please read, really strange...

[coombro]

Lightning is gonna do what ever it wants to do. Whats the old saying "When you hear lightning count by seconds til you hear thunder and thats how many miles the storm is. If you see lightning its where you are.

[Swift1]

Had the same exact thing happen to me at Guntersville this year.........Funky stuff.

[brlfishing]

that is cool and scary at the same time. is the humming sound loud or low pitch. also a good post from the guy about how the fishing line kinda elevated. just goes to show you how much positive charge is building up. i find stuff like this very interesting. good post.

[mhall]

I've heard of this before also and you are very lucky.

[walkeraviator]

You havent seen anything til you have experienced st elmos fire. was at 24,000ft in a king air and the wings just started to glow. Have yet to see the ball lightning travel through the inside of teh cabin though...

[Ky 520]

do you guys remember the first elite series on Ky Lake in 2006 when Morizo Shimizu won it out in front of Moors?? this same thing happened to him and he was laughing and making a joke out of it when i would have been laying down in the boat... Another odd thing happened when his rod started buzzing, his fluorocarbon line was floating on the surface of the water which it isnt suppopsed to do... I just couldnt believe that he stayed right out there in it and kept fishing when lightening strike and even death could have been so close.

[justlookingn]

Google lightning facts for some interesting stuff. Dude you are lucky.

[olgreenboat]

You had become the first part of a strike it's called steped leader , You had posative charge going thrugh your body and rod up to the clouds this strped leader is the first part of cloud to ground lightning strike the lightning found its easyest path going to the water.. Your very lucky and its a good thing the rest of your family chose to get away I'm sure one would have been hurt real bad. I dont fish in bad weather it's just not worth it but if you guy's are going to do your self a favor and buy a glass rod to take with you it will help.

[demodan]

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.

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.
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.

[RoadToad]

Whats the old saying "When you hear lightning count by seconds til you hear thunder and thats how many miles the storm is. If you see lightning its where you are.

I wonder how many people have been killed because of this old saying. Sound doesn't travel 1 mile per second, it travels at about 1/5 of a mile per second. So if you see a lightning flash, and hear thunder one second later, that lightning was only 1/5 of a mile away! So, when you see lightning, count the seconds until you hear the thunder, then DIVIDE BY FIVE, and you'll be close to how far away it was.