Ticks in Eastern Wa

[Bwana Bob]

Ya Salish your so right about  the ticks at Beda lake, there outrageous there. Fished when Beda was good for big fish and big ticks. We carried our float tubes through the weeds and trees to get to our mid lake launch spot. Always had ticks on us. The seep lake are almost as bad.

[salish]

Bwana, those were good days at Beda. There were some huge triploids in there. I had heard that the WDFW area manager (can't recall his name now) went in while it was still iced up and broke a hole in the ice to stock the fish, just so he could get them in there and give them a chance to thrive before poachers went in. Probably should have created a "tick fly" for the trout.

[optic2]

For yourself, treat your clothes with permetherin.

[anthropisces]

I thought the ticks were troublesome out east but I never saw anything as heavy as I did near Umtanum several years ago. I'd planned to hike there but the ticks were so heavy that we cancelled the outing. Every hundred feet we checked ourselves and the dog (our mix) and there were always several ticks.

Right at that same time I was having deer come into my yard in Western WA (Skagit) and our mix dog got one on her, which promptly produced a bullseye rash. It was treated immediately but what a shocker. After that I built a deer fence and mowed a lawn instead of having a meadow.