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No, but once I was on Barren fishing in an electrical storm condition day the sky's were really charged, I made a long cast was letting out slack for bait to sink and the excess line started raising up to the sky, I put that rod down. The one thing I'm most frightened of in the world is lightening.
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This also has happened to me on the Ohio River...fishing the falls during one of those River Rumble Tournaments...big dog was with me of course. I made a cast with 8lb test line; but my line refused to lay down on the water...it hovered over the water after I made the cast...like magic or something. I said to big dog..."hey...look at my line, it won't lay down on the water". He said.."LAY IT DOWN NOW!!!!"; I did right as he said that. That is when lightening cracked..sounded like it hit the rail road bridge close by. I've never had that happen to me fishing...or sence...unreal.Originally Posted by DaveR
I was also in Long Run Park years ago...when they had that frisby golf course; they had those metal baskets you tried to thow your frisby in. I was about 15 yards away...making a par toss...with sprinkles of rain...no thunder as of yet... when the basket I was throwing at was hit by a huge bolt of lightening! There was 4 of us...and we all were knocked to the ground..we all were completly knocked out and dazzed, is about the best way to describe it. It was like I had lost all time frame...and my hair...just like the movies was sticking strait up and out. I was sore for two day or so...Like my joints were stiff.
My fishing buddy...Sagaser...his father was hit by lightening at the Shelby Co. fair...showing his bull...when the chain he was holding was hit...it killed him and the bull. Bad stuff. God Bless his family.
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