You knoq I am a Northerh boy so I know nothing about CRICKETS except I have been told the Southern boys used them for alarms. So when the MOOMSHINE COPS came around they stopped chirping. I also heard many a shinner got away using this system. But if you want to get rideof them I suggest you make a nice custom rod put finish on it and every creepy crawling flying thing well be attracted to your finish by day break. Then all you have to do is give it a second coatto encapsulate them and now you have a bugger of a rod :))
Good Wraps Bob

This is what I love about this forum. The crazy silliness that goes on. I sure needed this. Humor soothes the hurting soul!!!

Bill in WV

Hey we are the sane ones, the crazy ones don't build rods. By they way William. I am known as the best speller on thissite ::)). Just ask Tom or anyone that has been here for more than 2 years
Good Wraps Bob

I 'd start with Dan Craft's new 1-weight. Probly use REC single-foots, all cork reelseat with sliding rings. Long,long leader (at least 12'), tapered to 7x. No. 28 potatoe fly. Try for a drag-free drift,and bow to him if he jumps. Tight lines. Barry

Jesse -

Forms of PHYSICAL Warfare:
-- SQUASHING may still be too hazardous for your own balance.
-- TRAPPING is better, and works 24/7. Doesn't RAID still make those wonderful little "Roach Motels" - "Bugs check in, but they don't check out"? Once even a thumb size water-bug gets one foot stuck on that gluey floor, they are STUCK until they die of exhaustion. A fitting end to such a pest.
-- I'd stay away from projectile extermination. You may break a window or a light fixture on the richochet.

Forms of CHEMICAL Warfare:
-- Windex, Glass Plus or one of their spray bottles filled with 70% IsoPropyl Alcohol will kill ANY insect if you get a DIRECT HIT on them that goes UNDER their wings and reaches their bodies (thorax). Insects don't have lungs & nostrils like a frog. Insects breathe air in thru tiny little rows of air tubes in their bodies that have tiny holes at the surface of their outer body. The bugs can swim in water because the water's SURFACE TENSION is so great that the WATER can NOT enter into the tiny air capillary by iself. ... But the soaps or detergents or the alcohols BREAK the SURFACE TENSION, and allow that water and cleaning chemical to ENTER & FILL the AIR TUBES and DROWN the little bugger in just a few seconds.

-- By using IPA or a quality spray window cleaner as your chemical weapon of choice, your over-spray will clean up very easily, and clean up the bug mess when you grab / smush the cricket, too. Also, using an alcohol (IPA or De-NA) virtually eliminates the concern about aerosol or liquid contact contamination, because the alcohol & little bit of water will soon evaporate.

I stopped using oil-based indoor bug sprays ~ 7 years ago when I first read this strategy, as suggested by someone discussing how to use soaps to eradicate insect pests in a garden, ... (or something like that). Once I realized how it worked, that was the end of using all those bug sprays that stain wood, dis-color paint, and stink so bad they almost kill you in the process.

Better living thru better chemistry, ... Cliff Hall, FL-USA.