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Post by osprey on Aug 13, 2014 15:45:18 GMT -5
Well, it's been a nice summer with hardly any bugs so far. I was actually wondering if there had been a mosquito apocalypse and they forgot to tell us, but things started changing today. Had 'em 65 a minute near the Bestpitch ramp this morning!!! Still coming off the marshes and moving around, but with a hatch, and flood tides the last three cycles, we've probably got skeeters from now until frost. So much for a nice early bow season in the sika marsh.  |
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Post by BIG FOX on Aug 20, 2014 7:36:49 GMT -5
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW i hate them.. Thank sweet baby Jesus for thermacell
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Post by osprey on Aug 20, 2014 10:41:32 GMT -5
I don't think many have made it up to your place Fox, only bad right now in the far southern marshes for the moment.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Aug 20, 2014 12:13:50 GMT -5
65 a minute.......WOW!
Not sure how you do that - I HATE MOSQUITOS!
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Post by osprey on Aug 20, 2014 16:04:26 GMT -5
Heck Frank, that's nothing. Had 'em 150 a minute at Shorters Wharf in past years. Anything over 5/min is more than most people want to deal with, at 10/min they start being pretty miserable.  I have one concrete rule while sika hunting - if I pull into a parking spot and the hood changes color from all the skeeters landing on it before I can get out, I bag it and head on home until another day. |
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Aug 21, 2014 9:50:32 GMT -5
Not a chance that I could stand there and let 150 mosquitos land on me while I counted them. You can keep that!
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Post by BIG FOX on Aug 25, 2014 13:17:50 GMT -5
Only seen them that bad a couple times.. Once on my lease was it so bad, thankfully I was only throwing a bag of corn in the feeder and not hunting. Truck hood turned black and was moving when I stopped. It was sickening... Could not get out of there quick enough and felt light headed from blood loss... Sp far so good this year, but heading over for a final check of the property before the opener.. I am going to check it out and fill the feeder one more time tomorrow. Hope the bugs are not too bad...
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Post by osprey on Aug 28, 2014 10:32:03 GMT -5
You're still golden on the bugs, they didn't spread out too far and no more big hatches yet. Unless we get a huge rain event, major tides or a tropical storm it should be a pleasant fall. |
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