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

I had the pleasure of fishing with regular clients Judge Joe Craig and Pat Meisky this morning. We had perfect conditions for locating redfish. Joe kicked back with his flyrod in hand this morning waiting patiently for Pat and myself to locate the fish with our topwater baits... first stop we found a small school of a dozen of so that had tight lips... they would'nt eat anything... regardless of our bag of tricks... if i didn't know any better i would have thought i was casting to a school of 5 to 10lb mullet! Anyway, second spot and we hit gold... or bronze that is! We found a school of about 100 fish and tracked them as they worked their way out of a creek and toward the inlet. We wound up landing about 8 reds off this school and Joe managed to land his largest redfish to date on the fly at 25in. and 6.25lbs. We lost track of these fish and moved on to try several more locations... Our last stop was sweet... we found a good school of small, rat reds from 16 to 22in. along some grassy bottom and worked them hard for about an hour using berkley gulp pogies as well as topwater baits. We released about a dozen from this school and made our way back to the dock around just before noon. Great morning on the water with some great fishermen! Thanks guys! See ya tommorrow afternoon!




-capt. jeff cronk
FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS
252-764-2174
336-558-5697

Mike and his crew worked offshore this morning and had a ball battling big AJ's on spinning tackle along with some grouper, seabass, and some other bottomfish.
capt. mike taylor
TAYLOR-MADE CHARTERS
252-725-2623