mosquito bites.

[Darth-Baiter]

I was chewed up!!  I keep covered up fishing.  but when I was switching to shorts at shore for the drive home, they found me.  it was a Darth-Baiter Mosquito buffet banquet.  mostly the back of the legs.  hahah..

 

I am fairly okay with them except when I absent-mindedly scratch one.  then GAME OVER.  it will itch incessantly.  

 

the single best thing I brought back from my travels to SE-Asia was some over the counter anti-itch cream.  they don't have the same rigorous FDA rules over there and I brought back an anti itch cream that is only prescription here in the states.  I got eating by sand fleas over there and the pharmacist took one look and handed me a tube.  relief was dang near instantaneous.  I went back and bought another tube.  

 

winter fishing does have it's charms.

[Choporoz]

Crazy the way we all react differently.   I barely itch from some mosquito bites, but many, especially from the really small skeeters, itch so bad I go temporarily insane.  But the saving grace is that no mosquito bite itches beyond about 45 minutes.   My wife gets bit by same type of mosquito and it still itches 3 days later....though rarely with the same intensity. 

[TOXIC]

I can ignore the itch from a mosquito bite but not those little biting gnats and/or blackflys.

[Southernbasser]

I’m like you Darth-Baiter. All I have to do is go outside, and I instantly become a mosquito buffet. Itching all the bites drives me nuts. 
I’ve almost ever mosquito repellent on the market and none work for more than 1-2 hours. Sawyers is supposed to work phenomenally, but I haven’t tried it. 

[gim]

Haven't had any mosquitoes here all season.  Its been too dry.  They hatch in standing pools of water and I haven't had a good rain since May.

 

North of here I have heard they are awful though.  Northern MN has been getting consistent rain, of course.

[TnRiver46]

My wife got eaten up by them while pressure washing yesterday. We live in a jungle. There are houses all around me but there are also several miles of mountain biking trails through thick woods very close by. It’s literally referred to as the urban wilderness 

[NavyToad]

Since I quit drinkin’ I’m no longer a mosquito magnet and I think B-complex helps.

When I do get bit, they itch like heck.

[throttleplate]

this year i started to wear a mosquito head net and it works great. I then put on a heavy jacket and wear thick pants which i have at the ready in the trunk.

The only part they can get at are my hands wearing very light gloves with the fingers cut off the skeeters will attack the tops of my hands.

[Hammer 4]

I hate skeeters, luckily we don't have them in big numbers. I make sure there is no standing water around the house. If go somewhere that has water, i.e. the lake of golf course, I cover up, and apply insect repellent. 

[Woody B]

I'm a skeeter magnet.  I've been using deep woods off, and it works good for them but at times flies still want to eat me up.   

[Captain Phil]

Mosquitoes are a significant health problem in many parts of the world.  My wife got malaria on a fishing trip to Australia and New Guinea back in the nineties.  Trust me, you don't want that to happen to you.  Thankfully we don't have malaria carrying mosquitoes in the US, at least so far.  Fishing the Everglades and South Florida most of my life, I have seen my share of mosquitoes.  Sand fleas are much worse.  Orange label Cutter insect spray was our go to mosquito dope. In the boy scouts we used 100% Deet.  It burned our skin, but it worked.  For night fishing in the Glades, we dressed in long sleeves and wore head nets. Nothing keeps them off forever, so we had to constantly re-douse.  We also used PIC coils in our boats.   If you haven't used them, check them out.

[roadwarrior]

This is great for your porch: 

 https://www.amazon.com/DynaTrap-DT1050-Half-Mosquito-Black/dp/B008JGMOGK

[DitchPanda]

Also living in drought land here so no mosquitos to speak of this year. Biting flies on the other hand are hellacious.

[Bird]

Get yourself a thermacell and say goodbye to skeeters, 100% effective.

[Catt]

Mosquito Bites

 

Very hard to feel even with the most sensitive rod...oh wait wrong thread!

 

@Captain Phil pretty much nailed it

[Darth-Baiter]

1 hour ago, Bird said:

Get yourself a thermacell and say goodbye to skeeters, 100% effective.

I have one.  the earliest model. very effective while sitting in a ground blind.  I find the slightest breeze pretty much renders it useless. 

[Captain Phil]

2 hours ago, Bird said:

Get yourself a thermacell and say goodbye to skeeters, 100% effective.

 

I would very much like to see how this device would work in the deep Everglades fishing on a hot summer night.  I suspect the mosquitoes would die laughing.  ?

[Will Ketchum]

The worse I ever had it with mosquitos was in Greenland when in the service. There aren't many warm blooded creatures up there so they were glad to see me.

[TnRiver46]

5 hours ago, Bird said:

Get yourself a thermacell and say goodbye to skeeters, 100% effective.

100% ???? Do you have some ocean front property you’d like to sell me in Arizona??

[Bird]

3 hours ago, Captain Phil said:

 

I would very much like to see how this device would work in the deep Everglades fishing on a hot summer night.  I suspect the mosquitoes would die laughing.  ?

My brother deer hunts in the swamps of eastern NC and claims the mosquitoes are so big they have tics.

He said the first few years were miserable do to the swarms.

Now he enjoys mosquitoe free hunts.

Give the thermocell a try, you won't be disappointed.

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

100% ???? Do you have some ocean front property you’d like to sell me in Arizona??

No but my thermocell goes with me to my tree stand in early October and never been bitten by a mosquito.

Try it , seriously.

[TnRiver46]

19 minutes ago, Bird said:

My brother deer hunts in the swamps of eastern NC and claims the mosquitoes are so big they have tics.

He said the first few years were miserable do to the swarms.

Now he enjoys mosquitoe free hunts.

Give the thermocell a try, you won't be disappointed.

No but my thermocell goes with me to my tree stand in early October and never been bitten by a mosquito.

Try it , seriously.

I’ve tried them ! They can be pretty good but 100% is not a number I can attach to anything mosquito repellent related. 

[padlin]

I tried 2 Thermocells when camping. We found the range they cover is very limited, hence the 2 units, and any breeze defeated them. I only tried them a few times then gave em away.

 

I do folks that swear by them do if you haven't,  give one a try.

 

[Bird]

The moral of the story is VA mosquitos are wimps and race to other states when the thermocell is active ?

[scaleface]

A mosquito bite only itches for and hour on me . Chiggers now ,they will make me itch for a week . Its maddening . I did not know there was an anti itch cream that works .

[flyfisher]

Yeah they pretty much suck.  I get chewed up going into my backyard and they go for the spots right about my socks all the time.  More of an annoyance.  My daughter is very allergic to them so we have to be careful and make sure she doesn't get any becuase when she does, they blister and almost look like a boil.  It isn't as bad as it was when she was younger and we got some prescription stuff from the doc that helps keep that at bay when we do see a bite.

 

as far as repellent goes,

https://www.rei.com/product/785883/sawyer-picaridin-insect-repellent-3-oz

 

I am not a fan of deet for a lot of reasons and this stuff works as well in all the stuations I have been in and had to use it.