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Fishing in Alaska in July: How bad will the mosquitoes be?
Posted on 6/8/22 at 9:56 am
Posted on 6/8/22 at 9:56 am
First trip to AK. Spending a week on Kodiak Island river fishing, camping out, and off shore fishing. Are biting insects on Kodiak as bad as other parts of Alaska?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:18 am to weagle99
Good question. I would like to know as well. We are doing a cruise that ends in Seward and then staying at Kenai for 4 days to fish. I think we leave some time toward the end of July.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:22 am to weagle99
They will be bad. I was in Seward last weekend and it wasn’t too bad though. Depends largely on where you are fishing. If you are in swampy areas you will get lit up, if you are fishing halibut or rock fish you won’t have it bad at all.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 10:53 am to weagle99
They got skeeters up there so big that have to get on their knees just to frick a turkey.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:02 am to weagle99
IF where your fishing is near bog, melting permafrost, "marsh to us" and heavy wooded damp....you're gonna get lit up!!! At times they are as bad as Louisiana Marsh in August after a shower in the evening.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:31 am to weagle99
I was in King Salmon two weekends ago and they were already getting bad. Just get a bug net/suit and go enjoy the day. I expect Kodiak Island is very similar to where I am. They are always bad by July. We have had a really dry year so my guess is that will make them even worse around wet areas (fishing areas).
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:32 am to weagle99
Take an IV bag.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:43 am to Flats
I do use Bens 100 on cap, sleeves, ankles. The white sox/black flies really bother me more than the mosquitos most of the time. We are outdoors all the time and just through on a bug suit and don't worry about them. Make sure you bring a good camera though.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 12:43 pm to TimeOutdoors
swampy/boggy areas around rivers/streams will give you stories to tell your grand kids about the numbers of mosquitoes. I drove 4 wheel for an hour on logging company road to a beautiful spot except for the clouds of bugs that prevented breathing.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 12:54 pm to weagle99
Shouldn't be. Mosquitoes are much worse in the interior than along the coast. Just avoid standing water areas, Kodiak is pretty mountainous so its not that much of a concern. You could get some after a dry spell, but not the biblical plagues like the interior gets.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 1:49 pm to weagle99
It’s been close to three decades since my Kodiak trip over the 4th of July, doing pretty much what you have planned, and Deep Woods Off was more than sufficient. Nothing close to as bad as a windless day in the Leeville marsh.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 2:06 pm to weagle99
quote:Id be more worried about those big arse Kodiak Brown Bear people eaters.
Spending a week on Kodiak Island river fishing, camping out, and off shore fishing
Posted on 6/8/22 at 3:19 pm to weagle99
I can only tell you from the 70s, and were about 5x as bad as being in the middle of a swamp at dusk with no wind. I remember going outside my house in Fairbanks and killing over 100 with a flyswatter on the exterior wall that we’re waiting on me to walk outside in about 5 minutes. it was cold enough they were sluggish.
The Alaskan Summer is short and intense so are the bugs, they travel in damn swams like buffalo gnats and are unbelievably egressive. bring head nets, tons of spray, thermocells etc.
The Alaskan Summer is short and intense so are the bugs, they travel in damn swams like buffalo gnats and are unbelievably egressive. bring head nets, tons of spray, thermocells etc.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 5:25 pm to TutHillTiger
Thank you everyone
Posted on 6/8/22 at 5:45 pm to weagle99
they can stand flat footed and copulate with a chicken
Posted on 6/8/22 at 5:48 pm to weagle99
Just got back from Kodiak a couple weeks ago. They weren't bad yet. I wasn't fishing...it was a business trip. Lots of grizzlies already on the move with cubs though. There was always a good breeze down around Fossil Beach and that area...so we didn't have to worry about insects much.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 7:22 pm to NASA_ISS_Tiger
Thanks. What were your impressions of the island?
Posted on 6/8/22 at 7:37 pm to weagle99
Alaskan guy told me the only thing that works is taking 2000 mg of vitamin c then repeating every hour.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 7:48 pm to TimeOutdoors
quote:
The white sox/black flies really bother me more than the mosquitos most of the time
Same here. There's a couple of trails in valleys that are mosquito infested after spring melt, but overall the white sox, no see ums are far worse.
Posted on 6/8/22 at 11:25 pm to weagle99
Roads suck HORRIBLY.
Rental car companies are non existent except Avis and Do North
Airport is tiny. But they get 737s in.
Alaskan State Troopers are pretty friendly
Deer are stupid there too.
Loose stock is legal so don’t hit a cow
Lots of houses look like Sanford and Sons sets.
Hotels don’t have AC
Henry’s seafood downtown is okay
Prices for groceries are high, but I expected it.
Scenery is AWESOME
LOTS OF DUCKS, SWANS and GEESE.
Some whales are visible from the beach
Lots of bald eagles
Pretty spruce trees
Wish I had time to fish…everyone was packing fish boxes going back to
Anchorage.
Big Ray’s is a pretty cool outdoor store…prices are high, but they probably got something if you forgot something.
Rental car companies are non existent except Avis and Do North
Airport is tiny. But they get 737s in.
Alaskan State Troopers are pretty friendly
Deer are stupid there too.
Loose stock is legal so don’t hit a cow
Lots of houses look like Sanford and Sons sets.
Hotels don’t have AC
Henry’s seafood downtown is okay
Prices for groceries are high, but I expected it.
Scenery is AWESOME
LOTS OF DUCKS, SWANS and GEESE.
Some whales are visible from the beach
Lots of bald eagles
Pretty spruce trees
Wish I had time to fish…everyone was packing fish boxes going back to
Anchorage.
Big Ray’s is a pretty cool outdoor store…prices are high, but they probably got something if you forgot something.
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