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DanJohn

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Re: Skagit
« Reply #15 on: July 24, 2013, 03:56:43 PM »
Late season Skagit Skitters!

From last year

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Re: Skagit
« Reply #16 on: July 24, 2013, 06:52:53 PM »
Quote from: ByteMe on July 24, 2013, 07:32:13 AM
anyone try those electronic mosquito repellents that you clip on your belt?........Gimmick?

I used one this year up at Roche in May and didn't get bit all weekend, but then they were not very thick yet.
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Re: Skagit
« Reply #17 on: July 24, 2013, 07:53:21 PM »
What sorta flies should be used up on the skagit to get into the bulls?
..  Im planning on making my first trip there soon. Wouldn't mind having a little luck.
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Re: Skagit
« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2013, 08:44:34 AM »
Quote from: DanJohn on July 24, 2013, 03:56:43 PM
Late season Skagit Skitters!

From last year



Looks like the tip of your nose is about to "bite it"
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Re: Skagit
« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2013, 11:55:56 AM »
jeesh now they follow you onto the water too !!!

I liked the fact that once you were away from the bush they left you alone. guess that's not the case anymore  >:(




HOOK - packing his deet !!
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Re: Skagit
« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2013, 03:09:06 PM »
Quote from: hardlip on July 24, 2013, 07:53:21 PM
What sorta flies should be used up on the skagit to get into the bulls?
..  Im planning on making my first trip there soon. Wouldn't mind having a little luck.

Anything big and ugly looking. Big streamers or wooly buggers work great clousers and othe minnow imitations. Get it down deep and they should bite
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Re: Skagit
« Reply #21 on: July 25, 2013, 05:25:42 PM »
Quote from: HOOK on July 25, 2013, 11:55:56 AM
jeesh now they follow you onto the water too !!!

I liked the fact that once you were away from the bush they left you alone. guess that's not the case anymore  >:(
HOOK - packing his deet !!

Everyone tells me it's rare not to have a touch of breeze when you're standing in the river, but we had a day where there was no breeze.  So go take a leak and get followed by the minions back into the water.  Freaking sucked big time.  No pun intended.  I picked up one of those buzzers and will try it this year.  I also got a bug proof shell  from MEC.  Dude told me that he used it in Fernie on hikes and they didn't get through it.  We'll see... the skagit skeeters are relentless.
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Re: Skagit
« Reply #22 on: July 26, 2013, 05:32:02 AM »
Quote from: HOOK on July 25, 2013, 11:55:56 AM
jeesh now they follow you onto the water too !!!

I liked the fact that once you were away from the bush they left you alone. guess that's not the case anymore  >:(




HOOK - packing his deet !!


that's the idea yeah. but that trip, the Bush had lots, but at least I could get whacked by branches and they would get off. in the stream, I was eaten alive.
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Re: Skagit
« Reply #23 on: July 30, 2013, 12:42:03 AM »


Olive and white Zuddlers work really well for bulls since they imitate the sculpins the bulld are eating.
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