Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Chet with a Grouper caught in 120 feet of water, The trolling was slow so we decided to jerk lips off the bottom. 2 groupers and a dozen big Beeliners. Fun, fun ,fun
Saltwater Redneck Charters
The fishing continues to get better, the Kingfish are beginning to show, time to get hooked up to a SMOKER!
Saltwater Redneck Charters
6/28/06 Had Tommy McDaniel and Ron onboard this morning then eased in to pick up there two boys to finish out the day... Awsome day for fishing and boating... These guys put it to the fish today landing just over a dozen Redfish up to 26 3/4 in., 13 sheepshead, 6 black drum, and 3 flounder. SUPER Job Guys! Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS- 910-326-7512, 336-558-5697, or email Jcronk@ec.rr.com
6/28/06 The McDaniels Crew with another "first ever redfish," Super job guys! Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE....
6/28/06 The McDaniels Crew with one of a dozen redfish caught today on live bait. Great Job Guys on your first reds ever! Capt Jeff Cronk- Fish'n4life
6/28/06 Capt Mike Taylor's Crew today with a deckload of purrty fish... They wound up with about 20 Reds, 8 sheepshead, and 2black drum. Great Weather and a great day of Fish'n. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE
6/28/06 Client aboard with Capt. Mike Taylor today holding a big sheepshead... Excellent! Capt Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
6/27/06 The Nussman family onboard today (Jeff, Mike, Margaret, Will, and Hannah). We fished in and out of the rain today and these guys were troopers... it all payed off though... We wound up landing about 25 Redfish up to 26 3/4in, 24 sheepshead up to 3lbs, and some black drum and bluefish. Great day of fishing even in the cruddy weather... Great job guys! Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE- 910-326-7512 OR 336-558-5697 OR EMAIL JCRONK@EC.RR.COM
6/27/06 Here's another Big sheepshead the Nussman group got to the net... Capt. Jeff Cronk
6/27/06 Will Nussman with another big redfish... this one was just in the slot at 26 3/4in.... he slammed a live shrimp. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS- 910-326-7512
6/27/06 Jeff and Mike Nussman with a 2+lb Sheepshead today... the bite was on!- Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS- 910-326-7512
6/27/06 Will Nussman with another 2.5lb sheepshead... fishing in the rain..... Capt. Jeff Cronk- Fish'n4life Charters-
6/27/06 James Godfrey and the boys onboard with Capt. Mike Taylor this morning (Tues) wearing out the redfish in the rain. These guys caught and released about 40 reds up to 29in. and 2 black drum during an 8hr trip. Capt. Jeff Cronk
Monday, June 26, 2006
6/26/06 Weather was kind of crappy today but I had a few friends aboard for about 4 hours this Monday morning... we managed to work some protected waters around Bogue Sound and surrounding backwaters and flat wore out the redfish. We caught and released close to 25 redfish with the largest at 29 1/2in along with a nice black drum and several flounder. What a day! Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE- 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com for open dates.
6/26/06 Amy with another 19in redfish... what a day... what a bite! No Boats Anywhere!
Sunday, June 25, 2006
6/24/06 Mike, Joey, Jesse, and George down from Raleigh on Sat. to do some fish'n... We fished both the ocean and the sound for an 8hr trip. We caught fish pretty steady throughout the day and managed to land 1 king (14lbs), 10 flounder with 8 keepers up to 3+lbs, 10 black drum, 3 redfish, 3 speckled trout, 2 sheepshead and a bunch of other stuff. Excellent fish'n guys... Way to hang in there Mike! Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS- 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com
6/24/06 Jesse and Joey with a couple of flounder over 3lbs each... Excellent! Capt. Jeff Cronk-FISH'N4LIFE
6/24/06 George with a 14lb king mackerel on light spinning tackle about 2 minutes after we dropped our bait in the water. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE
6/23/06 Scott and his son Brad on vacation from up North decided to try some fishing here in Swansboro. We worked some flats in the area using live shrimp and topwater baits and managed to hook-up with 8 redfish and kept our limit with the largest at 26in. along with a handful of black drum during a 4hr afternoon trip on Friday. Great fishing with you guys... Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS... 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com
6/23/06 Brad with a 26in. Redfish that exploded on a Zara Spook in some shallow water in here in Swansboro. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE- 910-326-7512 OR 336-558-5697
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
6/19/06 The Harris Family (Phen, Walker, Foster, and Chasey) down from MHC to get on a redfish bite today with Capt. Mike Taylor of Taylor Made Charters. These guys hit the afternoon rising tide and managed hook-up after hook-up all afternoon during a 4 hour trip. They wound up landing about 20 reds from 17 to 26in. with some black drum mixed in. They managed to work around the strong winds and put fish in the boat! Awsome job guys (and Gal).... Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE - 910-326-7512 OR 336-558-5697 OR email jcronk@ec.rr.com... ps guys... right click and you can save your photo to your computer...
