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

I had Tim Staley onboard early this morning hoping to get into the speckled trout we found Thursday... Got there at daybreak and so did about 9 other boats. We had one between 4 and 5lbs explode on the surface and it pulled off as I had to drag it out of the way of a boat that wanted to pass (with their outboard running) between me and the shore I was casting too... Seriously irritating as there was about 50yds of channel on my backside... Anyway, the bite wasn't good so we picked up and changed strategy. We moved on to fish the flats and shoals and within minutes were casting to a school of about 1000 redfish from 5 to 12lbs in 2ft of Gin Clear water. A couple hours and 50 redfish later we were bored as their was no challenge. The wind died out so we thought we might be able to find some flounder fishing the ledges and live bottoms since our water temps are several weeks ahead of schedule. We started off jigging some seabass up to 1.5lbs using stingsilvers tipped with Berkley cut baits. The second stop we made we found some flounder. We spent about an hour working this ledge with bucktails tipped with berkley gulp shrimp and landed 5 flounder and lost several more. We had several fish over 3lbs. Call FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS/ Capt. Jeff Cronk 910-326-7512 or TAYLOR'MADE CHARTERS/ Capt. Mike Talor 252-725-2623 for open dates for targeting Flounder, Trout, Redfish, Sea-Bass, Bonito, and Bluefish throughout April.