Very mucho close to a strike one time, ears rang for thirty minutes after.
Wasn't fishing, it was a torrential rain storm some years back while I was at work.
Went out to my trunk to get a flashlight, and BOOM! A strike hit a tree about twenty feet from me.
Must've hit the deck as a reflex action, cause when I came up, one of the cars between me and the tree had a piece of pine tree smoking next to it.
Cost $1500 to fix my cook's quarter panel where it hit!!!
Felt like I got shoked just from the discharge or concussion of the explosion of the former tree!
Later,
Rick