Sunday, August 20, 2006
8/20/06 Well, the weather man was off a little on the wind thing today. I left the dock around 6:30 this morning with Chris Wood and crew aboard hoping to wear out the big spanish (not the clarkspoon spaniards) and kings again. The forecast called for 5mph eventually 10+ in the afternoon.... YIKES, how about 10 to 15 at daybreak from the SW. Well, it wasn't a big deal the Triton handled her good in the 4ft seas. We dropped our lines back and within 2 min. we put a 26in. king in the box... then released a few... a few knockdowns that pulled the hooks.... then WHACK! a 20lb king slammed a mullet minnow on a medium light 7ft rod with a Penn 360 slammer loaded with 12lb fireline and proceeded to smoke it! It was a 20min Battle with one prong of a tiny no. 6 gold treble in the corner of his jaw and a 5lb drag before we boxed him. We threw back a couple more small kings and kept a 2.5lb spanish then switched over to flounder fishing. A little less than 2hrs of flounder fishing produced 8 keepers from 1.5 to 3lbs and a few throwbacks before heading back to the dock around 12:30. Excellent Job Guys! I look forward to having you onboard again... Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE- 910-326-7512 or 336-558-5697 or email jcronk@ec.rr.com.... PS. LOOK FOR THE ARTICLE ON FISHING FOR SUMMER FLOUNDER IN THE OCEAN IN THE 8/24 ISSUE OR THE LABOR DAY WEEK ISSUE OF THE FISHERMAN'S POST MAGAZINE. I HAD GARY HURLEY (FISHERMAN'S POST) AND DR. BOGUS ONBOARD FOR A FEW HOURS THAT MORNING.
