I did a search for deet and could not find any negative effects about fishing those beautiful bamboo rods and the use of fly repellent that has deet, will deet
cause the wrap finish to become soft/ tacky. I have used it often and have had plastics soften when it comes in contact with deet. Some people will not use
it because of health concerns and with West Nile a real concern in Canada now, for me, deet is the ultimate deterrent to mosquitoes, though if it eats the boo
rod finish then Skin-So-Soft (SSS) will be my choice. What has your experience with deet taught you to not do?
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Posts: 301 05/11/2009 15:59 |
In my experience, deet will soften most anything. Deet will eat into the rod varnish and will also remove the finish on flylines. Use deet but wash your hands
well with soap and water!
Regards and WDE!! Bob L. " If you want to get to the top, prepare to kiss a lot of the bottom." --Robert Earl James |
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Posts: 203 05/11/2009 16:29 |
The trick with DEET is to apply it to the back of your hands and use the back of your hands to wipe it on wherever you need it. That way it doesn't get on
varnish, on flies or in your eyes (all bad medicine).
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Posts: 174 05/11/2009 17:44 |
ask your liver what it thinks about deet...
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Posts: 157 05/11/2009 17:49 |
I bring packets of "wet ones" (they come in foil packets and can be stored in your vest) to clean my hands after applying repellent.
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Posts: 158 05/11/2009 17:52 |
Deet is highly effective and West Nile or Lyme Disease is no walk in the park either.
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Posts: 2662 05/11/2009 18:05 |
j2t wrote: I asked and my liver responded it didn't have the time to speak to me about deet. It was thoroughly involved in a discussion my with liquids from Scotland. bobbyg 
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Posts: 364 05/11/2009 19:11 |
I used 100% DEET products on military duty in many parts of the world for over two decades. Even from the early days, we didn't apply it directly to our
skin. We sprayed it on socks, cuffs, collars, hats, and bandannas, let it dry, then put on the clothing. My liver and I are still working fine, the critters
were kept at bay, and I never ruined any plastic gear.
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Posts: 420 05/11/2009 19:13 |
steeldog94 wrote: Yes, if anyone goes outside you can encounter either. I happen to walk into some bush that was loaded with the tics that carry the Lyme Disease. I suspect there was hundreds on my hand, the only way I felt them was they moved as a mass to attach to my body and they tried to move up my arm and quickly attach. I brushed them all off but was looking for a while to make sure I removed them all.
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j2t wrote:I had Lyme disease once--I'll take my chances with the deet. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/LYME/Prevention/ld_Prevention_Avoid.htm
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Posts: 250 05/11/2009 19:51 |
Just my experience . . . DEET will take the paint off your car. It will soften varnish and ultimately eat right through it. It will eat the finish off a fly
line. It is undeniably effective in keeping bugs away, but its effectiveness is not IMO worth risking the damage it'll do to some valuable gear.
Personally, I find skin so soft or its "OFF" equivalent effective enough. YMMV, but if the bugs are that
bad, I'll wait.
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Posts: 187 05/11/2009 20:34 |
My experience with deet products is that they can and will wreck finishes and plastics. I can't say whether that's because of the active ingredient
or the carrier/inactive ingredient.
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Posts: 421 05/11/2009 22:09 |
Thank you for the relevant feedback, I like the idea of applying a deet product to clothing and/or going with OFF.
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Posts: 499 05/11/2009 22:29 |
You'd better read the ingredients on the OFF can....DEET is the primary active ingredient in OFF insect repellent.
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Posts: 752 05/11/2009 22:52 |
I'll use Off or something like that if I just absolutely can't resist a day on the San Juan in the summer, but mostly I go up to the mountains,
they're much cooler in the summer time and I hardly ever see a mosquito up there. The best bug repellent is to go where the bugs aren't.
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Posts: 687 05/12/2009 02:43 |
Sawyer's Repellant for Clothing, available at REI, is a repellant and insecticide. It's the same stuff used on Bug Off or Buzz Off shirts and works
great for mosquitoes, ticks, sandflies and other bugs. Sprayed on pants and shirts and allowed to dry, it lasts for six weeks and six washings. It contains
plant-based permethrin, which has no apparent side effects when used as directed. You still need something else for exposed skin (face & hands), but
I've used it for thick and nasty, persistent mosquitoes with no bites. Great stuff.
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Posts: 424 05/12/2009 08:45 |
wb4tjh wrote:I will use a repellent that has no deet for exposed skin, I don't spray myself with repellent and then read the label. Oh wait now, you are speaking about yourself, I guess I do things differently than you.
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Posts: 501 05/12/2009 10:10 |
There's another repellent ingredient called picaridin or also known as icaridin, which is being touted as an effective alternative to deet. It's said
it will not dissolve plastics or mar finishes. Cutter's Insect Repellent uses it. But some sources I have read say it's not nearly as effective as
deet. I guess whatever you use, it has to be some pretty bad stuff to repel blood suckers.
Bill Anderson, Sarsota, Fl. "Bamboo is the Benchmark in flyrods". |
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Posts: 185 05/12/2009 11:13 |
DEET's the most effective stuff made, IMO. I have one bottle of the 100% stuff left and use it on hats and clothing only. I tried a citrus-based product
called Natrapel last year on exposed skin, harmless to lines and rods and it worked OK but had to be reapplied every hour of so.
A good headnet is a lifesaver when the bugs get really bad. On a Quebec salmon trip at the height of black-fly season we would have been driven off the river without our Bugshirts. |
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Posts: 2856 05/12/2009 11:34 Moderator |
There's always Parodi
cigars.
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Posts: 189 05/12/2009 12:18 |
I was just going to say that. Nothing beats a good cigar.
My dad used to always pour about a cup of Clorox in with his bath water in the summer. He said that it kept the ticks and flies and mosquito's away. He did it for years and if it did not work, he would have stopped doing it years ago. Aaron |
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