Try Bugables citronella wristbands except wear them around your ankles NOT your wrists. We get ours on Amazon but also at Walmart. We still spray with 25% deet off or 40% repel but just lightly around lower legs , normal everywhere else, morning, evening like everybody else said. We change ours out every 4 days or so, wear them in the water no problem. We often go several trips with no bites at all or just a couple at most and they really use to bother us. Game changer.