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Title: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: SurfJockey on September 29, 2011, 09:43:10 AM
http://davidhatfieldphotography.com/blog/bioluminescent-beaches-a-shot-from-from-san-diegos-red-tide-sept-27th/

My buddy had posted this link on Facebook.  Figured I'd share.  I witnessed something like this in SSP a few years back. (Photo attached)  
While fishing the jetties earlier this week I noticed a bunch of neon green glowing globs in the water.  I wonder if that will cause something like this again?  
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: Offshore Madness on September 29, 2011, 09:59:16 AM
Sweeeeeeet......
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: gymrat987654321 on September 29, 2011, 10:54:04 AM
I think they're some type of plankton. Not totally sure though.
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: Bucktail on September 29, 2011, 11:21:24 AM
Very cool! t^
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: Fishin Dude on September 29, 2011, 12:09:00 PM
Cool. Must be evne cooler to have witnessed it in person. <'((((><
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: Pfishingruven on September 29, 2011, 12:35:18 PM
I witnessed this last year also in SSP!  It was eery at first.  You are fishing, it is pitch black out and then you start seeing lights in the water!  You think you are going crazy or your eyes are playing tricks on you(or someone else is).

The one I saw was only about 50-75 yards wide.  It only seemed to be right in the surf or right outside the surf.  It was cool!  I think what I saw were salps and they were neon green/yellow.  They also fouled my line really bad.  They felt like jelly fish, but as soon as they were out of the water for just a few minutes they would get as hard as a clam shell!

 TT^
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: SurfJockey on September 29, 2011, 12:39:02 PM
Yeah Matt!  Those things terrorized my reels this Spring in the daylight, so not sure if those were the same glowing things I saw.  Picking them dried up things off my braid was a pain. 
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: Pfishingruven on September 29, 2011, 02:31:35 PM
Yeah Matt!  Those things terrorized my reels this Spring in the daylight, so not sure if those were the same glowing things I saw.  Picking them dried up things off my braid was a pain. 

I think they are the same thing?  They go with the tide, current and waves.  Sometimes there aren't any and a few waves later, a huge slick of them.  They fouled me so bad, I cut the line and pulled it in by hand!  Almost impossible to get off and forget about it if they get some sand on them...it's like concrete!!

They were cool to see at night, though!

 TT^
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: IrishAyes on September 29, 2011, 03:55:58 PM
Years ago, when I used to fish the surf, if we saw 'fire in the water', we would turn around and not bother fishing. It would shut the bite right down.

The luminescence is phosphorescent plankton.
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: gymrat987654321 on October 02, 2011, 02:30:20 PM
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/30448/electrifying+blue+waves+luring+awe-struck+crowds+to+san+diego+beaches/
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: Pfishingruven on October 02, 2011, 02:52:38 PM
Years ago, when I used to fish the surf, if we saw 'fire in the water', we would turn around and not bother fishing. It would shut the bite right down.

The luminescence is phosphorescent plankton.

That's what you should do...I learned that the hard way, LOL cfzd rofla!

 TT^
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: SurfJockey on October 02, 2011, 02:59:24 PM
Nice find on the video Art.   t^
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: BigAl13 on October 02, 2011, 04:16:30 PM
When I was a kif my grand parents had a house in lbi in the yard was a lagoon. I remember seeing those glowing things at night I always though they were jelly fish
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: Hotrod on October 02, 2011, 05:03:34 PM
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[youtube=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFFzHs9zUg8&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: SouthPaw on October 02, 2011, 06:45:28 PM
I saw the green glow three years ago along the Belmar coast. At first coming into the back side of Seaview Island it looked like I had underwater lights from the back of the boat, and the wake was glowing also. It was a pretty cool experience. We then went to the beach and it was lit up too. That was in October, haven't seen it since then.
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: Offshore Madness on October 02, 2011, 11:04:18 PM
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[youtube=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFFzHs9zUg8&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]
 


thats awesome t^
Title: Re: Bioluminescent Beaches
Post by: Scott G. on October 03, 2011, 10:00:47 AM
 clp clp    VERY COOL    clp clp