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No fish porn just a reminder to all. Check yourself for ticks every day! I've been having my girl do a spot check when I get home after every fishing trip. She has been away for 3 days and boom, found one in my back this morning, not sure how long it was there but now I gotta get a lymes test, ugh. But I'm pretty anal about bug spray, keeping my dirty clothes outside and showering so I guess there's a first time for everything. So keep safe and tight lines!

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Hope you found it early enough dude. Keep an eye on the location where you found it in your back... Pray a bullseye doesn't appear.

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Good points. I can't believe I don't have Lyme Disease. I've been hiking, bushwhacking, frogging, fishing, camping my whole life

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I hope I did, I drove over to my moms house and she removed it, freaked out and dragged me to the doctor so I'm on antibiotics already lol

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It's a pretty reasonable thing to freak out about!

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Yea I was a little bugged out but nothing like my high strung Italian mother, my father thought there was a knife in my back the way she was screaming lol

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Lymes carrying ticks are rarer than most people think. Only a small percentage carry the disease so try not to get caught up in publicized paranoia. It definitely seems to becoming more prevalent though. I pull a few dozen ticks off me every year, from nymphs to bigger hard ticks.I haven't had Lymes in 3 years. Don't get too paranoid. I'm a 3X Lymes disease champion!!!

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So you had lyme before?

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fish from a boat you wont get ticks in the water!! be safe

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If you can see the tick, its most likely a wood tick and there is really nothing to worry about....Yeah you wanna remove it of course but no worries wit da lymes.... Deer ticks , which are more commonly the lymes carriers are dam near no see ums until they are full of blood....

I pull off a few wood ticks on a weekly basis..... seriously, nothin to worry bout