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04-17-2007, 02:14 PM
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Registered Grandpa
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clip on lightning detector---
saw it in a catalouge, according to mfg., detects lightning upto 40 miles away, audible alarm sounds when lightning is within striking distance and color LED shows direction of storm, $79.
Imho worth it ,especially for the jetty guys holdin grafhite lighting rods over their heads.  |
" Choose Life "
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04-17-2007, 02:28 PM
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Location: Cumberland, RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by justplugit
saw it in a catalouge, according to mfg., detects lightning upto 40 miles away, audible alarm sounds when lightning is within striking distance and color LED shows direction of storm, $79.
Imho worth it ,especially for the jetty guys holdin grafhite lighting rods over their heads. |
I've got one heck of s lightning detector... It's called my eyes...
(great, now I just cursed myself) |
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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04-17-2007, 05:52 PM
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Mosholu
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NYC
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Most jetty guys are nuts and would want to recalibrate it so it goes off at a mile.
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04-17-2007, 05:57 PM
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It's about respect baby!
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Location: ri
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when the hair on your arms stands up its time to pack it in  |
Domination takes full concentration..
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04-17-2007, 06:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Maine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber
when the hair on your arms stands up its time to pack it in |
HeeHeeHee, just one more cast........  |
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04-17-2007, 07:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Manhattan
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I know with my eyes when it's time to run!...
Can't say the same for most others it seems... |
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04-17-2007, 07:17 PM
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Fish Hound
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Shrewsbury, MA & Mashpee, MA
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if i can see it, theres time for one more cast. if not, fish on. thats my moto. my other one is that its never gonna hit me, always the guy to my left. so just make sure ure guy to the left is taller or has a taller rod and ull be all set.
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04-17-2007, 07:20 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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Flash, then "one-onethousand, two-onethousand....." If I don't make it to "15-onethousand" without hearing the boom, it's time to go. 3 miles or less, that's plenty close for my liking.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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04-17-2007, 07:33 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 4 hours from my favorite place
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I have a cheaper version. Its that little voice in my head that says "time to go"!!!!!!
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Simplify.......
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04-17-2007, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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When pole starts to buzz like a bumble bee ,you no you stayed to
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04-17-2007, 08:10 PM
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Registered User
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Location: Maine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shorehunter
When pole starts to buzz like a bumble bee ,you no you stayed to
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you mean that crackling sound....  |
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04-18-2007, 09:18 AM
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It's about respect baby!
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Location: ri
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shorehunter
When pole starts to buzz like a bumble bee ,you no you stayed to
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I know that buzzing!!!  |
Domination takes full concentration..
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04-18-2007, 09:21 AM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
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this thread is pretty funny..
one time I saw lighting on the horizon so I packed it in, as I was getting in my car like 10 minutes later the sky opened up and the lighting came down.... moved in pretty damn quickly!!
that's why it's good to have a glass rod.. those don't conduct electricity right???
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04-18-2007, 11:01 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I was at a breachway last year and a beautiful show was occuring over the ocean. I was landing alot of fish between 20-27 inches on my seven footer having a blast the night of my lifetime for fishing ( i just started) My fiance looks at me and says " we have to leave"
This was my first best night out on the breachway and i felt like the priest in caddie shack " This is the best game of my life" She dragged me away and on the way home a tree feel in front of us after being hit by lighting... I turn to her and say " it's a good thing I kept us out there a little longer right hunniee......" LOL i wanted to fish all night long in that storm
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04-18-2007, 12:24 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockport24
that's why it's good to have a glass rod.. those don't conduct electricity right???
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Regardless, metal guides and salt-water saturated fishing lines do  |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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04-18-2007, 12:27 PM
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Registered User
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Location: RI
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Lightening can ark 10 miles from the storm in some circumstances.
It scares the heck out of me.
-spence
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04-18-2007, 12:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
Regardless, metal guides and salt-water saturated fishing lines do |
Last I knew trees didn't conduct either... They get hit by lightning just fine. |
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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04-18-2007, 12:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
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yep , been there! Also when the rod starts discharging static like wool sweater on a dry day.
Anyway , I have experienced that static build up many times on the west wall and assorted breachways.
About two years ago , a guy I worked with was killed by lightning while fishing on a fresh water lake in maine. it does happen!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber
when the hair on your arms stands up its time to pack it in |
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04-19-2007, 12:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Spence is right - it can get you from more than 10 miles away.
If you can see/hear it, you're probably already in "strike range" ....
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