unreal lightning...

[Squid kids Dad]

Thoughts and prayers go to the familys....Happened up here to a high school coach maybe 15 years ago...He got hit on the football field..Damn shame

[RickBomba]

I was out in that storm with my Lami...one of my buddies was using my Fenwick HMG and started going "Ouch, Ouch!"
I grabbed the rod from him and it was actually sparking with static; there was so much charge in the air.
We hitailed it to a gazebo, and I ran to get my truck in the rain, but I was a little afraid when I went to put the rods on the rack!!!
Caught soem fish though!
Later,
Rick

[fishdump]

A few years ago I was fishing off a jetty in jamestown when a fast moving cell came through. A bolt struck a mooring about 50 yards off the jetty. I felt the charge run up my arm that I was holding my rod in. The muscles in my arm and hands contracted and actually left marks on the grip. It scared the living you know what out of me. The instant precussion of the thunder knocked the guy I was fishing with down on the rocks. We got the heck out of there real quick. To this day I am very leary of going out if storms are predicted.