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

Capt. Mike Taylor, Ryan Taylor, and Myself, Capt. Jeff Cronk.... hit the ocean on Sunday scouting everything out and filming for the upcoming episode of Carolina Fishing TV. Well, we went jigging and got into an awsome Seabass Bite as well as a very good late April Flounder Bite! Check out the action this coming Saturday at 8am on Fox 26 in N. Mrytle Beach, Southport, Wilmington, and Fayetteville... also on Fox 8, 14 from Sneadsferry to Greenville and inland to Rocky Mount and Kinston. The bonito are showing up... the Spanish WILL be here by this upcoming Sat. off Bogue Inlet along with the Kings quickly behind. There are plenty of bottomfish out there too! Call to reserve your trip today! Don't wait... dates for May are going fast.
Capt. Jeff Cronk 252-764-2174
Capt. Mike Taylor 252-725-2623

This afternoon I had the Taylor Crew onboard from Odessa, Washington. Kathy had lived here for a few years a while back and had never had the chance to fish the waters... So, we introduced her to some non-stop April bluefish action in the backwaters. They had a ball with the light tackle and blues up to 2.5lbs.... Surprisingly, after sightingseeing a few rays in the shallows... and joking about how hard it was to fight one of these critters... Kathy had one smoke her drag while we were trolling some shallow diving lures for blues.... She fought it for a while and managed to land the 25lb Ray on 10lb test Berkley Fireline... This is some tough line folks! We even managed to find a pod of Porpoises that the group was hoping to photograph... Very enjoyable afternoon on the water! See you guys again soon.
Capt. Jeff

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-Capt. Jeff Cronk

4/17/09 I had Craig C., Kevin C., and Michael H. onboard this morning. The wind was still kicking pretty good, making the backwaters tough to fish so, we eased out along the beach on some hard bottom and spent a few hours with non-stop action jigging bottomfish. We culled through hundreds of fish and kept a mess of Seabass, bluefish, and hogfish. The wind eased up a little so we changed things up a little and moved into the backwaters hoping for some Redfish or Speckled Trout. First spot was a negative.... second spot was the ticket. We got into a good trout bite in 5 to 10ft of water that lasted just over an hour until the tide stopped. We hooked up with about 13 specs, had a couple pull the hooks on the way to the net, and tossed back a couple small ones. We wound up keeping 8 trout with the largest at 3lbs. Great job guys...! See ya again soon.
Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE

Mike and I have been fishing the river pretty hard this week. The average day consists of a couple Striper, half a dozen to a dozen trout from 1.5 to 5lbs, a keeper flounder or two, and some puppy drum. Call and Reserve your dates asap to get your desired date. Thanks for your support!
Capt. Jeff Cronk
Capt. Mike Taylor

What an absolutely beautiful Day today... after the Sat. Winds passed... this Sunday morning was gorgeous! We had about 3hrs this morning without a breeze. I left Dudley's with John Curr's group attempting to locate some redfish in the shallow backwater flats. It took us a couple of hours to find a good school of backwater redfish today but, we lucked out and spent several hours catching and releasing reds from 22in. to 25in. We boated about 18 reds and had another 5 or 6 pull the hooks. These were beautiful bronze backs. John landed one redfish that had 60 Non-connected spots with 34 on one side and and 24 on the other. They were striking just about any Gulp Bait we tossed.
Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS
252-764-2174
jcronk@ec.rr.com

Hey Everyone. Weeee're Baaaack! Our new episodes of Carolina Fishing TV begin Airing this weekend, Sat. April 4th on Fox 26 in the Wilmington Network Area at 8:30am, on Fox 8 at 9:30am Sunday along the Crystal Coast, and on Fox 14 around the Greenville Viewing area. If you prefer you can check out the show online each week at www.carolinafishingtv.com below is a link to the first show of the season... No log in... no cost... watch and enjoy!
Click the link below to watch our March Surf Fishing for Redfish!

http://www.carolinafishingtv.com/New_Episode.html

Thanks and enjoy,
Capt. Jeff Cronk