6/19/06 Jeff holding a 4.5lb sheepshead. The Worrell family onboard for a 4hour trip on Monday morning. With little 4yr old Paul onboard we changed plans this morning and decided to work the internal waters for reds and sheepshead. Bill and the group did an awsome job of working hooking up with red and black drum. We spent about 2 hours working live shrimp to land 14 red drum and 2 black drum along with a speckled trout and a small flounder. On the way in we stopped on some pylons and pulled in 3 sheepshead with a 4.5lber! Super Job Guys and awsome fishing with you! Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE - 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com
Sunday, June 18, 2006
6/17/06 OOOPs... almost forgot this small cobia that Ed Gatton's group popped on a light spinning rod and bucktail before we wet a line for flounder in the am.... Capt. Jeff Cronk
6/18/06 Lee Bryant and his bro's with an awsome bite today during an 8hour trip. These boys layed it to the BIG spanish with about 25 knockdowns on light spinning tackle... We managed to get 8 spanish from 4 to just under 6lbs into the box and released a few small kings before the bite slowed. Then we moved on to working some nearshore hard bottom for some flounder. We wound up boating 20 flounder and had 15 keepers with most fish just over 2lbs and the largest just under 5lbs. A few seabass and sharks to mix it up and WHAT A DAY ON THE WATER! It was good fish'n with you guys again this year Lee... Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com
6/18/06 Check out this puurrrrty flatty that weighed in just under a citation and struck a bucktail. Awsome! Capt. Jeff Cronk
6/18/06 Another big flatty for the Bryant crew! Capt. Jeff Cronk
6/17/06 Ed Gatton and Crew aboard today for a 6hr morning trip. We started out looking for flounder and these guys persisted and fished hard landing 14 flounder with 10 keepers from 15in. to just over 4lbs. We also managed to land 3 sheepshead on the way back to the dock during a quick stop on some pylons. Great fish'n with you guys today... I look forward to having you onboard again... Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS- 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com
6/17/06 Yeah!!!! look at this 5lb brute that slammed a mud crab about 7ft down during a quick stop for some sheepshead on the way back to the docks.... Capt. jeff Cronk FISH'N4LIFE
6/17/06 Another summer flounder for the gatton crew! Sweeeet... Capt. Jeff Cronk
6/17/06 The Gatton Crew with another summer flounder along some live bottom near the beach. Capt. Jeff Cronk
6/16/06 Jeff and father, Clarence Harbour onboard for a 6hour morning trip. We got into some reds in the shallows landing 7 from 18 to 24in along with a few small black drum. There was a great bite on the sheepshead and these guys managed to put about 8 sheepshead in the boat and kept 6 from 1.5 to 4.5lbs. Super morning on the water! Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS- 910-26-7512, 336-558-5697, or email jcronk@ec.rr.com
6/16/06 Another shot of the deformed redfish... Capt Jeff
6/16/06 "Aadriaaan" I think that's what Rocky said when he took a beating in the ring.... WOW! look at this redfish's expression... Anyway, Clarence hooked up with this 24in. red while we were working boat docks... it's head was all deformed with no scars.. Capt. Jeff Cronk
6/16/06 Jeff Harbour and his father Clarence with a few back to back sheepshead that put up an awsome fight on light spinning tackle. Capt. Jeff Cronk FISH'N4LIFE
6/15/06 Ben and Luke Patrick aboard for a 4 hour afternoon trip looking for some inshore/ backwater fun. We found some reds working some shallow water and managed to land 6 from 17 to 26 1/2in. along with a small black drum. Then we got into a good sheepshead bite and put landed 8 sheepshead and kept 6 from 3/4 to 3 1/2lbs. Great Fish'n with you guys! It's always good to have a father and son onboard! Capt. Jeff Cronk- Fish'n4life Charters- 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com
6/15/06 Luke Patrick with the largest red he's ever caught.... 26 1/2in. Super Job Luke! I hope the arm is feeling better! Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE-
