what are these?

[maxie]

anybody know what these are there was loads of them on the beach the other day.i was told they are flounder eggs.
they are attached to the sand somehow.

[Fester]

Black Rosary Beads without a cross?

[Puggy]

I remember seeing loads of them on a beach last year and wondered what they were, id like to know aswell.

[skippy]

no idea but i am sure davey holt can tell you

[Davy Holt]

Hiya,

no idea but i am sure davey holt can tell you

LOL I think they are egg casses of sorts.. I remember seeing a bit about them a few months back .. I'll see if i can dig out more info when I get home from work.

[maxie]

there was the odd green one scattered about that a lad said were plaice eggs and when i was on a different beach where the main catch is plaice there was a fair few of them on that beach as well.

[Davy Holt]

Hiya,

they aint fish eggs.. I'm pretty sure it was egg cases from one of the sand worms

[dabcatcher]

recently the estuary i use has had loads on the mud. i have seen these for years but never knew what the were. i read somewhere that they are ragworm eggs and after closer inspection they are exactly the same colour green as the spawning worms. these also coincided with the mud having loads of green spawning worms in it.

lugdont do this and spawn straight into the water. my traus at some times of the year are either full of eggs [look like sand]or milt as the worms release them into the water.

[Fisher_Nick]

Hiya,

they aint fish eggs.. I'm pretty sure it was egg cases from one of the sand worms

correct, i think, spent alot of time last term studying marine invertabrates, they are either the egg cases or sperm packets from lugworms.

dabcatcher, rag spawn in midwater, coming out of the sand at night in summer months.

[dabcatcher]

correct, i think, spent alot of time last term studying marine invertabrates, they are either the egg cases or sperm packets from lugworms.

dabcatcher, rag spawn in midwater, coming out of the sand at night in summer months.

i,m obviously wrong but locally the rag have been spawning for the last couple of months. i know they take to swimming when green though and have seen loads on the surface on a calm night.

the lug i have seen spawn also did so into the water and not in packets.

the mud around my traps can have loads of these little green blobs stuck to the sand in an area that doesnt see flatfish in any quantity, but during the summer the pools around my tires have loads of tiny flatfish about 1/2in long.