a friendly reminder

Thanks Pike, great reminder. Check yourself. I have already pulled 2 off the dog in the last 2 weeks. Looks like this is going to be a bad year in this area. The ADK's do however always seem to get fewer tick problems.

tuna, catskill isn't bad for ticks.. they are there but no where near as bad as the southern regions.

Anything w/ what is it 75% deet will work ? I got this Off "Active" last year - 15% deet- smelled good - didn't help to much with the bugs though !

I'm gonna sticky this for a month - Pike has brought to out attention I think a lot of us forgot about . Thank you sir !

I agree not on skin to skin - might end up w/ some funky cancer - but i tuck pants in boots - tuck shirt in and long sleeve -spray cloths and hat down ... I know several people that have lime disease and it's not fun ...  Ya can never go wrong with  SSS . Avon ROCKS !!! just might **** the wife off that your skin is softer then hers though .....

Just a word of caution on the Skin So Soft. Works great but watch out, the stuff makes your hands slick as heck. Lost a nice rod and reel onetime cause I was in a hurry and forgot to wipe my hands..

Again pike, thanks for the friendly reminder, here is something too worth sharing http://www.garlicvalleyfarms.com/

Just pulled a nasty bugger out that started burrowing in my daughters leg.
They are bad, bad ,bad this year. While I rarely do but always should, keep checking they are out there in force...
 
P.S.
A co-worker was having health issues last month. turns out he has lyme disease.  Got me thinking , I have been feeling pretty crapy with aches & pains. Figured I was out of shape but it is the first time I ever felt out of shape in my life. Maybe time to get a test, I had pulled a few buggers out last fall while deer hunting.

yeah....uuuuhhhhh....... keep an eye out for poison ivy/oak also......

well, if there's anything in the great outdoors that should be avoided..... i'll be the first to find it.
Just lucky i guess.
this is the first time i can remember ever having it and well.... it sucks.
I'll have to check that tecnu stuff out.
As for the catfishin', i've pretty much switched over to catchin carp. those things are sooooo strong and are a hell of a lot of fun to catch. my new species obsession for the time being. i'll post some pics if i get a chance.

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Most people see carp as "trash" fish and i'm fine with that. people give me funny looks sometimes when i tell them i'm fishing for carp, but aside for the month we have stripers here, where else are you going to catch a fish up to 30-40-50 lbs??
all last fall in my catfishin' spot (the one i told you about) me and my buddy kept seeing big carp jumping around, so i spent a lot of the winter watchin' european carp fishin' videos to figure out how to catch them.
as for bait, carp LOVE sweet stuff!! for bait i use "boilies" they are just little round balls with different flavors. i've been catching them on pineapple ice cream flavor and tutti fruitti flavors. and i attach them to a "hair rig", the bait is actually not attached to the hook. and i use a "method feeder" which is an in-line weight, you mix together some oatmeal and creamed corn and cake it all around the method feeder. the carp start feeding off the method feeder and work their way down to the boilie.
so far my biggest have been 26 lbs, a 24 lber and a bunch from 16-19 lbs, i'll post them up in a bit.
let me know if you want to give it a try sometime, i got all the stuff you need.

Pike:  Check out this website:  http://www.gettinghooked.net/Episodes.htm
and go to 2007, Episode 7 for some "how to" carp info.

Pike I would definitely give it a go... I know the spot you talked about. I'm not gonna diss any 25 lb fish, whatever it is. When the stripers go away, PM me when youre ready to go.  I work nights with sun/mon nights off.  Maybe we can get a couple of the boys to try their hand at carping too

the ingredient is pyrethrin, supposed to kill them too, if they stay on your clothes. don' spay it on your skin though.