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Tom · Joined: 20 Jan 2010 Posts: 19 Location: New Milford, CT

I was fishing a cove in New Fairfield yesterday when a thunderstorm popped up over the hill. Since I was stuck anyway, and figured the cove would be safer than running home on the open lake I trolled up and down the cove.

At the height of the thunder and lightning the Trout went wild. I had four between 2 and 3 pounders as fast as I could reel up and reset the downriggers. The storm passed and the bite stopped, but it was a wild ten minutes! Laughing

Bluegill Terminator · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 538 Location: Plainville

That happend to me one time striper fishing in Maine. It was 11 pm and there were 2 storms coming over the beach my father said I was nuts but I went out anyway. Every second there was a lightning bolt and when the 2 storms or cells met the rods bent in half the first rod I caught a 29 incher which I had to release due to Maine laws and then 2 mintues later I catch my personal best striper at 36.5 inches Laughing

Again I had to release due to Maine laws but that was the best 20 minutes of my life.

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