6/15/06 Ben Patrick and his son Luke with another puppy drum during their 4hr afternoon trip. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'
6/15/06 Luke Patrick with a sheepshead just over 4lbs. Super Job Buddy! Capt. jeff Cronk-FISH'N4LIFE
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
4/11/06 Chase Rogers, of Myrtle Beach, with a 4lb flounder (that had a broken neck), while fishing aboard Taylor-Made Charters with Capt. Mike Taylor on Sunday. Keep an eye out for Chase as he was on top in Wrestling this year... Chase, I'm expecting to see you with the pros or in the AFC or something.... Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE
4/12/06 Regular Clients... the Greer brothers from Va. onboard today hoping to get into the ocean to target the flounder, kings, mahi, cobia, etc. like they do every year but mother nature wouldn't have it ... with thunderstorms and strong wind gusts moving through the area all day we opted to stay inside and work the backwaters. It turned out to be a good day despite the set back... We wound up landing about 15 sheepshead from 3/4 to a few just under 5lbs along with 10 red drum and 3 black drum working the flats in the sound and river. Aswome job guys and I appreciate the willingness to target other species. As always, it was fun fish'n with you onboard. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE- 910-326-7512 OR 339-558-5697 OR email jcronk@ec.rr.com
6/12/06 Rob Greer with a sheepshead just under 5lbs today.... the bigger fish have moved in. Capt. Jeff Cronk-FISH'N4LIFE- 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com
4/12/06 Rob Greer with one of 10 reds landed on artificials and live bait today... Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS
Monday, June 12, 2006
6/11/06 Joe Craig and family of High Point, NC onboard today. Just as soon as we got out a few miles off the beach the wind turned to the NE and picked up to 20+mph with a passing storm. We anchored up and rode it out while putting a few nice flounder and bass in the boat... followed by a nice dolphin. The weather cleared and we headed back inshore to land about 9 sheepshead. Joe managed to land 3 or 4 sheepshead on the flyrod! Sweeeet! Don't see that too often. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE- 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com
6/11/06 Joe and Ian with a very nice Mahi on a 4in light lined pogie landed on a light spinning set up with a Penn 360 slammer and 12lb test fireline. Sweeeeet Job Guys... pretty jumps from that one today! Capt. Jeff Cronk
4/11/06 Ian with a 1.5lb sheephead today using live fiddler crabs for bait... Man, this little guy could fish! Capt. Jeff Cronk
6/11/06 Joe and his son Ian with a 4.15lb flounder that struck a 4in live threadfin herring fished on a modified carolina rig. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS
Saturday, June 10, 2006
6/10/06 Dion and his mother Sue Lynn, Billy and his wife Mara onboard today an 8hr trip along the beach... It was a steady bite with fish on every spot we worked. We landed 17 flounder with 13 keepers and 5 fish over 3lbs. they also got a 25in. king and a 23in. Mahi along with some seabass up to 1.5lbs and an Almaco Jack.... A few sharks in the mix and we had a Cobia at the side of the boat that wouldn't cooperate and eat our baits... Oh well, that's fish'n! Great job guys.... Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE - 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697. Call asap for open dates... summer is booking fast. thanks for all your support. Capt. Jeff
6/10/06 Mara Getsey with a puuuurty door mat.... she caught this one on a 3in. live french grunt. Super Job Girl... Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE- 910-326-7512
6/10/06 Mara Getsey with a nice summer flounder just under 3lbs today.... this chic got the hang of it quick and did an excellent job hooking and landing the flatties! Capt Jeff Cronk-
6/10/06 Billy Getsey of Swansboro with a 3.75lb flatty during today's trip.... this one struck an artificial bait! Sweeeeet! Capt. Jeff Cronk
