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

After such a great trip on Sat I had high hopes for today's trip with John C. and his crew aboard. After a couple stops and no trout we switched up to chasing those redfish. The sun was still low and it was difficult to sight the fish but, we made a few blind casts onto a favorite spot and it produced a 32in red and 33in. red. With the tide and water clarity not quite where we wanted it we made a short ride to some nearshore live bottom holding some grey trout and caught our limit in less than a half hour. We made that move back to searching for reds and after about 5 minutes of looking we struck Gold... or bronze... we cornered about 500 reds and had our way with them for over an hour landing 15 or more of these upper to over slot fish. My crew had a ball on these reds but, really wanted to try their luck at the flounder bite for the last hour of our morning. We headed back toward the inlet and stopped on our first flounder hole... less than 45min. later we had boated 9 flounder with 7 keepers from 2 to 3.5lbs. In the words of Mr. T and the A-Team (haa haa)... I love it when a plan comes together!
Capt. Jeff Cronk
Fish'n4life Charters
336-558-5697

This morning I had regular client, Casey A. and his crew load up and we left around 7am. We started out the morning looking for specks and were fortunate enough to pick up a few up to 3.5lbs before heading toward Bogue Inlet to search out some shoaling redfish. About 1/2hr of searching and we located a big school of reds upwards of 1000 fish. They ranged from 24in to 34in and struck just about every Berkley Gulp bait we tossed at them before heading back inshore to try our luck on flounder before ending our morning. We spent about an hour on the flounder and landed 5 with 2 keepers about 2lbs each. Great morning! Great catch! Super job guys!
-Capt. Jeff Cronk
FISH'N4LIFE CHARTERS
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I had a trip this weekend with regular client, Tommy Mcdaniels, from VA. The morning started out well with a few trout on our first stop. We moved on as the tide progressed and eventually got on an absolutely incredible bite. We wound up with a total of 25 Speckled Trout. 21 of them ranged from 1.75 to 3lbs each and most were caught on Berkley's Tequila Gold Powerbait Shrimp. This bait is no longer produced but.... it's always been one of the best artificial shrimp for stained clear water. i just happened to find one last pack in my collection of tackle. Folks, if you like this bait.... call you local tackle shop and request it.... heck, email me and i'll compile the requests and take it to my Sponsor, Berkley, myself. I'm already trying to get it back into production. It's a top producing color.
-Capt. Jeff Cronk
Fish'n4life Charters
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September has been very productive... both charters and tournament fishing. We've had alot of rain this week but, our first afternoon out on the water and first stop produced several big redfish.
Capt. Jeff Cronk
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