(Be sure to click through all the images in the gallery above.)When fishing at night or in the gloaming — as dark and light mingle — savvy anglers turn to glowing attractants. In fact, luminous terminal tackle mirrors actual biological triggers that encourage fish to bite.“Light-mimicking bioluminescence [could] be a key reason for the fish attraction,” says NOAA fisheries biologist Erik Lang. “Of course the more senses you attack in the fish, the better the results in getting them to bite.”Many predatory fish, for instance, eat squid — a bait that commonly shimmers and changes color because of bioluminescence. Anglers have capitalized on that trait by using light sticks to target a known squid predator: the swordfish. Most of those colorful sticks illuminate in blues, greens and whites, or a coupling of more than one, to attract the ...![luminescent-tackle-03]()
