Lacassine and Lightning 4/21/2016

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I've personally seen lightning bring the bite to a halt both in freshwater and saltwater. We were in Willow Lake once in mid-summer catching bass like crazy and one of those fast moving storms hit before we could get out of the way. Fortunately it didn't last long, but the bite completely shut down afterwards. It also happened to me in West Cove one summer morning, I was catching trout and reds on the same reef and looked around to realize that I had just a small window of opportunity to get the hell out of there before a storm hit. I went back to the landing at Hog Island to wait out the storm and was able to get back out on the water in about 30 minutes. The bite was totally non-existent after the storm. I quit pushing my luck with approaching thunderstorms after that, it's not worth it to maybe catch a few more fish.