This will take care of those pesky lil' skeeters...

How do you get bug spray all over your hands when OFF comes in a spray can?  If your that clumsy to get it all over hands then carry a bar of soap. Better yet, get your clumsy ars off my boat before you fall in.

Skin So Soft also works as well, if not better than OFF for repelling skeeters.  It will make you smell like a girl though.

We started using Skin So Soft at work YEARS ago when we had a mosquito scare down here in S.Florida.

Why Skin SO Soft?  We were issued OFF or Cutters (I think OFF) and after applying it and riding around all shift with your arm hanging out the window, guess what. The OFF ate through the paint on the patrol cars.

How do you get bug spray all over your hands when OFF comes in a spray can?

By touching your arms or legs.

This will take care of those pesky lil' skeeters...

that is what we use int he Marine Corps unless we have our uniforms treated. it will keep the bugs at 100 yards

Ok everyone, use sunscreen and insect repellent from now on  because they work better than megastrike.

Always put in dip before spraying

Eat a Key Lime everyday and in a month you wont have to use bug spray or you can buy concentrated juice online sounds crazy but it works, old indian trick

Does key lime pie count?  Dear god I love that stuff.  If I can have a real reason to eat it other than the taste I'll be having that stuff with every meal.

A platoon Sgt told me to take garlic supplements before going out to the field. Odorless but you sweat it out your skin. Stay away from cologne and use mild deodorants. I usually just get bit..

On ‎6‎/‎17‎/‎2009 at 10:24 PM, grimlin said:

I use bullfrog sun screen & insect repellent....hasn't effected my fishing.However I use the spray on stuff...so it doesn't get on my hands.

 

I use this sometimes as well.

 

It's great for a number of reasons. Its a 2 in 1 product so less stuff to carry. It works and when you are re-applying it for the sunscreen purposes the bug repellent is refreshed as well.

 

Most people forget to re-apply their insect repellent as it fades over time or gets sweated out.

 

Oh and don't get the Walmart brand of sunscreen/insect repellent. When I used it and drove to my fishing spot, I could not get the smell out of my car for days.

Suck it up! Those mosquitoes get eaten by fish!

Ive always used Repel 100, 98% DEET.  Stuff is bulletproof.  However, I found out the hard way the stuff melts plastic!!!!?????  I don't understand????  I still continue to use it because of its effectiveness but I worry about what is doing to my skin/body.  I also worry now about my waders etc.

 

Anyone have similar issues?

On 5/31/2017 at 8:57 AM, Pro Logcatcher said:

Suck it up! Those mosquitoes get eaten by fish!

I agree. I think area-wide mosquito control programs hurt fishing.  A healthy freshwater food chain depends to a considerable degree on mosquito larvae. I don't want to be at the bottom of that food chain, though, so I wear repellent.

I use sunscreen.  I don't know if it is the scent, or the mosquitoes don't like to taste it, but two years ago I noticed that where I had applied sunscreen I wasn't getting bitten. 

 

The sunscreen doesn't work for ticks too well.

Bug Soother.  It's made with natural ingredients, works well to repel gnats and mosquitoes and it's made in Iowa.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Bug-Soother-Repellent-Spray-Bottle/dp/B00E3C1QJ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496783081&sr=8-1&keywords=bug+soother

I hate the simple fact of spraying bug repellent and then sweating in the sun and having it run in my eyes or mouth.  What I did at a lake on the TX/LA border is get a small spray bottle and some lavendar oil.  Put a few drops of the oil in the bottle and fill with water.  Shake well and apply it to any exposed area.  One things that mosquitos do not like, is lavender.  

For those who don't like sprays just hang a vanilla scented car freshening around your neck or somewhere around you.  Bugs do not enjoy vanilla as well.

15 hours ago, L a r r y said:

I hate the simple fact of spraying bug repellent and then sweating in the sun and having it run in my eyes or mouth.  What I did at a lake on the TX/LA border is get a small spray bottle and some lavendar oil.  Put a few drops of the oil in the bottle and fill with water.  Shake well and apply it to any exposed area.  One things that mosquitos do not like, is lavender.  

Might have to try that. Pretty sure the fish wont care if I smell like a girl. LOL

4 hours ago, Hawkeye21 said:

For those who don't like sprays just hang a vanilla scented car freshening around your neck or somewhere around you.  Bugs do not enjoy vanilla as well.

