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

Regular client, Mike J., and his family were down on Vacation in Emerald Isle this week and today we broke up a 10hr trip with the first 5hrs fishing the ocean with 3 onboard then, coming inside to switch out and pick up Mike's three young girls for some playing in the backwaters and finally, Mike and his father-in-law Bruce stepped on for some afternoon sigthfishing for Redfish on the flats. Well, the morning proved a little tough with a 3 to 5ft ground swell and a chop on top of it... but, we eased our way off the beach and found some bait. As we were letting out first Cigar Minnow out the reel went to singing and shortly after, Mike put a small King Mackerel in the ice chest. The action was steady for the next couple hours with several Mahi hooked up, a Barracuda, and many Amberjack. We also released a Cobia that was just under the 33in size limit. Later, in the backwaters with Mike's three girls, we went castnetting for shrimp, which the girls always love to do... and then, we worked some float cork rigs and let the girls fight some small black drum from 1 to 2lbs. After dropping them off with their mother, I took Mike and Bruce searching the grass flats for redfish. About 30min. into our search we found a school of about 200 redfish and followed them for about 45 min. managing to hookup with 4 from 6lbs to 15 lbs. Another great day of fishing with beautiful weather! Thanks guys!
Capt. Jeff Cronk
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