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Wow! I always have wondered if lightning will actually hit a boat. I've had some days that I've been super nervous. What an awful way to go.
Had a freaky night back in the beginning of June in Soco. Got finished fluking and was a fish shy of my limit of Bass just before a storm rolled in. It looked like it was staying a few miles inland, so we stuck it out for a bit.
After a half hour or so, the wind direction shifted and started blowing the storm out to sea. Decided to make the run back and fish by the harbor's entrance, so we could get in quick if there was a problem. We stopped to make a drift, my friend cast his line out, and lo and behold, the 25# mono floated in the air and stayed there due to the incredible amount of static electricity out there. About the same time I'm watching his line suspend like magic, I hear a popping, buzzy sounding noise. Looked all over the console, thinking I had a loose wire, but quickly reallized the buzzing was coming from the end of my 7' graphite boat rod. It was literally crackling with electricity. I asked my friend to "quickly, QUICKly" reel that line in and gunned it. We shot in to the truck just in time and witnessed a major light show for a good half hour. That freaked us out a bit, to say the least.
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