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Originally Posted by FishermanTim
Because you sweat more when it's humid (duh) and you body releases CO2 when you sweat as well as breathe, the mosquitos have a homing beacon right to where the food is.
If I am doing ANY night fishing, be it from shore or the yak, I wear long sleeves and PLENTY of bug spray. Any wind is going to disperse you CO2 trail, but given time, they WILL find you, not in sqaudrons of bombers, but kamakzis (singular attacks instead of groups).
Mosquitos will fly around you when you apply sufficient bugspray, and if you can subdue/control your breathing, they will have nothing to home in on. Once you breathe regularly they will start flying right in your face.
This is from my own personal experiences, and should be verified on your own to learn what can work for you.
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i used to experiment in the jacuzzi at night...
i could get in and not see a skeeter as long as i held
my breath.......soon as you exhaled you could see them
sense the co2... but ....also reverse direction to find the source.
so i took a 3 foot piece of 2" pvc and exhaled thru it over the railing
and watched them hone in away from me....
i take brewers yeast allot for health reasons but the vitamin b1
in it repels them.....they will barely land on me and then leave
doing stop and goes instead of landing... and that's without bug spray..
where as the person standing next to me is being eaten alive because
they don't eat brewers yeast
i put in my cats food and dogs food for the same reason to prevent heart worm,
ticks, fleas, and improve their skin condition also.
simply put................. bugs hate the taste of vitamin
B1
i once got this new pup ok ...my first dingo,
and it was riddled with fleas
so i took brewers yeast and another natural flee powder made from flowers
and dusted the dog...good...
a week goes by............
and the girl who sold it to me came by for a visit and was shocked looking at the dog
every so closely not finding a single flea and exclaimed..."what the hell did you do?
totally astonished
and i told her and I showed her....man, was she ever happy.