True about the cigarette idea, that pisses them off and they are as likely to borrow deeper as they are to back out. acetone will do the same. However, in 60 years of my own (started fishing when I was 6) my pop's 88 years before he went to the trout stream in the sky where the deer are all stupid and stand still, and 10,000 years of my People living in tick country and using lard,--buffalo fat melted down-- I would contest any medical journal that says it doesn't work. I have never had one stay in. They back out completely and are just brushed away with a tissue, a small stick, whatever is handy except the fingers. Don't know why we were always cautioned to never touch one, but folklore holds and I won't touch one.
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