Now that's scary...but funny!

[kjackson]

I was fishing with a walleye pro in Minnesota when something similar happened. He cast his jig out, but the line made a big upward bow and stayed up...Then he said, "Listen to this," and held up his rod. As he lifted it from horizontal, I could hear it snapping--and the closer it came to vertical, the more it sounded like a Geiger counter. Unlike Blackie, we threw the rods down and headed for the nearest covered dock.  The thunderstorm that hit shortly after was one of the most violent I've seen.

I've also had the line stay up the air after a cast as well--but in a clear sky with no lightning around...weird stuff, static electricity.

 

[bluebasser86]

I had my line hang in the air once right before a storm hit. We threw our stuff down and headed straight for the truck. Barely got it loaded up when one of the worst storms I've ever been in rolled through. Couldn't hardly see the front of the truck it was raining so hard and stuff was blowing everywhere. I was sure we were about to get picked up by a tornado.

My dad had a rod shocking him like that once too. It was an Ugly Stick with a metal Spirex and every time he tried to pick it up he had about an inch long blue spark light him up. That was the end of that day as well.