I was flyfishing the Laramie, Wyoming area a couple days ago and had a very odd
phenomena one afternoon: when casting I would get an electrical discharge from the
reel seat to my wrist. There were thunderstorms brewing so my first thought is that I'm
about to be struck by lighting. I sat the rod down as quickly as possible and waited along
the shore. My friend also had this happen also. Another guy with his two daughters drove
and I walked over to warn him. Of course he assembles his flyrod and tries it himself...many
times. I had the camera ready in case I get an action shot of someone being hit by lighting.

Anyway, the only lighting that afternoon was so far away you couldn't even hear the thunder.
I was talking to another fisherman who was fishing a lake about 5 miles away who had the
same discharge. I've never had anything like that happen before. I'm not sure what is more
strange, the electric discharge or that there was not any lighting with atmospheric conditions
that would cause static charge generation so easily.

Has anybody else seen the same thing?