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

Sat. morning I had the pleasure of fishing with some return clients aboard. The McGuire group really wanted to catch some Redfish, Trout, or Flounder today. The tropical storm along with a weeks worth of NE winds really had the tide in the woods around Swansboro. During low tide we were experiencing a normal high tide and high tide had all the grass covered. We moved deep into the backwaters in search of some schooling redfish. Shortly into our search we located some redfish along some flooded grass just exploding on fingermullet and shrimp. We eased up and began with a couple of explosions on a Rapala Skitter Walk which produced a 2 lb speckled trout. Then, Larry and 7yr old Jake began tossing live shrimp under popping corks to the location and were rewarded with puppydrum up to 24in. almost every other cast for an hour. We also picked up two black drum here. After the tide turned and the school moved on... We returned to scouting for some Speckled Trout. We made several stops and then found an area that just looked right. We put the power pole down and took our time working live bait along a current break. We began getting trout strikes and spent about an hour and a half to land 7 Specs from 1 to 2.5lbs along with a few bluefish, sea-mullet, and hogfish.

Later in the afternoon, with Jimmy L., his wife Dianne, and their son aboard, we scoured the area for some trout. The bite was good for a short while and we had a bunch of hook-ups managing to land 7 of them along with a few sheepshead, bluefish, and flounder. What a beautiful day today was... and fish'n was great despite the recent tropical storm.

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Capt. Jeff Cronk

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