Strawberry 6/22-25

[obifishkenobi]

Had a great time on your boat, I’m disappointed in myself for not taking any photos. Will try to write up a post later today.

Same here. Had a great time on Thursday fishing with Shawn and company. Myself and family had similar results on Friday and Saturday. No kokanee, mostly smaller cutts. Did you keep using your "sparky" rod Shawn?

I think you should tell the story, you noticed the very shocking development.

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I was with Shawn on Thursday and I can say his lack of Kokanee is certainly not for lack of trying!  He threw everything at them and covered a LOT of ground (well, water).  Still a really fun time with great company. The really strange thing that happened that I am still trying to figure out is a incident on the boat at the approach of a thunder storm.  We were trolling and had a graphite rod that we were not using in a metal pole holder. We started hearing a clicking sound coming from the base of the pole in the rod holder. When we touched the pole it was hot to the touch and seemed to have a electrical shock coming from it.  Shawn put on a rubber glove and grabbed the pole out of the holder and set (threw) in on the floor of the boat. We saw a small spark arc between the real and the pole when it hit the floor.  Shawn said the pole was hot to the touch.  The clicking noise stopped the second the pole was removed from the holder.  So...Was it the static electricity from the storm being picked up from the graphite rod and shorting out on the metal holder and boat?  Anyone ever experienced anything like that before? 

A detail we noticed later was the inside of the rod holder is plastic insulating the rod from the boat, I think when I pulled it out and put it on the metal floor of my boat it got grounded or discharged into the boat. We where watching lightning on the ridges south of us and took it as a sign to pack it in.