Ok so I went fishing yesterday. It was a little on the cold side. Nice because nobody was wading the Skok except me. Bad because I have whimpy fingers that freeze up faster then Dubya's brain.

Ok, so this is nothing new. My fingers have been freezing up ever since taking up steelhead fishing. So one fine blistery morning in the Sawtooth Mountains I get an idea...why not put a couple of AA batteries in the rod handle of my baitcaster, then hook up the leads so they contact the reel feet and warm up the reel. I realize the rod would need to be rebalanced, but would something like this be possible? I could handle a couple extra ounces of weight if it meant I could feel the rod, instead of gripping it with dead cold stumps I call hands.

I even thought about a small 'docking' station that would heat up a baitcaster while it wasn't in use. Like a small heated reel cover attached to an energy source.

Any ideas? I am the only one here who has trouble with the metal on the round baitcaster sucking the freakin heat right out of my fingers?
Am I really a sissy?