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

Well, with my baby girl almost here i put the boat up for a couple weeks... But late Friday night Chris Pope of Boats Unlimited in New Bern called and said he had a new boat he wanted to test.... So, at the crack of dawn on Sat. I met up with Chris and his friends at Dudley's Marina in Swansboro to try our luck on some Trout and Reds. It was only 28 degrees out but the recent warm weather kept the waters warm as they were still 54-55 degrees in the sound and creeks. The first spot we stopped on starting producing trout from spikes to 2lbs. After an hour and several dozen trout we opted to move into the surf and look for some redfish. Within several minutes we were on a school of about 500 redfish ranging from 24 to 30 in. We worked them for a short while and moved on to locate a larger school which was holding several thousand fish with some larger. These guys had a ball sightcasting to these big reds and watching them explode on their topwater baits! We fished them until about 11am and lost count of all the fish we released. Great Job guys!