06-26-2023, 05:34 PM
(06-26-2023, 03:57 PM)Fisharefriends Wrote:I did. I was fishing renegade bay a few years back and it got real gray and strange feeling as a T-storm approached. I was in a 14' Crestliner alloy boat and some real weird things started happening. First our lines and poles started vibrating and singing like a downrigger cable does but we had no riggers. Then I grabbed the tiller of the motor and got shocked just like you would if you grab a spark plug wire on a running motor. Then we were getting shocked the same way touching the metal boat. Not super painful but tingly enough that it was uncomfortable. Then we heard some guys in another boat yelling and screaming Holy Sh** so we got the heck off the water and hunkered down until it passed. So much static electricity in that cloud that I was sure we were seconds away from getting toasted by a giant lightning bolt. However, it never did fire off and no lighting cracked while we were there.(06-26-2023, 12:45 AM)obifishkenobi Wrote: 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?