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| How does lightning effect muskies? Do they seem to shut off afterwards for you? Or is the fact that a cold front usually comes in with the lightning? Is it a combination of everything: colder weather, lightning, the water usually getting murkier, etc?
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| Don't know if it affects them or not...I'm hauling backside at the first hint of the stuff! Too daggone dangerous to take a chance. A t-storm/lightening can blow in way too fast for me to take a chance; came a gnats backside of being struck once, and never forgot the feeling of realizing what almost transpired. Hard to fish when you're fried!:O |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | I have 3 of the "In Fisherman" musky videos. On one of them Jim Lindner and Dan Surra (sp?) are fishing the lee side of an island in the river. You can see billowing thunderheads in the background and hear thunder as well. As exciting as it was to see them catch a predictable fish off that spot, I was very disappointed that they set a poor example of safety on the water. I assume it wasn't their last taping.......... |
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Location: Kalamazoo, MI | We were out on the water this year fishing a pre frontal condition, when the wind picked up. Blew the storm right onto us in a matter of a minute or two. We could see the end of the storm front, and since the wind was still blowing good, we stuck it out. As soon as the storm clouds moved through, it calmed down a bit, and the thunder and lightning took off around the edges of the storm clouds. As we were fishing we kept hearing strang buzzing/humming/crackling sounds. It took us a few minutes to figure out what it was. Anytime we raised a rod for a cast, or just to work a lure, we would hear the noise. Finally put two and two together, and figured it had to be some sort of static electricity or something. Shortly there after, we called it a day. |
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Location: Woodstock, IL | Stephendawg - you must be referring to the Musky Doctors video. I have that one too. A nice musky was caught, but I agree that the conditions would have had me scrambling. |
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Location: Chicago, Beverly | One of my biggest fish was caught with a pretty serious storm approaching. The storm went about 15-20 miles north of where I was at but you could still hear the thunder. When the rod starts buzzing that is a bad sign. For me the day after a thunderstorm passed thru the fishing is usually not good. If I am on the water as it is approaching they seem to turn on, I just get off the water before the storm is too close. |
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Location: Lafayette, IN | Fishing just in front of a storm...generally great! Deaths on water by lightning strikes....generally just ahead of a storm. ...keep in mind my angling friends, Lightning is not the least bit "Bound" by the clouds producing it. How many times have you heard of kids getting zapped at ballgames where "They only heard thunder but there weren't any clouds"?Also. I distinctly remember one evening on Pelican Lake in Orr,MN where we watched a lightning display after dark about 50 miles away and the lightning was reaching WAY OUT into the starry sky surrounding the front. I personally don't play games with fate over a fish ...of any size! I'd like to go fishing "again" with my grand kids someday. |
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Lightning?