Lincoln, NE...

[frozenchief]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

Heat and humidity = flies.

You've been in mountain country far to long. Us low landers deal with flies. Ozarks is bad this time a year to

Have a mosquito story from 3 years ago.

Went out to a new reservoir I'd never fished.
Showed up, just before sun up.
Got out of the car to get shit ready and could hear this hi pitch humming, coming from all diffrent directions.
Once it was light enough to see. It was clouds of mosquitos,the size of semi trailers. Out in the cornfields, hovering a few feet above the corn. Never seen or heard anything around here like that before.

When I lived in rural (bush) Alaska, we lived where Lake Aleknagik met the Wood river. That particular point of land is called 'Mosquito Point'. It got its name for a reason.

First time I went hunting, I went up river with a buddy. We got a caribou and it was back in a slough off the main channel of the river. Really slow moving water. Bugs were bad as we approached the downed caribou. I was with a co-worker who had lived out there for years. He volunteered to cut up the caribou because he could do it quickly. And he did. Took him about 15 minutes to have it quartered out.

He was going to cut it open to remove the guts and I was going to hold the sides open to give him better access. Before he did, he told me to put on my mosquito netting hat. I thought, "There are a lot of mosquitos but they aren't bad. But I"ll do what he says." So, I put on the mosquito net hat. He sliced open that caribou and I had never before seen such a horde of flies, mosquitos, and white socks (a type of biting fly that are a pain in the ass).

I did not know to bring gloves. And holding the caribou open, my hands got bloody. I looked at my hands at one point and they were just black there were so many bugs on them. They itched for days from mosquito bites and fly bites. But I had caribou for the winter. And every time I went hunting afterward, I took some gloves.