Ticks!!!!!!

[FishermanTim]

Whenever I venture into an area that I'm not sure about (typically when fishing) I perform a routine I call the "tick flick".
I hav gotten adept at spotting the little peckers, and will check my clothing and "flick" them off. I may even resort to a controlled (although it looks rather frantic) flailing and slapping to add further security that none are hitching a ride.
I haven't been bitten yet, and God willing, I'll catch them in time to prevent it in the future.
Although I don't know first hand about Lyme's disease, I did have an episode with a large horsefly that gave me ringworm. The bitemark also developed the "bullseye" rash, and my doctor prescribed the antibiotics for Lyme's just to be safe.
I hope every outdoors man and woman will take the necessary precautions ove the year.

[Raven]

pennyroyal oil or 100% deet helps deter them ....

just don't get deet on your hands or plugs.

[Rockfish9]

Hate 'em... back when I used to trap, I dusted my clothes with flea and tick powder and wore a bandana around my neck soaked in Bens with %100 DEET soaked my hat in it too...

Last fall I shot a buck that dropped tickes for three days.... I was almost too disgusted to eat it... almost.

[Raven]

how many ticks do ya think dropped off of that buck...?

25?, 50?, 100?

i'll never forget the day my wife and i decided to take a stroll across a grass field next to the charles river....a place we never hiked to before.... midway thru the field i decided to do a tick check on our pantlegs to see how many we picked up thus far if any...and we were covered with them - 20 easy per leg.... luckilly we had the foresight to pull our socks up over our pantlegs. we dusted off ....turned around and headed back to car and dusted them off again.

you'd have to wear smooth waders to cross that damn field...

[Rockfish9]

Originally Posted by Raven

how many ticks do ya think dropped off of that buck...?

25?, 50?, 100?

i'll never forget the day my wife and i decided to take a stroll across a grass field next to the charles river....a place we never hiked to before.... midway thru the field i decided to do a tick check on our pantlegs to see how many we picked up thus far if any...and we were covered with them - 20 easy per leg.... luckilly we had the foresight to pull our socks up over our pantlegs. we dusted off ....turned around and headed back to car and dusted them off again.

you'd have to wear smooth waders to cross that damn field...

enough for me to put a fish box dusted with tick powder under it and I still swept someoff the floor of the garage... hundreds...plural!

[Raven]

imagine that... they're always saying that: that many ticks would kill a dog taking all the hemoglobin from its blood....so how does a buck live with that size a population i wonder. vegetarianism ??

i can see why you were hesitant to eat the venison...
even if only for awhile....

[Rockfish9]

yea, hard to figure, I've skun fishers that had as many as a dozen on them....must be why I preferd water trapping.