Bioluminescent Beaches

[SurfJockey]

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?  

[Offshore Madness]

Sweeeeeeet......

[gymrat987654321]

I think they're some type of plankton. Not totally sure though.

[Bucktail]

Very cool!

[Fishin Dude]

Cool. Must be evne cooler to have witnessed it in person. <'((((><

[Pfishingruven]

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!

 

[SurfJockey]

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. 

[Pfishingruven]

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!

 

[IrishAyes]

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.

[gymrat987654321]

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/30448/electrifying+blue+waves+luring+awe-struck+crowds+to+san+diego+beaches/

[Pfishingruven]

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 !

 

[SurfJockey]

Nice find on the video Art.   

[BigAl13]

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

[Hotrod]

.
[youtube=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFFzHs9zUg8&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]

[SouthPaw]

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.

[Offshore Madness]

.
[youtube=640,390]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFFzHs9zUg8&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]

 


thats awesome

[Scott G.]

      VERY COOL