There aren't many mosquitoes in Winnipeg but there are plenty of fish flies in Gimli.

Katie Madziak was camping there over the weekend. She says they were basically everywhere.

"Waking up and there's just like sillouettes of fish flies all over your tent and then we came outside and fish flies were all over everything we left on the picnic table, and our towels, and our bathing suits."

She says for a moment she wasn't sure she could go through with it, but she got passed it.

"I was afraid to get out of the car, but then... you just kind of embrace it and you're like, 'well they're here and we're here.' and they don't bite so, you know, they're kind of gross but you get used to them."

Jordan Bannerman, an instructor in the Entomology department at the University of Manitoba, says fish flies emerge from the water every July for mating. He says they head to shore in whatever direction the wind is blowing them and they look for any surface they can grab onto, where they molt and then return to the water, where they mate. He says fish flies pose no risk, and they don't even have mouth parts.