caorach
Well-Known Member
I know it is sort of the wrong time of the year for this but, in my defence, the midges were out in the Hebrides yesterday.
After reading some comments here about "Smidge" I thought to give it a try and picked some up in Inverness at the start of September. The first day I headed out fishing in the Hebrides saw it flat calm and so I thought it was a good chance to test the Smidge. I slapped it on. It smells nice and doesn't appear to have disolved my fly line or rod varnish. Also that I can see my skin has had no bad reaction to it, something I'm prone to.
In terms of repelling midges the performance was mixed. Some people are mostly annoyed by the midges landing on them and crawling about etc. and it certainly didn't seem to prevent this. Nor did it prevent me getting eyes, nose and ears full of them. However, despite them crawling all over me there is no question that Smidge stopped them biting me and I don't think I had a single bite for the day.
So, specially if having midges crawl all over you annoys you a lot, it is no replacement for a head net however my experience is that it works quite well in stopping them biting and it seems to be relatively mild on plastic and skin.
After reading some comments here about "Smidge" I thought to give it a try and picked some up in Inverness at the start of September. The first day I headed out fishing in the Hebrides saw it flat calm and so I thought it was a good chance to test the Smidge. I slapped it on. It smells nice and doesn't appear to have disolved my fly line or rod varnish. Also that I can see my skin has had no bad reaction to it, something I'm prone to.
In terms of repelling midges the performance was mixed. Some people are mostly annoyed by the midges landing on them and crawling about etc. and it certainly didn't seem to prevent this. Nor did it prevent me getting eyes, nose and ears full of them. However, despite them crawling all over me there is no question that Smidge stopped them biting me and I don't think I had a single bite for the day.
So, specially if having midges crawl all over you annoys you a lot, it is no replacement for a head net however my experience is that it works quite well in stopping them biting and it seems to be relatively mild on plastic and skin.