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Title: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: jdb on August 01, 2018, 11:40:54 AM: I heard a rumor there are droves of biting flies at the potholes this year, any truth to this?
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: rasbo on August 01, 2018, 11:47:21 AM: Quote from: jdb on August 01, 2018, 11:40:54 AM
I heard a rumor there are droves of biting flies at the potholes this year, any truth to this?
droves of everything that bites here in wilbur this year,probably the same there
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 11:52:13 AM: Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks. What keeps the biting flies away?
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: rasbo on August 01, 2018, 11:54:09 AM: Quote from: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 11:52:13 AM
Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks. What keeps the biting flies away?
100 percent deet
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 11:57:16 AM: Quote from: rasbo on August 01, 2018, 11:54:09 AM
Quote from: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 11:52:13 AM
Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks. What keeps the biting flies away?
100 percent deet
:chuckle: Won't that also give me cancer in 14 minutes?
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: Timberstalker on August 01, 2018, 11:57:38 AM: Busch Lite.
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Post by: zagsfan1 on August 01, 2018, 12:08:43 PM: Was there all last week. Camped at State Park, and spent our days on a sand dune. Wife actually commented they were better this year than years past. Few mosquitoes, and always a good amount of gnats.
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Post by: tlbradford on August 01, 2018, 12:09:33 PM: Thermacell if it isn't too windy, keeps everything at bay.
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: Angry Perch on August 01, 2018, 12:14:39 PM: Quote from: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 11:52:13 AM
Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks. What keeps the biting flies away?

Sitting in the bar at MarDon.
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 12:17:35 PM: We camp out on the islands, the drinks are way better there than at Mardon. :brew: We do take our therma cells and have therma cell laterns as well to try to keep the bugs at bay.
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: rasbo on August 01, 2018, 12:26:42 PM: Quote from: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 11:57:16 AM
Quote from: rasbo on August 01, 2018, 11:54:09 AM
Quote from: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 11:52:13 AM
Oh boy, heading there in a couple of weeks. What keeps the biting flies away?
100 percent deet
:chuckle: Won't that also give me cancer in 14 minutes?
not sure used it for yrs,
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: banishd on August 01, 2018, 01:00:43 PM: I picked up sawyer picaridin lotion on amazon. Doesnt have the smell like deet and works well. Sometimes i do both if bugs are real bad.
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: gallion_t on August 01, 2018, 01:20:12 PM: I was there last weekend and didnt notice too many bugs. Worst place was at the campground by the golf course. Out on the water and at the houses at Mardon's i didnt notice a lot of bugs.
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Post by: eastsidemallard74 on August 01, 2018, 01:22:12 PM: Deer flies? They are common in the summer, and yes they bite.
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Post by: BigGoonTuna on August 01, 2018, 03:13:43 PM: Quote from: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 12:17:35 PM
We camp out on the islands, the drinks are way better there than at Mardon. :brew: We do take our therma cells and have therma cell laterns as well to try to keep the bugs at bay.
the big islands in the lake or the dunes? I remember loving to play around on goose island as a kid, the last time i was there it had been turned into some kind of sanctuary for terns and cormorants, and it stunk to high heaven.

If horse flies bother you, stay out of the willow :chuckle: i hate those horrid things.
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 03:30:21 PM: Quote from: BigGoonTuna on August 01, 2018, 03:13:43 PM
Quote from: Rainier10 on August 01, 2018, 12:17:35 PM
We camp out on the islands, the drinks are way better there than at Mardon. :brew: We do take our therma cells and have therma cell laterns as well to try to keep the bugs at bay.
the big islands in the lake or the dunes? I remember loving to play around on goose island as a kid, the last time i was there it had been turned into some kind of sanctuary for terns and cormorants, and it stunk to high heaven.

If horse flies bother you, stay out of the willow :chuckle: i hate those horrid things.
Dunes, water is low enough to expose them but high enough they turn into islands.
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: gaddy on August 01, 2018, 04:09:49 PM: Used to boat camp on the dunes a lot. Find an island without a bunch of brush or shallow marshy stuff around. The brush isn't so bad, but you hang out any where near a marshy spot, you are into bugs. Look at the brush areas next to the bank, As the water drops foliage collects around the root system and creates a mushey area as it rots, a breeding spot for any thing that bite's. Those Horseflies are terrible if in the wrong area. A couple of dunes over and it might not be bad at all.
Goose island is another story. Spent my 20th b-day there with a keg of beer buried in the sand and some friends. I hate to see what it has turned into.
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: gaddy on August 01, 2018, 04:30:08 PM: Back to the fishing part--Some of the best fishing Iv'e had up there has been in the bug infested areas. Don't know if it's my jerking of the bait due to the biting bugs, or if that's where the fish want to be.
Title: Re: Biting flies at potholes?
Post by: AL WORRELLS KID on August 08, 2018, 10:08:51 PM: Been There Done That! :chuckle:
Doug