Sunday, April 20, 2008
4/18 and 4/19/08 Trout, Reds, Flounder, Striper!
Well, first of all... sorry for no photos folks... camera is in limbo...
4/18 4hr afternoon trip - Well, we went out this afternoon looking for redfish and trout. First stop and we found a bunch of speckled trout but these weren't the bigger fish we've been catching lately. All of them were 12 to 15in. so after landing a handful we opted to move on and try and put Chris's group on some redfish. The second place we moved into we found a school of about 100 slot-sized redfish. We stayed and played with them for a while and then moved on and found some big fish. We had three monsters well over the slot hooked up on Topwater baits... great stuff... we're seeing a lot of reds moving in from the surf to the backwaters...
4/19 8hr Trip into the Neuse. Well, with Eric C. and his group aboard we went looking some bigger trout. Beautiful day... lots of boats about... but no one really catching too well. The bite happened right at daybreak for just a short while... then the winds picked up and made it difficult to fish those light baits... We had a slow day but managed to land 7 Speckled Trout with the largest at 2.75lbs along with 4 redfish, a nice 20in. Striper, 1 flounder, and a few Alligator Gars to test the tackle... great job guys!
Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS of Swansboro
jcronk@ec.rr.com
252-764-2174
336-558-5697
4/18 4hr afternoon trip - Well, we went out this afternoon looking for redfish and trout. First stop and we found a bunch of speckled trout but these weren't the bigger fish we've been catching lately. All of them were 12 to 15in. so after landing a handful we opted to move on and try and put Chris's group on some redfish. The second place we moved into we found a school of about 100 slot-sized redfish. We stayed and played with them for a while and then moved on and found some big fish. We had three monsters well over the slot hooked up on Topwater baits... great stuff... we're seeing a lot of reds moving in from the surf to the backwaters...
4/19 8hr Trip into the Neuse. Well, with Eric C. and his group aboard we went looking some bigger trout. Beautiful day... lots of boats about... but no one really catching too well. The bite happened right at daybreak for just a short while... then the winds picked up and made it difficult to fish those light baits... We had a slow day but managed to land 7 Speckled Trout with the largest at 2.75lbs along with 4 redfish, a nice 20in. Striper, 1 flounder, and a few Alligator Gars to test the tackle... great job guys!
Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS of Swansboro
jcronk@ec.rr.com
252-764-2174
336-558-5697
