ORIGINAL: phil_pick

Hey guys, I was out at one of my spots setting up a blind last weekend and the mosquitoes were horrendous. I had never used a Thermacell before but everyone here seems to love them so I went out and picked one up. I went back to the same spot on Sunday to hunt and fired up the thermacell but the skeeters didn't seem to mind it at all. I sat out there for as long as I could but they just kept on landing on me and buzzing all around me. There wasn't much wind and and I was on the ground in an open blind.
I am wondering how long it takes to start repelling the mosquitoes and if there are any tricks to making it work more effectively. And before you ask, I did check to see if it was working and the coil was red and there was a faint smoke coming from the blue pad. It just didn't seem to repel them at all.