"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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Some folks I know just came back from the Porkies. The flies drove
them nuts too (not that I'm saying you're nuts or anything). Down here
in Merrill we do have deer flies and skeets but the black flies for
some reason don't seem to like it here.

Yeah, the deer flies seem to have a much wider and more even distribution.
I encounter them just about everywhere in da nort woods, though they are
certainly much more prevalent in some places than in others. One day, about
fifteen years ago, they drove me off Comet creek before I could wet a line.
In all the time I spent on the central streams I don't recall that I ever
saw anything more than an occasional lone black fly. Even in the U.P. there
are drainages in which I've never bumped into them. Others (the Little Carp
comes readily to mind) are so badly infested that I will no longer go there
in season.

Must be all the clean living here.

Could be......but that rather invites the question of why I would ever have
seen them anywhere.

By the way, Joel and I are coming up your way Friday evening. We'll be
fishing for smallmouth at the ultra-secret spot on Saturday. Hope you can
join us. I'll be posting a notice in a new thread shortly, in case anyone
else might want to come along.

Wolfgang