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

Well, Tropical Storm Hannah passed through on Sat. and I shot out on the water today on Sunday for a few hours to do some scouting. The water is still a little cloudy but the fish are still here.... We stopped and checked on the shrimp situation and found large schools of shrimp with hundreds per cast in open waters. We kept about 100 to eat and released the rest. We then scouted out about 4 areas usually holding redfish and found redfish in all four areas. We fished strictly topwater baits and had 5 blowups and saw several more fish. Check out the size of this pig Dion landed. It was 31in. and about 11lbs. This fish has obviously survived an encounter with a gillnet as it had healing scars around its neck and its back and tail section is still mangled where crabs had been attempting to eat him while stranded in a net... Good news is we took a picture and returned him unharmed to spawn in the future.

-Capt. Jeff Cronk
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