I found one thing out this morning; Off does not work for gnats.
We headed out to Songjeon lake very early this morning but this time, with our waders as we wanted to try an area we’ve seen while exploring, but had never fished before. This is the first time I’ve taken the waders out but I can tell you, it won’t be the last. I wasn’t stuck on the shore like before, rather, I was able to walk out into the shallows to get to places I couldn’t even cast to from shore before. I need to buy me some chest waders, as the ones I have are hip waders which still limit how far out I can go. One downside of waders is that you can only carry so much equipment out with you, and it’s a minor pain to take fish off the hook, especially when one swallows the hook all the way down.
I caught both of these bass back to back within 2 minutes of each other near a patch of weeds (on black 5″ Senkos, for those who’re wondering) and I might have caught more out of the same area but as soon as I caught the second one, some other fishermen who were out there came over to fish the same spot, which didn’t bother me so much. What ticked me off was that they were both talking up a storm and rather loudly at that. Guess what? The fish stopped biting.
That, plus the annoyance of the gnats getting in our faces, made up our minds to leave that spot and try another up the road. But when we go there, it was already packed with carp fishermen with their 20 rods each and there was no room to cast for bass. My friend wanted to try an irrigation channel out near Asan Bay so we drove out there only to find that the water was extremely muddy from the recent rains, and we didn’t get one single hit out there.
The gnats out at Songjeon were just terrible, and even though I had sprayed some Off on me to keep the mosquitoes away, I found out it does absolutely nothing for gnats. They were in our eyes, nose, and ears - they were so bad I was afraid to open my mouth to say anything. Anyone know of something that’ll keep the gnats away?
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