I decided to walk over to a pond yesterday afternoon when I fishinshed planting my dads garden, took my 2 girls and my girlfriends 2 girls with me. When we left dads he commented we might have 15-20 min to fish it was thundering down south around e-town, but since the pond is only maybe 150 yrds away that means some fishing. After about 20 min it started to sprinkle and my 2 girls and 1 of Kims started walking back to my parents. I decided to make a few more cast when something really freaky happened, my rod ( 7ft) started making a really weird sound kinda like a humming sound and shook for a second then lightning hit right in front of me. I tossed it down and jumped back but nothing more happened. I took the last girl and my backside out of there. My daughter seen the lightning hit the pond as she put it right in front of you. That has never happened before anyone else ever heard of a pole making a noise like that?