June Starts the way it generally ends--AWFUL

[striperjohn]

Launched at daylight and headed out to find breaking fish. Looked for about two hours and spotted one carp still trying to get rid of her eggs. Damn what a difference a week or so makes.
Went to my bait spot, one cast and needed help getting the net up out of the water. Probably had 12 dozen ales of different sizes. Dumped about 6 dozen in tank and begin culling while looking for fish. Nada, nuttin! I mean we couldn't falsify a striper on the screen!
Headed up "the dark side" (insert dreary, scary music here) and spotted a couple guides blocking the channel so dropped off plane and moved around. Spotted two breaking fish near them and then a couple on the screen. Just as we were putting bait out about 500 yards away from them, they get their lines in and leave.
The old "you should of been here a couple hours ago".

   We tried long free lines, 35-40 foot free planers lines, weighted lines, down lines, floats and a couple times dead bait-nada, nuttin--I mean not even a catfish and/or a white perch! We did manage to boat one nice largemouth.
   Finished the day with a SKUNK on the stripers, spotted a ten/ten passenger on a wavemaker that would have made a great stripper , (well I would have paid her!). Dirty ole man I yam I yam.
We wanted to fish longer but the storms kept getting closer and closer and spotted lightning-- and boats don't mix well--hauled butt to the ramp just in time to avoid the high winds and a bit of hail along with torrential downpours. Guys ask me why a 200 on a 19 foot boat--because it will run 68MPH with three guys, loaded bait tank, 18 rods and all my gear--nuff said. Nasty, nasty storms!

     At the ramp some guys were trying to get a 30 foot mast (lightning rod!)on a sailboat as we were taking the boat out. Guys wife comes up to us and whispers, you guys should really hurry as he's never done this before and that mast is like 300 lbs!  So we yanked the boat out asap, just in time to see them almost drop it right where my boat was, control it and then get it inline and on. Launching that thing with the storms coming right at them? Huh?

Be careful out there folks,

Cheers,

John

[mwardncsu]

This storm? Pulled these off Facebook. Yeah - you don't want to be out in that..... Glad you guys got off the water in time.

[Gator]

Thanks for the report Striperjohn. I saw on the news this morning where a young boy in WV was struck by lightning and killed while fishing yesterday. Being from Florida, I have seen my fair share of bad lightning storms and it is not something you mess around with.

[Deleted]

I wonder if this is the same cloud?

[mwardncsu]

HA! Probably so......