Lower Salmon - Wasps?
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Topic: Lower Salmon - Wasps?
Posted By: NightbeastNW
Subject: Lower Salmon - Wasps?
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2013 at 2:18pm
Just got off the phone with the shuttle company, she informed me of the HUGE number of WASPS this year. I remember there being some last year but people are talking on Mountain Buzz of trapping these guys in the HUNDREDS.
Anyone just get off the lower? Anyone have any BETA?
Pretty sure i'm headed to the store to buy net shelters and hella wasps traps!
Also going to set up a 'decoy' table for those stupid f**king 6 legged flying devils! haha
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Posted By: Ellingferd
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2013 at 9:05pm
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Yes, they are really bad this year. Not sure why, some years are worse than others. They are also really bad in BC. Eating food becomes a pain in the ass....
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2013 at 11:18am
fu*kin White Anglo Saxon Protestants on our nation's rivers!
Always wanting you to fix them lunch...
Man, they really are a pain in the ass!
-oh-
You said six legged devils...
Haha- sorry to all of you protestants out there- just bein a joker, you know
I don't hate wasps of any kind. I just hate fixing lunch for people on river trips. What is this? Iron Chef?!
"jP-- Pack your knives and go"
"Well fu*k You, Mr. Wannabe Reality TV Show Producer--just try and get me off of this island, and good luck gettin this boat to the take out without a healthy heap of pain and suffering. Take that rolla table and shove it up..."
Haha- just kiddin again. Luckily reality tv has not imposed itself on our little chunk of paradise. The truth is that, while I am still pushing and occasionally grinding rubber from the dryden dam to cashmere on about 1000 very thinnly spread out cfs, I am not really getting stuck anywhere. Got the binocculors out in these static pools observing tons of birds and especially osprey... This is still a great trip.
Wasps on the Salmon,however, could certainly be a formidible foe. Those pests are attracted to just about anything edible. On a hot, dry summer like this one I'm not surprised they are so thick.
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Posted By: ENDO
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2013 at 2:54pm
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Yes, they are booming right now. Horseflies too. Avoid any bright/flowery prints. we had many people getting nailed on both our lower salmon trip and selway trip. Bring some stuff for stings. Once evening rolls around its not bad at all. As usual they congregated mostly around inflo streams and muddy patches. I have never seen this many. Early in the morning we would float through huge swarms as they fed off the morning hatches. It was a really weird experience.
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Posted By: jP
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2013 at 9:49am
Wow, Endo- sounds kinda gnarly, actually. Thanks for the Beta
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Posted By: justin
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2013 at 3:42pm
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Most likely, they are being driven down into the valleys by the forest fires. When I lived in Idaho there was a strong correlation to how many bees there were, to the number of forest fires.
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Posted By: NightbeastNW
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2013 at 11:55am
Just got off the Lower yesterday.... If anyone is putting on, bring a bunch of canned fruit cocktail, the yellow jackets LOVED that stuff. We setup a couple 'decoy' spots that helped when we ate but the little buggers were constantly around. Literally the most insects I have ever seen. It is so nice to be sitting at my desk in Seattle and not have any bees hanging out.....
The trip was still awesome minus the lack of enough alcohol for some people... Someone should have bought more ice as well... Warm beer sucks.
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