Is it just me, or are the mosquitos way worse this year? I'm assuming the wet May contributed to the swarms which made my fisherman's legs look like the legs leper!
I know Willard is always bad, but we shore fished it for catfish on Friday eve with 100% deet, a Thermacell, mosquito nets, and jeans. Still brought home 15-20 bites, and only one tasty 20" channel cat.
Anyway, just wondering if everyone else is being eaten alive more this year or is my blood just sweeter this time around?
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Mild winter and the wet spring have combined to give us more skeeters this year. Not cool with West Nile and other skeeter born stuff!! It sucks when the DEET doesn't keep them away !!
They are indeed worse this year. I got ravaged while playing golf last week - at midday. Unheard of for Moscow-Wheaties to be out at noon.
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We moved up here a couple years ago from San Diego. There were hardly any mosquitos there. I know there are multiple reasons why like here we have the Great Salt Lake marsh/wetlands and much more cattle and farm animals. But San Diego did do a much better job educating the public with commercials showing the importance of mosquito prevention by simple means such as emptying any standing water and distributing free mosquito eating fish. Most lakes and ponds I fished there had an abundance of these "mosquito fish", I wonder their affect on the ecosystem?
Anyway, just wish Utah did a little more to prevent these buggers, an outbreak of West Nile Virus would be horrible!
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[#0000FF]Utah does raise and distribute free mosquito fish (gambusia). And you can see them around the edges of some ponds. But small seasonal puddles and temporary ponds can put out a crop of skeeters before anybody takes notice...or bothers to call mosquito control folks. We supposedly live in a desert state and for the most part it is pretty dry. Our current soggy situation is unusual.
I lived in the San Diego area too...Mission Beach and Kearny Mesa. Miss the salt.
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[quote TubeDude][#0000ff]Utah does raise and distribute free mosquito fish (gambusia). [/#0000ff][/quote]
This is good news! Now I only wish Utah would hire a better PR person and get the word out! We need some public service announcements in TV and radio commercials... I'm guessing that we will have to wait for a West Nile scare before people will start taking these bugs seriously though.
On another note, yeah, we were in the Tierrasanta area just northeast of the stadium. I attached a couple pics of some of our most memorable San Diego inshore catches. Actually, my profile pic (avatar or whatever) is my son holding an Orange Mouth Corvina when he was barely 1...
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I live on the South shore of East Bay. Boy do I know mosquitoes. And yes they are out in force early this year. I have a pond on my property and Utah County does supply it with mosquito fish.
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I've been fishing WB quite a bit and haven't had much problem. Windy days help a lot.
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