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

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Capt. Mike Taylor and myself went into the tournament expecting a tough day of fishing with just a few fish. Prefishing didn't offer up any good spots, just some scattered fish in a couple locations. The weather wasn't going to make it any easier. But, we stuck with our crazy game plan and we wound up on some fish... wound up catching about 20 Redfish ranging from 24in. to 30in. and were able bring a 26 3/4in and 26 15/16in fish to the scales. Unfortunately, our larger fish died from a deep hookset so, we weren't able to cull him... we had to take a 1/2lb deduction on our aggregate weight and didn't expect to place well.... to our suprise we still had first place by just over a pound! A bad weather day with a great turnout! Team Crystal Coast Graphics/ NC Charterfishing earned first place in the main event, the Ranger Cup Award, first place TWT Aggregate, and 2nd place TWT big fish! Mike and I would like to thank our sponsors for their support. A big thanks to Chris Ulmer (Crystal Coast Graphics), Ron Enslen of Ranger Boats, Yamaha Outboards, Collin's Inc., Dudley's Marina, and definately our families for putting up with our fishing so much!

I left Dudley's this afternoon just after 3pm with the owners of Crystal Coast Pools and Spas onboard for a variety of inshore/backwater fishing all packed in a 4hr trip! Opi, Elizabeth, and Dean got an ear full today as I've been known to talk too much sometimes... (bad gift inherited from mom) Anyway, we had fun with some Redfish on our first stop working a shallow grass flat... even boated two nice flounder in the same area. We made a quick move to take advantage of a rising tide to try for some speckled trout... but the water was mucky and all we picked up were two small specs. So as we were passing the inlet...we noticed how calm it was... with an hour and a half left in our trip we decided to go on out and hit a nearshore ledge for flounder. We worked Berkley Gulp Baits on Bucktails and with about 45min. of fishing were able to land 10 flounder and kept 4 nice fish up to 2lbs before heading back to the dock around 7pm! Great job today guys!
Capt. Jeff Cronk
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CrystalCoastGraphics
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Lowrance Electronics
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Hey folks, Stay Tuned to Carolina Fishing TV ! We just shot our newest episode out of Beaufort Inlet. It was non-stop light tackle action on Spanish Mackerel, Albacore, Bluefish, and to top it off we went ahead and got on one of our favorite spots and chummed up some big, nasty sharks... hooked them up and slung them in the boat for some purrrty photos. Here's a couple of Snap shots from the day! It was Capt Mike Taylor, Capt. Rob Koraly, and myself (Capt. Jeff Cronk) onboard.
Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS- WWW.NCCHARTERFISHING.COM
Carolina Fishing TV Co-Host- WWW.CAROLINAFISHINGTV.COM
252-764-2174 OR 336-558-5697
JCRONK@EC.RR.COM
Special Thanks to my SPONSORS
CrystalCoastGraphics
Ranger Boats
Collin's Inc.
Lowrance Electronics
Pure Fishing
SeaLake Maps

9/12/09 Morning Trip- With Tom Page and crew onboard this morning and some very purrrty weather... we filled up the livewell with baits and busted through the inlet wide open!!! We stopped on our first spot in hopes of some of those 3 to 6lb Spanish Mackerel... and the first thing to hit the baits was a Hound fish. We almost let but about 20 min. into it we hooked up a 4lb Spanish on our light spin tackle... so, we hung out and as the morning progressed, so did the bite. We had about 30 knockdowns and boated 13 Spanish from 3.5 to 5.5lbs! We made a couple of quick pit stops and landed 6 flounder, keeping three with the largest at 4lbs! Super job folks!




Afternoon Trip-- 12:30pm and I was off on the 2nd trip of the day. Bill Stocks and his crew wanted to focus on the backwaters. Our first stop got us hooked up with a couple of nice Redfish... then, the tide rose over everything! We made a few stops but our fish were way back into the deep grass. We persisted and were able to land a couple more reds before we headed back to the dock around 4:30pm

Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS- WWW.NCCHARTERFISHING.COM
Carolina Fishing TV Co-Host- WWW.CAROLINAFISHINGTV.COM
252-764-2174 OR 336-558-5697
JCRONK@EC.RR.COM
Special Thanks to my SPONSORS
CrystalCoastGraphics
Ranger Boats
Collin's Inc.
Lowrance Electronics
Pure Fishing
SeaLake Maps

After an incredible cookout in honor of good friend Billy G. My Buddy Dion (The Gourmet Chef)and I decided to hit the water for a few hours Sunday morning. Dion, Landen, Billy's Father and myself got our grub on at Yana's 50's Cafe at 6:30am and stepped on the boat at Dudley's at 7:30am. We just went with the flow today structuring our morning based on the wind and tide. We intened on going out the inlet but... the NE was already strong so, we tied on some Gulp Alive Shrimp and Pogies and hit the marshes for some Reds. It turned out to be an awsome day. We caught reds on jigheads and topwater baits. We probably landed about a dozen reds and missed another half a dozen that pulled the hooks. We also picked up a 1.5lb Whiting, 2lb Speckled Trout, and a 1.5lb Flounder while hunting Reds. Great Job Today Everyone!







Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE
252-764-2174
336-558-5697
jcronk@ec.rr.com

This morning I left the dock with Regular Clients Rob and Wes aboard along with their better halves. The women started out smoking us with the flounder bite... They had the first, biggest, and the numbers.... Then Rob and Wes pulled their weight and both put a 3.5 to 4lb Flounder in the boat! The action continued as we worked different spots. We finished up the day about 5miles off the beach and wound up with about 60 Flounder total and were able to keep 18 from 1.5 to 4lbs... We had another 5 good keepers pull the hooks before the net. Great Job today Ladies! Oh, you to guys!











Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE
252-764-2174
336-558-5697

Capt.Mike Taylor
Taylor-Made Charters
252-725-2623

I had Tim his son Tim Jr. and brother Brian all the way from N.J. onboard for a 4 hour trip. We were targeting redfish using carolina rigged finger mullet,cheating
I know. But we had a falling tide and a spooky school of fish. We had a good afternoon landing over a dozen reds ranging from 25 to 32 inches.






















Capt. Mike Taylor
Taylor-Made Charters
252-725-2623

I had Jimmy B. and two friends Mitch and Pat onboard recently. We were fishing for flounder in the ocean using 2 ounce jigs tipped with 4in. gulps. Jimmy and Pat had the hot rods, both landing a 4 and 5 pound fish. We wound up with 13 keepers with 5 over 4 pounds.







Capt. Mike Taylor
Taylor-Made Charters
252-725-2623