Ticked off

DrDan · Administrator

Ticked off

lightfoot · Senior Member

If you want to see something interesting try "tick flagging". Put a white piece of cloth on a stick and swing it back and forth in the weeds as you walk. Use white so it's easier to spot the ticks

rgloft · Senior Member

Lyme disease ? Do we have that around here ????

Xnjb707X · Senior Member

Pulled most of them off!? Geez man how many did you have on you? I've fished Putah for 17 years and have never got a tick to attach. I've had one every once and again crawling on my boot or my hoodie. What were you doing out there? Rolling around in the grass or what? biggrin

- Nic

Cole Davis · Senior Member

Certain people are prone to the little vampires. They like some blood more than others... seriously. My buddy used to get them all the time mountain biking? Most of the time we're moving pretty fast. Still haven't seen a rattler out there at the creek. Just poison oak and fatties biggrin

DrDan · Administrator

Xnjb707X wrote:
Pulled most of them off!? Geez man how many did you have on you? I've fished Putah for 17 years and have never got a tick to attach. I've had one every once and again crawling on my boot or my hoodie. What were you doing out there? Rolling around in the grass or what?

- Nic

One tick. Not all of it was removed. My doctor wasn't able to get all of it out either. Sucks. It will likely get inflamed and hopefully pus it out.

yukon mike · Senior Member

Regarding Lyme Disease, the type of tick that I read was the most feared was the Deer Tick, not found on deer by the way. They are much tinier than the ticks found at Putah. If you fish the American River canyons aka the gold rush areas, coat yourself heavily with industrial DEET and pack something serious that you know you can handle well. But beware, the ticks at Putah will attack in vast squadrons and suck you dry. biggrin

rgloft · Senior Member

Thats Very true We had My dog Rusty with us one time < One minute he was just fine , Then I hear my wife Sarah screaming Richard Richard I run over to where she and my dog are and my dog is covered with ticks . I think they find a spot to lay there eggs , and those tick babys hatch and wait till someone or something passes by , Look at there leggs not really good for covering a lot terrain

hawkeye · Member

Oddly enough, you have all those fence lizards scrambling about the Creek to thank for both the high tick count and the very low likelihood of Lyme disease. They are a primary host for the tick, but also have a protein in their blood that kills the Lyme disease bacteria. Ecosystems are funny things. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/21/BABR1HNDG6.DTL

wormfree · Veteran Member

Even if a tick with lyme disease attaches to you, it will take roughly 48 hours for the bacteria to be transmitted. You have some time to spare. Don't freak out. The nation wide maps showing the high, moderate and low risk areas show the Putah area as low risk. In fact there are only a few moderate risk areas in the far northern part of Ca. around the Fort Brag area. The rest of the state is low risk. Most of the high risk areas are back East. However, I dont care if it has lyme disease or not I don't want even one of those creapy little bastards crawling on me.

If your interested go to www.oes.org/html/how_2_identify_different_ticks.html

I guarantee you'll be surprised how small a dear tick really is. The lone star is also a carrier of the bacteria.

wf

-- Edited by wormfree on Friday 6th of April 2012 12:36:42 AM

kbarn · Veteran Member

The amount of ticks at PT is insane. It's gotten to the point where I don't think I'll bring my dog. He ends up covered with them. They are one creature that I wish went extinct.

Xnjb707X · Senior Member

March - May are the worst months for ticks. I try not to bring my dog to the creek until these months are over but sometimes I just can't help it. I use advantix which works really good to keep the ticks off. I also bring a long haired brush and give him a good brushing when we are done fishing and it pulls the ticks out with ease. They can't attach into his skin as quickly due to his long coat. So that helps me a lot. I think short haired dogs get it the worst.

- Nic

bono · Master Fly Fishing Guide

Went turkey hunting with one of my boys last Sunday and as we were having dinner afterward at the Buckhorn restaurant I found 5 of those nasty little b------s crawling on me. I just feel sorry for the next person who sat in the same booth we were in!! This seems to be a bad year.

kbarn · Veteran Member

The only tick to worry about is the on you can't see! (deer ticks). Although those bigger ticks are gross and irritating.

paul · Veteran Member

The sports store at the nut tree center in Vacaville sells a lemon and eucalyptus oil mix repellant that has worked very well for me. I forgot the name but it's in the camping section. Works for mosquitos too