Ticks are really bad this year!

[Ultralight]

Hi all, I just wanted to do a little public service announcement.

The ticks are out in full-force and they are really, really bad this year.

My canoe brushed up against some shrub on the bank a couple weeks ago and a tick rubbed off on it. Then this past weekend I was reeling in a massive channel catfish. It tugged my canoe into a marshy area with some partially submerged trees. I brushed up against the tree just for a second and a tick got on my arm! And I use permethrin spray all over all my clothes!

Be careful out there if you are hiking, mountain biking, fishing, hunting, or whatever. I'd even be careful gardening or doing yard work.

Something I do now is put duct take around the top rim of my boots. But the duct tape is folded over longways. This makes ticks stick to the tape.

Be safe this summer!

[Alan]

Years and years ago, before UA was born, there was a particularly bad tick season in Texas where I was going through a 6 week Air Base Ground Defense course. The course consisted of hiking into hostile territory, creating a serviceable landing strip and then securing the area from local aggressors while being attacked at odd hours and subjected to loudspeakers all night, every night, by English speakers with Vietnamese accents advising us what they were going to do with us once we fell asleep. We found the trick to avoiding fleas was to purchase Hart's Flea and Tick collars and placing them around your ankles and wrists. They did a pretty good job although at that time your basic fatigue pants had buttons at the fly rather than a zipper. That's where the little bastards got in!

[iris lilies]

Bring back DDT.

[Ultralight]

The people who don't use any kind of repellent just get tons of ticks on them. I have witnessed and had them lament to me about it so many times this year already.

[Ultralight]

Years and years ago, before UA was born, there was a particularly bad tick season in Texas where I was going through a 6 week Air Base Ground Defense course. The course consisted of hiking into hostile territory, creating a serviceable landing strip and then securing the area from local aggressors while being attacked at odd hours and subjected to loudspeakers all night, every night, by English speakers with Vietnamese accents advising us what they were going to do with us once we fell asleep. We found the trick to avoiding fleas was to purchase Hart's Flea and Tick collars and placing them around your ankles and wrists. They did a pretty good job although at that time your basic fatigue pants had buttons at the fly rather than a zipper. That's where the little bastards got in!


YIKES!