07-25-2011, 11:19 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Sounds like there was a lot of static electricity in the air and your rods acted as a Van de Graff accelerator to pick up and store it. I made one of those in high school physics. You could really zap something when you set off the discharge.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No wonder you have such a shocking personality.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have had several trips where the hair on my arms stood up. And on one trip my line actually floated in the air...with no wind.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One before dawn trip out of the south marina at Willard...back in the late 70's...a fierce little storm cell came rushing in. It was windy and spitting lightning so I got off the water to wait it out. Just as I was getting out of the water a lightning bolt zipped right over me...not very far up...and hit the side of the mountains to the NE. I saw the bright light and the puff of dust. The clap of thunder at the same time just about knocked me down. The storm passed and the wind waves died down and I went back out and had a great session with some nice walleyes and crappies...and catfish. No wipers in those days.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I was down in New Orleans my fishing buddy had his metal boat hit by lightning as he was racing back in to get out of a storm. A lightning bolt actually skipped across the water and punched a hole in both sides of his high beamed boat. That's too close.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No wonder you have such a shocking personality.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have had several trips where the hair on my arms stood up. And on one trip my line actually floated in the air...with no wind.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One before dawn trip out of the south marina at Willard...back in the late 70's...a fierce little storm cell came rushing in. It was windy and spitting lightning so I got off the water to wait it out. Just as I was getting out of the water a lightning bolt zipped right over me...not very far up...and hit the side of the mountains to the NE. I saw the bright light and the puff of dust. The clap of thunder at the same time just about knocked me down. The storm passed and the wind waves died down and I went back out and had a great session with some nice walleyes and crappies...and catfish. No wipers in those days.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I was down in New Orleans my fishing buddy had his metal boat hit by lightning as he was racing back in to get out of a storm. A lightning bolt actually skipped across the water and punched a hole in both sides of his high beamed boat. That's too close.[/#0000ff]
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