Lightning

[Mike P]

I got caught out in the open once. I took shelter in a low area between a couple of dunes. Any idea what thunder sounds like when lightning hits something about 100' away?

[Rockfish9]

Makes you feel ALIVE.... I've been caught in it quite a few times through the years....being older and a tad wiser they don't sneak up on me like they used to.. seen some fantastic fishing during the storms though... and like you said totally shut down after the front passed...

I remember one night I had a charter out and a nasty one came through... the guy's were doubling up 20 lb class fish on every cast.... lighting was dancing from mast to mast on the sail boats.. they didn't want to leave... finally when the antennae on the boat started to hum I pulled the plug...back at the dock... his alarm went off on the truck... some how the lighting had enabled it leaving him stranded... he had to call for a tow back to western mass....he called me the next day and told me it was the best fishing trip of his life but the on board computer in his truck was fried....

[Cool Beans]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Any idea what thunder sounds like when lightning hits something about 100' away?

As a teenager, fishing on a Kansas farm pond when lightning hit the only tree around, which happened to be 30 feet to my right. It was a tiny scrub of a tree about 8 feet tall.

Funny thing with lightning strikes that close, all the hair on your arms and back of your neck seems to stand on end a second or so, before the near blinding flash and deafening crack of thunder.

Luckily growing up in Kansas, I knew when your outdoors and you feel your hair stand on end, you promptly "belly flop" in the grass, so all I got was scared "spittless". With the only thing around that "used to be" taller than me gone, I ran/crawled the 1/4 mile back to my truck and called it a day.