Do use bed chairs

angler_jack · Aug 9, 2013

Seeing as my longer sessions are only ever 48 hr, I never use a bed chair just get in my sleeping bag and I take a pillow and one I'm set. See many advantages to this on save on lugging it around. Just wondering of anyone doesn't use bed chairs?

sam vimes · Aug 9, 2013

I've been known to forgo a bedchair at times. I'll even forgo any type of shelter once in a blue moon. The chances of either happening get less as time goes on. I'm just finishing a course of anti-biotics after a recent session I did under a brolly. I got bitten to death, so it's either full bivvy or a mozzy front for the brolly from now on.

john step · Aug 9, 2013

Re mozzies Sam Vines. I hate them too after some serious bites. I managed to buy a full head cover net thing from an adventure/outdoor company before they went bust. I put it on at night when your cant see the little darlings creeping up on you. You can still see through it well enough. Also long sleeve T shirts. Trousers tucked into long socks protect my ankles. I swear by Boots sun cream, the sort with insect repellent, never having been bitten with it on!

sam vimes · Aug 9, 2013

John,
I've never had an issue when actually fishing or otherwise active. Only when the eyelids shut and I'm not fully enclosed in a tent or bivvy do I get bitten. Last time it was mainly hands and face which, with it being a very warm night, were exposed. The big red blisters on my left hand were a sight to behold.

terry m · Aug 10, 2013

Whilst I am happy to forgo the shelter/bivvy during hot dry spells, I cannot leave the bedchair behind. I would be stiff as a board by morning.

As for mozzies, when I was younger and I smoked (stupid I know), I never seemed to suffer, but these days they are a real nuisance. I keep meaning to get some of the Avon Skin so Soft stuff that everybody waxes lyrical about!

Ray Roberts · Aug 10, 2013

terry m said:
Whilst I am happy to forgo the shelter/bivvy during hot dry spells, I cannot leave the bedchair behind. I would be stiff as a board by morning.

As for mozzies, when I was younger and I smoked (stupid I know), I never seemed to suffer, but these days they are a real nuisance. I keep meaning to get some of the Avon Skin so Soft stuff that everybody waxes lyrical about!

I bought some Skin so Soft last year and not a bite since. I usually night fish in the open on a chair and though I have a bedchair I very rarely use it.

eel611 · Aug 25, 2013

Avon stuff doesn't work for me, good old Mijex all day long.

nicepix · Aug 25, 2013

We've used Avon Skin So Soft for many years and never been bitten. Until last summer when it was totally ineffective.

Maybe a bad bottle but I managed to get some new improved Avon sun screen / repellant from the States last year. So far I have never needed to use it until Friday evening while fishing a new swim I was bitten all over. Guess where the repellent was? Yep. At home.

derbyco1 · Aug 25, 2013

I've been using Boots Soltan Suncare lotion with insect repellent, its also water resistant.

Not been bit once and only costs around £5.

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