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06-05-2007, 10:33 PM
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The one that got away
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: K'Port, ME/Westford, MA
Posts: 118
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A bonehead move
Now I'm all about braving the elements, but going out in a thunderstorm on the end of a jetty next to a large metal beacon, isnt that a bit much.
I was just getting out of work when the storms rolled through the kennebunk/kennebunkport area today, so i figured id watch the storm in my car at the jetty of the kennebunk river. I got out there as bolts of lightning were hitting all around me. To my surprise there were 2 guys at the end of the jetty casting away. I honked at them and tried to wave them in because the storm was right over us. They paid no attention to me.
After about 5 minutes of watching these guys one of them turned in and began to walk back to his truck. I rolled my window down and asked him if he had a death wish. About a minute later a bolt struck the flagpole on the point to my left about 500 yards away. This woke the second guy up and he began running to his truck.
Now I can see fishing in rain wind heavy surf, but lighting without any shelter? that was just dumb i honestly couldnt see how putting a fish in front of your own saftey.
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. 
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06-06-2007, 07:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Southern Maine
Posts: 178
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Yeah,was a hell of a thunder/lightning show down here too!
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06-06-2007, 10:54 AM
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Fish Hound
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Shrewsbury, MA & Mashpee, MA
Posts: 1,159
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i woulda been fishin from the top of the pole. u get better leverage from up there  |
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart.....pursue those."
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06-06-2007, 11:09 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Wakefield, RI
Posts: 315
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Shocking behaviour.......
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"When you stare into the abyss....wink. It'll confuse the hell out of it."
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06-06-2007, 11:47 AM
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must find the fish
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Shore Ma
Posts: 712
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i'm still young and stupid. i was even more so when i younger. my mother would drop me off at whitmans pond at 6am on her way to work in the summer. and there i would stay till 8pm. every day. with nothing but a bottle of water and bag of chips. many days storms would roll in and there i would be knee deep fishing. nothing better than a storm to bring out those lunkers. honestly i will still fish in a thunder storm. with my rod tip very very low... side arm casting. but there is a point where even i will (and did when i was younger) say "hey this is a bad idea." and i think from what you described i would have been off that jetty with the first crack of thunder. now that i'm older i have the luxury of fishing from inside a car during those..  |
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06-06-2007, 12:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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Looked like a "Darwin Award" winner to me!
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06-06-2007, 01:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South of Boston
Posts: 2,605
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Lightning is the one thing that keeps me out of the surf. Scary stuff.  |
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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06-06-2007, 03:33 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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