NCCHARTERFISHING-Capt.'s Jeff Cronk and MIke Taylor-Crystal Coast, Swansboro, Emerald Isle

November 10-12 RECAP... Well, with a tournament coming up on Sat. the 12th... Jason Guthrie and I decided to do a little pre-fishing. We spent some time fishing the waters from New River in Jacksonville all the way to Cape Lookout and almost to the Neuse River in search of Big Trout.... NADA... we caught more 1.5 to 3.2lb trout than we knew what to do with but no bigboys... so, we decided to hit the Jetty on the day of the tourny and see if we could wiggle in a hole that was holding some decent fish. We ran the ocean from Casper's Marina to the Jetty and managed a great time of just under 40 min.'s (about 35 miles from home). We got there and to our surprise no one was anchored on the hole we wanted... we anchored up and began wearing out the 2 to 2.5lb trout with hopes of a big one in the mix... about an hour and a half into it and we had already caught upwards of 40 good sized trout. With not many boats on the Jetty catching any trout at all... and a few boats catching a couple of spikes... we thought maybe the 80degree temps and slick water had shut them down... so, we up and left with 6hours of fish time left to try and pick off a couple of bigger fish on the internal waters to up our weight. We worked about 6 holes from MHC back to Swansboro and managed to boat another 40 speckled trout from 1 to 2.5lbs but couldn't find that one big trout we wanted... we pulled into weigh-in at Casper's Marina to find that the bite picked up at the Jetty about 1:00pm along with the wind and several of the other teams that took the chance at the JETTY and waited it out caught fish up to and just over 5lbs. We wound up with a 3 fish weight of 8.5lbs with our largest fish at 3lbs 2oz. The top five standings were teams captained by 1st place- Ashley Melton, 2nd Place- David Moore, 3rd Place- Richard Peterson, 4th Place- Ricky Kellum, 5th Place- Jeff Cronk. There were 10 positions paid for the 3 fish aggregate. The calcutta for largest fish went to 1st Place- Richard Peterson, 2nd Place- Ashley Melton, 3rd Place David Moore. There were a bunch of positions paid and recognized for the Junior Anglers and Lady Anglers and there were a mess of drawing prizes given out to boot. It was an awsome tournament and turn-out with just over 50 boats fishing. The top fish weighed was close to 6lbs. As soon as more details regarding all positions and weights are released I will edit this report and repost with UPDATED in the subject line. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE Charters.