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micmac
Member
Post Number: 78
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 9:26 am: | 
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Just wondering if anyone can update me on the blackfly situation in Temagami.
I've got two trips in Temagami starting this weekend - one 3 day and one five day - back to back.
Just wondering if I should bring along the bug tent, or is the situation manageable?
Thanks
Mike |
kim
Member
Post Number: 232
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 10:30 am: |
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Micmac
Take the bug tent,head net and gloves!
Tape up your sleeves and pantlegs.
They were sure buzzing me last weekend.I am still scratching bites.
I have never seen them that bad.
DEET did not work at all. |
canoedog
Member
Post Number: 17
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 11:08 am: |
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Hey Mike, did a 5 day trip last Wednesday to Sunday - Adelaide out through Parsons to the Sturgeon and back through the Rawson cutoff to Laura Ck and Matagamasi - take the bug tent. I'm glad I had my small set up along with my head net. My experience was similar to Kim's! |
simonb
Member
Post Number: 14
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 12:49 pm: |
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We spent six days travelling through the Muskego, finishing May 21, and we didn't see any bugs the entire trip! It was wonderful!
It seems that anytime after the 23rd they start to get bad.
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ed
Moderator
Post Number: 631
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 5:10 pm: |
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May 23rd is when they come out in Temagami. Enjoy the bush from ice out until about May 22 then get out of it until early July ... in the Temagami area.
This year I left a bit earlier than usual on May 19th and there were only a few bugs about. Not enough to bug you 
If you go further north say up near the Albany River at about 51 degrees N they religiously arrive between July 12th to 15th with a vengeance and hang around for about 2 weeks.The only saving grace is that the blackflies will disappear if you have a fire..... but not the mozzies.
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camper2009
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Post Number: 1
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 9:09 pm: |
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Hi all!
How are the blackflied late June?
Will they still be around??
Thanks!
Paul |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1068
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 9:19 pm: |
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Given the steady amount and spread of rain this spring and the below normal temperatures, I see no reason they will not be around for the rest of the month. Unless they get hit by the riparian flu. |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 3
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 9:23 pm: |
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Thanks Brian!
Thats bad news!! haha, im heading to lake temagami June 25 - 5th
GGRRrrrrrrrRrRrrrr |
brian
Moderator
Post Number: 1071
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 - 12:37 pm: |
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Depends on where you are going. I know islands on Lake Temagami that are on big-water sections not near any creeks that rarely see blackflies. Now the backcountry, that's another nightmare. |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 4
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 - 12:59 pm: |
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ohhhhh awesome,,
thats good news then!
Soooo if they are bad, we could just stay on Lake Temagami?
Thanks Brian!  |
micmac
Member
Post Number: 79
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 10:13 am: |
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I'm just back from another 5 day trip in Temagami.
I had an Outdoor Ed trip out last week; blackflies were bad, but manageable. Then I went out for another 5 days this week, and the blackflies stayed the same, but the mosquitos were relentless... almost too much to handle at times.
What a difference a week can make. |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 7
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 2:43 pm: |
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ohh yea, what area in Temagami?
Where would you suggest we go next week? June25 |
alscool
Moderator
Post Number: 184
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 3:49 pm: |
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There will be no difference, in a super saturated solution of breathable air and black flies, Daltons Law of gases can be applied. That is there there will be equal amounts of Black flies throughout the Temagami District. Oh sure, you may see that there are masses over your head but be aware that they are straining to congregate near you and once you go away (screaming to your tent) they will drift back into this equal state of occupancy. |
micmac
Member
Post Number: 80
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 4:12 pm: |
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My advice for a bug-free location in the Temagami backcountry in June:
... inside your bug tent ...
(Message edited by micmac on June 16, 2009) |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 9
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 8:33 pm: |
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haha, hmmmmmmmm
hopefully it slows down over the next few weeks! :P
Thanks for the info!
Paul |
sundown
Member
Post Number: 426
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 11:42 pm: |
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Life's Like That... Then Ya Die...
Food Fer...
Sundown
(Thenk About It... Bugs Are Bugs... Bone-Eaters Are Bone-Eaters... Live Ferever... Or, Die Tryin'... Reckon??? ) |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 14
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 8:09 am: |
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lol, nice sundown |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 15
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 8:10 am: |
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i heard in another forum that Parry Sound area the black flies are almost done.... not many left...
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preacher
Member
Post Number: 44
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 - 12:06 pm: |
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There will be no difference, in a super saturated solution of breathable air and black flies, Daltons Law of gases can be applied. That is there there will be equal amounts of Black flies throughout the Temagami District. Oh sure, you may see that there are masses over your head but be aware that they are straining to congregate near you and once you go away (screaming to your tent) they will drift back into this equal state of occupancy.
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There's gotta be something you can do to precipate them out of saturation! |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 19
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, June 20, 2009 - 8:58 am: |
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lol, their really isnt!
We got nailed last year in tobermory... oh mannnnn did we ever get eatin... We coulfnt even stay near our site until sundown... UNREAL!
by day 1.5 we literally had whelts head to toe! |
sundown
Member
Post Number: 428
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 20, 2009 - 8:48 pm: |
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Sundown... Mester Fixx-It... Evree Time...
Its parrfull hard ta be a Magi... But... Shore Beats Second Place...
Reckon
Sundown
(Message edited by sundown on June 20, 2009) |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 20
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009 - 9:49 pm: |
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Anyone have a report on blackflies?
Thanks!
Camper |
hillbilly
Member
Post Number: 381
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 12:30 am: |
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Bad right know. Should be less in a week or so.
Bill |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 25
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 9:49 pm: |
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ahhhhh bad news!
i hope they let up...... will be arriving Thurs afternoon |
hillbilly
Member
Post Number: 383
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 4:42 am: |
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I will be up on Saturday.
Bill |
camper2009
Member
Post Number: 27
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Monday, July 6, 2009 - 11:30 am: |
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wooooo no blackflies on my trip! But the mosquiotos were a killer!
We couldnt have fires at night it was so bad!
Other than that, the trip was a blast
camper |
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