How big do Flies get in your area?

[Darth-Baiter]

Spooling a reel w Braid and I inadvertently let in a giant fly.  It was the size of a dime!  When it buzzed my head I could almost feel the breeze from its wings. 
 

damp shop towel swinging around.  I got the sucker. I think they are getting bigger here. 

[gim]

4 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

I inadvertently let in a giant fly.  It was the size of a dime!  When it buzzed my head I could almost feel the breeze from its wings. 

 

 

[12poundbass]

I’ve seen some horse flies around here with Uber signs on their backs! 

[flyfisher]

Just get one of these and you will be fine.   

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GFFXTLT?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_K3A47RK56C8YVEK6M14Z

 

 

[A-Jay]

Some years the Horse Flies (or Deer Flies) are wicked bad.

This years hasn't been too bad.

Either way these things get pretty big compared to a common house fly.

And the 'bite' is no joke.

Seems they rip a chunk of skin right off the bone.

Apparently feeding on the blood. 

My dogs & I are not fans.

A-Jay

 

[Jigfishn10]

@A-Jay

Did you just give us a "wicked bad"?

[A-Jay]

10 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

@A-Jay

Did you just give us a "wicked bad"?

I sure did.

And how about those "Greenheads" up that way ?

Those are some sneaky mothers.

Buzz around your ankles at the beach,

then while you're looking down . . . 

BAM ~ Right in the back of the the neck.

I've been run right off the Merrimac River while stripah fishing more than once.

A-Jay

[Jigfishn10]

Just now, A-Jay said:

I sure did.

And how about those "Greenheads" up that way ?

Those are some sneaky mothers.

Buzz around your ankles at the beach,

then while you're looking down . . . 

BAM ~ Right in the back of the the neck.

I've been run right of the Merrimac River while stripah fishing more than once.

A-Jay

Not as bad here in MA, but ME is "wicked bad"!

 

You can be just casually riding in the boat or relaxing on the beach and next thing you know it "BANG"! you look down and have blood all over your boat. 

[gim]

Deer Flies are intolerable too.  They will land right on your face and take a bite out of you.  I run into them when I fish smaller rivers.  I have not found anything that repels them either.  I've literally had to stop fishing at times because they were so bad, and that was even when we were slaying river bass too.

[Skunkmaster-k]

This topic makes me itch. 

[Darth-Baiter]

^^^ that looks like mean fly!!  I'm gonna need a bigger dish towel!!!

[12poundbass]

7 hours ago, A-Jay said:

stripah fishing

A cousin of the striper? ?

For everyone having fly issues, get this. You can thank me later. Great fun!

 

https://www.amazon.com/BUG-A-SALT-3-0-Yellow/dp/B089CDCCR1

[Jar11591]

The horse flies love to bite me and get in my face while I’m fishing. And it seems once they get a taste, there isn’t a force on earth can make them leave you alone unless you kill them.

 

Then there are black flies. They get very bad for 2 weeks or so around mid June up here. Those things will eat you alive without you having any idea they’re even there until you get home as one big itch. If you’re out fishing during black fly season up here, you better pray for a breeze. 

[schplurg]

I wanna know what those tiny looking flies are here. The ones that hover around or above you in a group and follow you along the bank or road you're walking on. Like gnats but bigger. Like flies but smaller.

 

Little scoundrels don't bite, they rarely even land, they just get in your face and tick you off.

 

That's what makes me the most agro sometimes. "You worthless craps don't even BITE you just fly in my face, what good are you!!!!!!!"

[TnRiver46]

16 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

The horse flies love to bite me and get in my face while I’m fishing. And it seems once they get a taste, there isn’t a force on earth can make them leave you alone unless you kill them.

 

Then there are black flies. They get very bad for 2 weeks or so around mid June up here. Those things will eat you alive without you having any idea they’re even there until you get home as one big itch. If you’re out fishing during black fly season up here, you better pray for a breeze. 

We do a two day camp float on the big south fork of the Cumberland often. They circle the canoe as soon as you start and never leave you alone until the trip is over. We give extra food rations to anyone that kills a horsefly haha 

[Jar11591]

25 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

We do a two day camp float on the big south fork of the Cumberland often. They circle the canoe as soon as you start and never leave you alone until the trip is over. We give extra food rations to anyone that kills a horsefly haha 

The only way I can ever kill them is by waving my hat in circles over my head until I swat it and stun it, but then I have to find where it lands and squish it before it comes to lol so if you’re ever fishing in upstate NY and you see some lunatic on a boat waving his hat in circles around his head and swearing, it’s just me. 

[Bass Junke]

On 8/19/2022 at 8:50 AM, gimruis said:

Deer Flies are intolerable too.  They will land right on your face and take a bite out of you.  I run into them when I fish smaller rivers.  I have not found anything that repels them either.  I've literally had to stop fishing at times because they were so bad, and that was even when we were slaying river bass too.

The deer flies were vicious here in Mass in some places. I stopped hiking this one trail this year because my dog and I were chased out of the woods by them. I think Otis (my younger dog) ate one during the hike and the deer fly bit him in his mouth. His face swelled up and we ended up at Tufts. 

 

On 8/20/2022 at 10:19 AM, Jar11591 said:

The only way I can ever kill them is by waving my hat in circles over my head until I swat it and stun it, but then I have to find where it lands and squish it before it comes to lol so if you’re ever fishing in upstate NY and you see some lunatic on a boat waving his hat in circles around his head and swearing, it’s just me. 

The best way I have found to kill flies is with an elastic band. Sorry this will not work on your boat unless you are a really good shot, tough to shoot them out of the sky. When they land however, fair game. I'm pretty deadly within 5'. Check your attack angle because the elastic will make a mess of the fly. I don't like flies, but shooting them is fun and you get to work on your aim. 

[gim]

2 minutes ago, Bass Junke said:

His face swelled up and we ended up at Tufts. 

My Father has been bit by one near his lips and that swelled up too.  It looked like someone punched him in the mouth for a while.  They are ruthless insects.

[Darth-Baiter]

i'll shutup now.  my flies dont bite.  huge but harmless for the most part.

 

wow.  big AND bites!  yeowza

[Captain Phil]

Florida is infamous for our bugs.  I've seen roaches three inches long.  Aside from mosquitoes and sand flies, they are mostly just a nuisance.  We have a small white fly that can cover a wall so thick you use a broom to pick them up by the bucketful.  We call them "blind mosquitoes" because they don't bite.  The worst are Hydrilla gnats.  You run into them in the summer when flipping hydrilla mats. They are tiny little devils that get inside your glasses and on your face.  I hate them.  They are nothing compared to the dear flies they have in Canada.  Those things are nasty. 

[Bass Junke]

2 hours ago, gimruis said:

My Father has been bit by one near his lips and that swelled up too.  It looked like someone punched him in the mouth for a while.  They are ruthless insects.

I have not seen them this bad is about 10 years. Last experience I had at a state forest, they actually had a sign out in front of the entrance that read something like " Warning deer flies". They weren't kidding. We were swarmed. We basically ran from shot to shot because there were so many swarming our heads. Definitely the most miserable disc golf game in memory.