Seen a strong storm front moving in this evening. My brother and i loaded up the envoy and went out to the lake to catch some catfish during the storm. All of the sane people were leaving the lake as we were arriving so we had our pick of the several drive your truck up spots. Chose one that had tree stumps on the opposite bank that was with in casting distance. It was a light drizzle when we got there. Jumped out and set up the canopy real quick and got it staked down in case the winds picked up. The winds got pretty strong but we had trees on both sides to break the wind. Did not get too wet from the horizontal rain. It only rained hard for about an hour. There was not much lightning but there was one strike that did more than just light up the water. It blinded us to the point that it took at least ten seconds before i could see the glow sticks on my bobbers again. It was a pure white flash with thunder ~9 seconds later.
I run a light 14# line on my poles so i can cast to the other bank with a 1oz weight. Normally the largest i catch from this lake is about 10#. We were getting hits consistently but was also getting robbed. Possibly turtles. The five times the circle hook set, my line broke before i could get the fish in. Three times the fish must have went around a tree stump. One time it just got off. The one that i got to the bank was huge, 25# easy. This cat was not fitting in my net so i had to drag him onto the bank. He was almost close enough to grab. Fracking line broke and he got away before i could get a hold of him. Got a wet foot in the process. I would have let him go anyway though. Came home empty handed but had a good time.