munkyfunk 12:50 Mon Jul 13
Mosquitoes arghhhh...
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Has anyone got a remedy, fishing at moment
And getting.eaten alive, zipped on mesh on front of bivvy and twatted the Fuckers. Inner bivvy resembles a csi murder scene with half my claret smeared on bivvy from.squashed mozzies.
Anyways tried deet stuff, citronella,mozcoils, etc.
Won't try knob wiping as I fear this maybe what's attracting them..
Anyone????
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Eerie Descent
12:21 Tue Jul 14
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They can smell it.
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Eggbert Nobacon
11:49 Tue Jul 14
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Eerie Descent 12:09 Tue Jul 14
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Fucking hell, Stuart Downing has got more bollocks than some of you lot.
I rarely get bitten, someone once said that they don't like the taste of Marmite in the blood, and I eat it by jar load.
How do they know you have marmite in your blood before they bite you?
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Ridikzappa
11:41 Tue Jul 14
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I would agree with the suggestion of Avon's Skin So Soft
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munkyfunk
5:38 Tue Jul 14
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Dursley not tried the knob wipe trick yet.
Will try some of your.suggestions.
Also skin so soft blue.
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SDKFZ 222
2:09 Tue Jul 14
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Vitamin B tablets from Holland and Holland help immensely, plus I always use 'Jungle Spray.' It can be quite greasy and it's also expensive, but I spent a fortnight in Tigaki, Kos, recently, right next to the salt lake where thousands of them live, and I wasn't bitten once when wearing it (I got three bites at breakfast one morning, however, when I wasn't protected, little buggers!)
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Me_And_My_Monkey
12:20 Tue Jul 14
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Veet.
Cover yourself top to toe.
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mike hunt
12:13 Tue Jul 14
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the marmite thing is because of vitamin b apparently
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Eerie Descent
12:09 Tue Jul 14
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Fucking hell, Stuart Downing has got more bollocks than some of you lot.
I rarely get bitten, someone once said that they don't like the taste of Marmite in the blood, and I eat it by jar load.
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The Dursley Massive
12:01 Tue Jul 14
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Have you tried rubbing your knob on them?
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Nurse Ratched
11:51 Mon Jul 13
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I've had 'Mosquito Song' by Seun Kuti in my head all evening because of this thread.
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bruuuno
11:47 Mon Jul 13
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Worst I've know was fishing the st Lawrence a few years back in the US. Muggins volunteered to bait up the far bank before we went home each evening. I had to put my good tight over my face, tuck everything in wtf and make a fucking mad dash with a 25l bucket of groats through this forest to get to out spot. It only took 30 seconds or so to run the gauntlet but I got absolutely mullered every time, it was like a feeding frenzy.
It was Impossible to night fish due to the mozzies, this was a different level to anything in Europe - if we left packing up til sundown we used to end up legging it to the car dropping out gear everywhere in attempt to get away
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chink
11:20 Mon Jul 13
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It's the blue bottle version of Avon Skin So Soft that works (as used by Royal Marines in Scotland against the midges, in Afghanistan against the mozzies and by my daughter working in Corfu against the mozzies).
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sanfrancis-co-uk
10:46 Mon Jul 13
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As an ex trawler fisherman I have to agree with the OP.
Monk~koknee 9:10 Mon Jul 13
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The greatest mosquito fighting device in the world is the tennis racquet shaped battery powered zappers. Never has such joy been enjoyed in the pursuit of killing an unsuspecting insect*.
Love those things!
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Hammer and Pickle
10:33 Mon Jul 13
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Big butch Catalan builders swear by almond oil moisturiser for the mozzies.
I find this a bit odd myself.
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Nurse Ratched
10:13 Mon Jul 13
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Blimey. Mosquito Milk farmers must have phenomenal patience.
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Nurse Ratched
10:13 Mon Jul 13
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Blimey. Mosquito Milk farmers must have phenomenal patience.
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WorldCupWilly
10:09 Mon Jul 13
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Out in Spain at the moment and we're trying everything. They have these things shaped like a catherine wheel that smolder and they seem to work. Bought a Citronella candle an hour ago and got that going now. So far so good but me and one of my daughter's are covered in bites, whereas the missus and other daughter don't get bitten at all.
Only consolation is that the beer's cold and there's a fridge on the patio that's full!
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mike hunt
9:55 Mon Jul 13
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that skin so soft is fucking lethal shit i took it to spain last year, and had a massive reaction to it fucking arms covered in a rash that turned scabby, took months to clear up, check the negative reviews on amazon
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TC
5:51 Mon Jul 13
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Mosquito Milk - Only thing I've found that works
http://www.chemistdirect.co.uk/mosquito-milk/prd-hi5
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munkyfunk
4:32 Mon Jul 13
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Tried the skin so soft route, I had the green bottle.
Caught fuckall, wrapped up in rain then fish started lumping out over my baited area.
Typical.
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3:45 Mon Jul 13
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Trawlermen never complain about mozzies. So try that sort of fishing instead.
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