Viking Fleet Fishing Report

Dolphins, whales, hammerhead shark, bald eagle, and a whole lot more   We decided to head west nearer to shore because of reports of juvenile humpbacks, and find them we did, along with a 6 year old humpbacl a bit further off shore that we’d seen in late August. A wonderful trip with nearly 120…

Capt Dave reports a good morning on the Viking Starship. We started off down the beach with a steady pick of Large and Jumbo Porgies for about 2 hours. When that ran out we anchored East of the lighthouse half way between Montauk and Block Island with a good action catching mixed sized Porgies and…

4 different cetacean species!! This season had been full of surprises, but nothing come close to what we saw at our 2nd stop of this trip. Our first stop was to observe a small group of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins, those light greyish bottlenose dolphins seen near shore in both sides of the LI since 2009. We then received a report of a whale near the Mid-Way Buoy (between Montauk and Block Island). We saw the blow from afar and the whales blow and body initially looked like a humpback whale with significant scarring.  The whale was perpendicular to us as is blew and dove, lifting its flukes out of the water. We traveled slowly towards the whale and waited about 500 yards away. That was fortuitous because the whale came up very close to us and it was clearly a…