What were the lights?

When pier fishing on Donegal bay (whiting) last night - calm water and overcast sky - I noticed small flashing lights in the sea below my feet - a bit like glow-worm flashes. Does anyone know what they would have been?

What were you drinking?

some phospherescent shrimp or summit??? have seen it down this way before and always wondered wat they were

posably bioluminacent plankton

I knew the "drink" would be implicate - OK there was drink taken and I do not have witnesses (although if I had, they would most likely have been drunk) - but what was it I saw?. Glad lumpy has seen it - shrimpy size fits but they are unlikely to have been close to the surface - small fish?. Plankon are tiny - it would not have been them.

luminous beads as attractors are the most consistant fish takers in a variety of conditions.....

As one who has used lumi beads from time to time, I have often lost fish on the retreave. This I put down to the fish taking the beads rather than the bait. I'm still working on this problem. When I sort it out I'll let it known about 20 years later.

:lol: nice to know you're thinkin of us Donal!

We used to call them "Meeresleuchte" (sea lights) when I lived on the Island in the North Sea. It's a phosphorescent algae is what was explained to me.
It used to be great to go down and watch the edges of the waves sparkle and if you walk on it on the tidemark your footprints phosphoresce, really cool phenomenon.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... D%26sa%3DN


found this also small shrimp also glow