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

Well, I apologize for the lack of posts this past week. It's certainly not because we weren't catching fish... The end of the School Year is terrible for paperwork... then fishing every afternoon until dark... I'm not complaining though... Here's a few shots of some clients and friends that were onboard this past week or so... The King bite has been HOT on all of the lie bottoms and AR's within a few miles of the beach this past week with fish up to the 30lb range being caught live baiting. Lots of Cobia have showed up along Bogue Inlet and the Spanish have finally started blitzing all over nearshore. We've been having fun casting a pair of 1/8oz double spec rigs to busting fish and hooking up many doubles. The flounder bite is a little slower than last year so far but were managing to pick up half a dozen to a dozen or more while mixing it up with some Kings and Spanish. The redfish are all over the surf and backwaters. The only problem in the backwaters is the 1000's of yards of Gillnet almost everywhere you go. I even found 22 - 100yd gill nets in one 1/2 mile area with many nets almost connected end to end blocking you out from the shore. But, we're still managing to land good numbers of 24 to 30in redfish. We've released about 50 nice reds this past week with most caught on spinnerbaits and topwater baits. The extreme high tides have pushed many of these fish way up into Bogue Sound and they should begin spreading out as they look for shrimp, mullet, shad, and crabs to gnaw on. In the last picture above I had Chuck Spaulding, David Justice, and Dan from BERKLEY aboard. These Reps tested out the Berkley Alive first hand on our Flounder fishery. We fished from 3:00pm until 6:00pm and wound up landing 15 flounder with 13 keepers (most of which weighed from 2 to 3lbs. Great Job Guys. This product should be on the shelves at Dudley's Marina, the Neuse Sport Shop, and other leading tackled dealers within a few weeks. Capt. Jeff Cronk- FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS. 910-326-7512