I fished iocal pond for couple of hours today Birm bite was good but the Gnats were horrible I had spray and face net when breeze died they did me in. I came home and mowed the grass.
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I fished iocal pond for couple of hours today Birm bite was good but the Gnats were horrible I had spray and face net when breeze died they did me in. I came home and mowed the grass.
you need to put vanilla extract on your face, neck, ears, etc. the buffalo gnats will leave you alone.
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Originally Posted by ibmack
Must be reapplied very often
The worst are those in and out gnats and the dreaded dog -pecker gnats.
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dog pecker gnats that is a new one to me.
"DPBs" dog pecker bugs
I had that problem today as well...but cigarette smoke kept them off of me lol so I smoke a lot of cigs
You must use imitation vanilla. If you use the real stuff they will eat you alive.
I'm going to Florida next week to fish the mangrove swamps. The sand fleas will eat you alive unless you use bug spray. Anything with about 30% DEET works great.
Don't even think about using a Thermocell. I think the buffalo gnats love that thing. Imitation vanilla works best for me with them. But deet will usually work too but it will melt plastic, even the cap that comes on the bottle, as well as damage other things, so I avoid using it.
they are both correct about using "imitation vanilla". My bad!
I try to avoid using bug spray . If it eats rod handles and plastics , just what does it do to you ? :yikesQuote:
Originally Posted by Mac Daddy
Listerene works good just have to reapply very often.
Black flies(buffalo gnats), mosquitoes, biting flies, all are very irritating while fishing or doing any outdoor activity. If you ever want a change of pace go to Lake Conway and bump the cypress tree limbs, the stump gnats as I call then will swarm you, you cant breath for the cloud of them. And if that aint bad enough most of those cypress trees also have a red wasp nest the size of a basketball hanging there on the limbs that is covered by massive numbers of wasp. Piss them off and a few gnats or mosquitoes don't seem so bad.
been known to see a big ole cottonmouth sunning on a cypress limb just waiting to fall next to you if you aren't paying attention and run under a tree limb while tying a new jig or just drifting in the wind. pay attention out there!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lkconwayguru
Bet those are male mosquitos on those cypress trees. Lots of them on old town,
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as LCG stated, they are gnats, not mosquitos. His term is "stump gnats", although others refer to them as "wood gnats". They do swarm you to death, but in fishing Conway since the 60's, I have never had one bite me.
Bet that is what I see at old town. Figured they were male skeeters since they don't bite and are bigger than typical gnats. Look like they have feathery antennae. They hatch out nightly at midway. I've seen their remains piled up 3 inches deep along the side of the boat where the wind had blown them. About 11 or so they turn in and the catfish do too.
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Worked in the Chemical business 40 years.Made mosquito repellent the best out their "our two cents"permethrin "Farmers co-op brand"Not walmart brand". Spray on clothes.put a little on your hands"does not take much"a little goes a long way and apply to arms and neck.We have two sizes of mosquito's and "DPN's on the black and white river's "one size goes through the window screen" The other size open's the door and walks in".Took a Floridian squirrel hunting!!Ask him if he needed" mosquito dope"he said no he was from Florida mosquito/DPN's did'nt bite Floridians.LOL walked in the woods forgot my compass!!A Must Have" keep from getting lost.Compass old school GPS to ya young folk's"The Floridian was in the truck.He said those devils are after me I am a Floridian !!! aint never seen anything like those "devils"I said they don't care were your from they want and going to get your blood!!LOL he the floridian never went again!! also sulfur tablets mixed in a glass of water"Glass" of water."Diesel fuel" will work also for a while. A dryer softer pad that goes in a clothes dryer in your shirt pocket will work for a while.LOL
When in the wood's,river's,lakes bug's,spider's,tick's,crocks, snakes,critter's,hot,cold is part of the out doors.The only way to completely get ride of them is not go,"Stay Home"!!not meant to offend anyone just the way it is!!
A guy at work says lavender works,but I've been using vanilla extract the last few nights works well, also Jack Daniels and Rocky Patel Edge cigars seems to help keep the gnats away from your face