Fly Bags

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

I'm sure you all know about those fly bags that you just add water to and pop the top and in a couple days you'll have 40,000 flies in there.
They work really well.... maybe a little bit too well. The problem is what do you do with those fly bags once they get full of 40,000 flies because they stink to high heaven.
I can't put them in with my normal garbage because the Bears will smell it, about the only thing I have found is that I collect them all at once put them inside of a couple other garbage bags and then take them straight to the dump.
My other issue is, are they attracting flies ??? LOL.. between five bags I bet I've collected a half a million already so I wonder if I'm actually even attracting more flies to our Ranch by using those bags.
What y'all think?

 

[Mrcopier]

I'm sure you all know about those fly bags that you just add water to and pop the top and in a couple days you'll have 40,000 flies in there.
They work really well.... maybe a little bit too well. The problem is what do you do with those fly bags once they get full of 40,000 flies because they stink to high heaven.
I can't put them in with my normal garbage because the Bears will smell it, about the only thing I have found is that I collect them all at once put them inside of a couple other garbage bags and then take them straight to the dump.
My other issue is, are they attracting flies ??? LOL.. between five bags I bet I've collected a half a million already so I wonder if I'm actually even attracting more flies to our Ranch by using those bags.
What y'all think?

Not aware of these bags. Any pics?

 

[SBMF 2015]

I'm sure you all know about those fly bags that you just add water to and pop the top and in a couple days you'll have 40,000 flies in there.
They work really well.... maybe a little bit too well. The problem is what do you do with those fly bags once they get full of 40,000 flies because they stink to high heaven.
I can't put them in with my normal garbage because the Bears will smell it, about the only thing I have found is that I collect them all at once put them inside of a couple other garbage bags and then take them straight to the dump.
My other issue is, are they attracting flies ??? LOL.. between five bags I bet I've collected a half a million already so I wonder if I'm actually even attracting more flies to our Ranch by using those bags.
What y'all think?

The bears like them? I guess they like the bait smell?
Get the reusable kind with a plastic jar instead of a bag. Then you can just dump it out and reuse.

 

[sstterry]

Burn them.

 

[Dave]

The wife was bugging me about how much a dead cow stunk. The dead cow was half a mile up the hill and I had drove right by it with the quad. Barely smelled when that close. Then she realized she had one of those fly trap in the back yard. That was the smelly issue. I think she dumped the contents in the river.

 

[M.Magis]

Burn them.

This was my first thought as well

 

[Ouachita]

Burn them.

My wife uses the fly bags in advance of any visitors. We have a burn barrel with a screen to lay on top. Get the fire going, pitch the fly bags in, screen on top. Watch the bag melt open and the flies try to get out. Listen to the sizzle. Put on your best evil laugh/grin. Hold your nose. Slam a cold one.

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

The bears like them? I guess they like the bait smell?
Get the reusable kind with a plastic jar instead of a bag. Then you can just dump it out and reuse.

Yes that's what we just started to do.

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

Not aware of these bags. Any pics?

 

[sstterry]

This thread reminds me of an uncle who had a whole chicken he forgot in his truck in the middle of summer. As one would expect, it eventually started to smell. My uncle, being ever resourceful, decided to take it to the landfill. He drove to two separate ones, but it was Sunday and they were closed. As he drove through town, others began to smell the rotting bird and stare at him. As the day dragged on, the smell got worse and worse.

Being frustrated that he could not dispose of the bird, he came home with the rotting carcass still in his truck, feeling defeated. About that time, his father pulled into the driveway. He began complaining to his dad that he just could not dispose of the bird, and the smell was awful and getting worse. He told his Dad that he just did not know what else to do. His father simply asked, Do you have a shovel? His father took the shovel, dug a hole in the field, dropped in the bird and covered it up.

Sometimes the simplest solutions seem to escape even the best of us.