Viking Fleet Fishing Report

Captain Carl reports another fine afternoon of fishing on our half day boat. Once again, Black Sea Bass and Porgies made up the majority of our catch, with a few Fluke mixed in including a nice Jumbo Flatty, and a nice size Weakfish to round out the catch. The pool winner was Zachary Geft with…

Capt Dave reports very good fishing on the Viking Starship. Like the past few days we started out down the beach out of the tide and had excellent fishing with all Large & Jumbo Porgies. We tried Sea Bass fishing closer to Block Island and we picked a lot. Everyone ended up with a few…

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 We found them again! This was another beautiful day with unlimited visibility. We headed out towards where we’ve been seeing whales over the past trips and once again found a whale that we’d seen on our last two trips. This whale was first identified in 2024 off Block Island.  We stayed with this whale for some time, it was feeding at about 75 feet down and for diving 8 to 16 minutes. We decided to leave this well and had closer to shore and we ultimately encountered three more humpback whales. Of course, as in the past few weeks we had saw thousands of Wilson storm petrels in clusters of 250 to 500 just about everywhere we went. 4 humpback whales.  1 Minke whale 1000-1800 Wilson’s storm petrols 100 great shearwaters 15-25 Corey shearwater 6 Sooty…