hooks; if I ain’t bleeding, I ain’t fishing.

Get a pair of thick nitriles without cloth liner, that are loose on your hands but that don't fall off and cut a small bit of the fingertips off. The insides will get wet if you submerge them and there may be a little sweat. But they mostly dry out with the loose fit air ventilation after a few minutes, or you can quickly take them off and wear them inside out if the humidity is very high, then reverse them back and forth, as the day procedes. When the fingertip holes start to run, cut a small bit off again, to stop the run asap. They don't absorb odors as much as some others, and protect from the Sun.

This is what I use. They're cheap and work great and actually last a while. I usually throw them away because they stink not because they're worn out.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/FIRM-GR...3919?source=shoppingads&locale=en-US

The 8 mil worked great guys. I can’t have loose fitting gloves as they aren’t comfortable to wear all day and I can’t clip and unclip planer boards with them very good. Can’t have soggy wet gloves all day either. My hands get wet from throwing the cast net first thing in the morning Then I chop bait and they get slimy so I have to wash off the slime every time I re-bait hooks. Add on top of that catching and handling 20-35 fish throughout the day and I’m washing the slime off constantly. The great thing about the nitrile gloves is I can wash the slime off my hands 50 times per day and my hands dont get dirty lake water and slime in my old cuts. Hands stayed dry. At the end of last trip my hands smelled clean and my old cuts did not get reinfected. My paws are almost completely healed now and I can’t remember the last time my hands felt this good. The other great thing about those 8 mil nitrile gloves is all your touchscreen electronics like Ipilot Trolling motor remote, Iphone, graph, and GoPro touchscreens will all work with nitrile gloves. The only downside was I did puncture a few pairs hooking bait so I had to put a few new pairs on throughout the day.

Light colors of nitrile gloves are cooler in summer if you are out in the sun, sometimes the insides will be white that stays cool in blazing sun, and unflocked if you plan to reverse them.

I've got two pair of Rapala gloves in the boat. Brand new, never used except to drive the boat in cold weather. I'm always using the fish grippers.

I use fish grippers for 10 lb fish and up. Can’t hardly get a grippers in an eaters mouth without grabbing it and jamming the gripper in there. And what about handling and chopping bait? Most of my cuts and abrasions aren’t from the actual fish. Most are from having wet hands all day which makes the callous soft and easily damaged. Grabbing lines to unclip boards, knuckle scrapes, and who knows what else. In the heat of battle when 2-3 rods are going down or I have a big fish hooked up I will bang around like a caveman trying to get the landing net ready or move other rods out of the way fighting a bigger fish. Getting Shad slime and guts in those cuts keeps my hands sore all week.

I also work outside with my hands so I usually show up to the lake with a few scrapes ready to be infected as soon as I get bait. The nitrile gloves protected those old cuts and nothing got infected. My hands are almost completely healed for the first time in a long time.

I realize that constant banged up and infected hands probably isn’t an issue for a lot of you guys but for those of y’all like me who fish every week and are constantly dealing with this issue, get you some 8-9 mil nitrile gloves and your hands will thank you for it!

Them blues 'ill getcha...

Gato,

where did you end up getting the gloves from? online, or actual store?

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10-4. thanks for speedy response.

I started wearing fishing gloves several years ago. The Glacier gloves are great but don’t last long. Academy stores sells an off brand that has thin leather sewn in to the high wear spots that work pretty good. Bass and crappie fishing I wear them 100% of the time. As stated above the slime on blues stick to the gloves and it’s a mess. I usually start with them on and end the day with them laying in the bottom of the boat. Lol I keep a home made flipper wire I use to take the fish off the hook that helps but I still end up slimy before long.
I’ll keep watching this post for good ideas.

Flex Seal has a lot of good options these days. Just dip your hands in this each morning and you should be good to go. It also comes in black and gray depending on which color belt you wear that day.