 

4 hours ago, .ghoti. said:

Might have to try that. Pretty sure the fish wont care if I smell like a girl. LOL

For me the chemicals that is in all of the bug sprays are somewhat disconcerting, and it was starting to cause some skin irritation. So, I started to think of natural ways to repeal insects and saw that lavender is a natural mosquito repellent.  It does have a girly scent, but if that will stop me from trying to rub my hands/arms raw trying to get off the repellent, then I'll give it a shot and it has worked for me here in Texas.  And the mosquito's here are the size of pterodactyls lol

 

1 hour ago, L a r r y said:

 

For me the chemicals that is in all of the bug sprays are somewhat disconcerting, and it was starting to cause some skin irritation. So, I started to think of natural ways to repeal insects and saw that lavender is a natural mosquito repellent.  It does have a girly scent, but if that will stop me from trying to rub my hands/arms raw trying to get off the repellent, then I'll give it a shot and it has worked for me here in Texas.  And the mosquito's here are the size of pterodactyls lol

 

 

The spray I posted about earlier is safe.  Try Bug Soother, below are the ingredients.

 

Active Ingredients:

Lemongrass Oil 0.5%
 

Inert Ingredients:

Water, Vanilla, Castor Oil, Soya Lecithin, Lemon, Vitamin E 99.5%

I got some spray with DEET but that stuff made my skin burn like crazy.  Now I try to use buffs and arm sleeves to keep the bugs off, and, I recently got one of those mesh hooded bug jackets, though I haven't tried it out yet.

 

Next month Lois & I are heading to Manitoba, and the lodge owner told us that black flies

will not be a problem, but mosquitoes will. Actually, that's very good news,

because we'll take mosquitoes any day over black flies. As usual, I'll pack 100% DEET lotion,

which is as close to bulletproof as any insect repellent I've used. Rather than spray on repellent

and douse your clothing, just spray a little lotion in one hand and apply it where it's needed.

 

In the North Country, just as in the Deep South, we always take along "Head Nets",

a fail-safe backup plan. When your head is immersed in a dense cloud of mosquitoes, lovebugs,

gnats or blackflies, a Head Net can instantly turn hell into heaven, and it fits in your shirt pocket.

 

Roger

 

 

 

The best, longest acting, least smelly bug spay as tested by Consumer Reports are those based on picardin, and the best among those tested is Sawyer repellent with 20% picardin.  DEET works, sure, if you can stand the smell.  But picardin works much better and much longer.

So on an appointment yesterday, I picked a tick off of a customer's dog before picking another off of my pants.  So, immediately after I stopped in REI.  I picked up a tick key and some classic 98% DEET along with a bottle of Sawyer's spray on odorless permethrin that's supposed to treat clothes and last up to 6 washes.   Here's to not getting Lyme's Disease, fellas.

On 6/7/2017 at 3:05 PM, RoLo said:

 

Next month Lois & I are heading to Manitoba, and the lodge owner told us that black flies

will not be a problem, but mosquitoes will. Actually, that's very good news,

because we'll take mosquitoes any day over black flies. As usual, I'll pack 100% DEET lotion,

which is as close to bulletproof as any insect repellent I've used. Rather than spray on repellent

and douse your clothing, just spray a little lotion in one hand and apply it where it's needed.

 

In the North Country, just as in Florida, we always take along "Head Nets", a fail-safe backup plan.

When your head is immersed in a dense cloud of mosquitoes, lovebugs, gnats or blackflies,

a Head Net can instantly turn hell into heaven, and it fits in your shirt pocket.

 

Roger

 

 

 

I just wear jeans sleves and a head net for dawn and dusk fishing i never use any spray and u fish is Minnesota and Canada all the time. Black flies are the worst and the head net is a lifesaver.

On 6/9/2017 at 8:32 AM, sully420 said:

I just wear jeans sleves and a head net for dawn and dusk fishing i never use any spray and u fish is Minnesota and Canada all the time. Black flies are the worst and the head net is a lifesaver.

 

I grew up in Minnesota, but spent my first 17 summers at Balsam Lake, WI.  When we were kids, Mom always oiled us up with 6-12 repellent.  I don't know if it really repelled the skeeters, or if it just made our skin so slippery that they just slid right off.  

 

Back in the 70's and 80's for backpacking in the Rockies, I used REI Jungle Juice - 98% DEET.  Very effective, but it was also effective as a paint remover (as was mentioned above), so you had to use it wisely.  Anything with DEET is effective against mosquitoes.  Best thing about that stuff was that you didn't need to smear it all over every bit of exposed skin - just a few select spots seemed to work to keep the critters off.  I came to associate the smell of Jungle Juice with backpacking.

 

We just bought a bottle of Sawyers Permethrin at Walmart to try when we camp in the mountains this summer, but we will also have our Deep Woods Off for spot applications.  When it's hot, I can't stand wearing pants, and Sawyers is only for applying to clothing.

On 6/5/2017 at 5:45 AM, Bankbeater said:

I use sunscreen.  I don't know if it is the scent, or the mosquitoes don't like to taste it, but two years ago I noticed that where I had applied sunscreen I wasn't getting bitten. 

 

The sunscreen doesn't work for ticks too well.

 

Apply the sunscreen using latex gloves