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Do you hate deer flies as much as I do?

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Every year starting about the beginning of July and running through mid August the deer flies get impossible here. Just walking outside brings a group of the little offenders buzzing around my head, followed by those bloodthirsty bites. Going outside is just no fun at all.

Being a compulsive thinker, I strategized that if I combined flypaper and a hat, I could give them an opportunity to commit suicide just doing what they do. Here is the secret weapon, along with a week's worth of collection. I usually change the strip a couple of times a season, and it gets ALL of them before they get to biting me. Cobble your own version up and post a pic if you like. Mine looks pretty odd to the passerby, but it is always working when I'm out in the garden or mowing.

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They are ferocious right now. I drove into the woods to check food plots (in my pickup with windows closed) and I think there were about 50 per side following me around. I was in my garage last night after dark, and got nailed by one that had gotten trapped in my garage during the day....$%#%&*% things! Can't wait til August 15th or 20th!

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To all who dislike these things, figure out a way to get some flypaper onto your hat and the problem will be addressed. As I stated above, this concept gets almost all of them. I can walk into the woods and listen to the bzzzzt...zzt as they stick themselves one after another. They do not get away.

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My little deer fly story, which is relevant on a fishing HSOforum.

I was working on the trolling motor on the boat, wearing some shorts which were wore out in the crotch.

I'll just say that I didn't really need Viagra for a bit.

Talk about a bad place to itch.

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fly tape hat. what an idea for an info-mercial! wait if you buy today i will send you 2 for 19.99 just pay for shipping. it might look wierd but i just might do it in a boat. of course on land too. it looks like it works-done deal. good luck.

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My little deer fly story, which is relevant on a fishing HSOforum.

I was working on the trolling motor on the boat, wearing some shorts which were wore out in the crotch.

I'll just say that I didn't really need Viagra for a bit.

Talk about a bad place to itch.

Oof, those hurt bad enough when it's just on your neck!!!

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The sticky fly tape got me to thinking of another story.

One winter about 3 years ago, we had a very bad mouse problem in the house.

Finally, I got the bright idea that we would put sticky traps across the thresholds of all of the doors downstairs, to see which way the mice were travelling.

We were able to figure out which room they were coming in and out of, and slowly kept sliding the row of sticky traps across the room until we didn't catch any, but still caught them in the sticky trap by the door.

You'd wake up and there'd be 1-2, sometimes 3 mice stuck on the sticky traps, sometimes just a foot.

Anyways, for my then 5 year old's b-day, we decided we would get him a cat. His fish that he'd had since he was 2 died recently and we told him that when the fish dies, he could have a cat.

Anyways, we bring the cat home, and the next morning we hear very loud meowing. Come to find out, we'd forgot the sticky traps were still downstairs, the cat, upon investigating the new house, step on one, and since they were all locked in a row together, ended up basically rolling itself into a sticky trap blanket.

It wasn't too bad, we removed the traps fairly quickly, but for a moment, the cat looked a bit like the flies on the hat.

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Might just have to give it a try. My wife gets a lot of swelling if she gets bit 2 or more times in the same area. Might look funny, but then again we're not winning any beauty contests in the woods anyway.

While landing a northern last weekend, I saw one chewing on my wrist nfor 5-6 seconds. It just stopped itching yesterday. July with flies usually has me wishing for the mosquitos of May/June.

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My little deer fly story, which is relevant on a fishing HSOforum.

I was working on the trolling motor on the boat, wearing some shorts which were wore out in the crotch.

I'll just say that I didn't really need Viagra for a bit.

Talk about a bad place to itch.

Kind of a similar story... Pensacola Beach FL. 1974 Streak the beach one way and swim back the other. Meet jellyfish! Yowzers... Extreme discomfort, especially in the extra starch fatigues we wore at the time!

Take care and N Joy the Hunt././Jimbo

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Every year starting about the beginning of July and running through mid August the deer flies get impossible here. Just walking outside brings a group of the little offenders buzzing around my head, followed by those bloodthirsty bites. Going outside is just no fun at all.

Being a compulsive thinker, I strategized that if I combined flypaper and a hat, I could give them an opportunity to commit suicide just doing what they do. Here is the secret weapon, along with a week's worth of collection. I usually change the strip a couple of times a season, and it gets ALL of them before they get to biting me. Cobble your own version up and post a pic if you like. Mine looks pretty odd to the passerby, but it is always working when I'm out in the garden or mowing.

hatcombined1200.jpg

hydro that is classic!!! funny as hill but certainly innovative, maybe you could help BP figure out how to cap the well.

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