Archive: 2017

Montauk Jumbo Porgies and Knothead Sea Bass Captain Dave reports the best day of the season so far! We had an excellent day of fishing today for both porgies and sea bass. It was mixed in together so we didn’t have to go searching around and spent all day picking away at a nice pile of fish. We saw mostly big fish today and everyone had their limit of both sea bass and porgies! Today’s pool winner was Raymond Brown of Amityville with a nice 3.5lb porgy.

1/2 Day Fluke AM Capt Dave G Reports that fishing was good this morning on the Viking Stariper. We had slack tide for a good part of the morning which made for a slower bite, bit we had some nice sea bass and the fluke that came up were very big. We had several fish…

Whale Watching Humpbacks! Bottlenose dolphins! Fin whales! We did it again! We are at 100% success rate so far this season! Today we had reports of fin whales offshore. As we passed the lighthouse we got a report of a whale and dolphins just 3 miles away! We found a humpback whale and about 200 inshore bottlenose dolphins- this was a 30′ humpback feeding and swimming! The dolphins and humpback were probably eating the same thing- sand eels! This juvenile humpback surprised us with a beautiful full body break about 100 feet from us! WOW! We left this humpback to search for the fin whales and found another juvenile humpback. Eventually we got to where we were last week and found a rapidly moving fin whale. We also saw an ocean sunfish and hammerhead shark during this trip. Totals: –…

Montauk Jumbo Summer Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass Captain Dave reports a slower morning of fishing aboard the Viking Starship. There was plenty of action but quite a lot of smaller fish. We gad one really good drift when the tide changed with lots of nice sized porgies and a few sea bass. We also had a handful of keeper flukes. Saylin Mendez from the Bronx was the first place pool winner with a 3lb porgy and second place went to Miguel Cordero from the Bronx with 4.5lb fluke.

Night Striped Bass Capt Carl reports a much tougher night than last night, but we did manage some Bass. The jigging part of the trip was not like the previous night…though there was tons of birds and bait, everything was scattered in a wide area and not concentrated so we only managed a couple of short bass, 1 keeper, some blues, some giant scup, and some sea bass. Once we switched over to the eels, we had to wait for a while until the flood tide started, but once it did, we started to pick away at some bigger Striped Bass. As the current got stronger, we kept picking a couple a drift and put in some extra time to catch as many as we could, but it was nowhere near what we wanted for the capacity crowd. Nick Lazar…

Full Day Fluke and Knothead Sea Bass Captain Aaron reports an okay day of fishing today aboard the Viking Stariper. It was a bit of a slower day than we saw yesterday. Everyone managed a decent catch and went home with some nice fillets. We had nice quality sea bass and fluke today. The pool winner was Ivonne Borero of NY with a nice 5.9lb fluke.

Half Day Fishing PM Capt Dave G Reports a great afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We had a plenty of keeper fluke and some giant sea bass all around the boat. It was a beautiful afternoon on the water with a great bite.  Today’s first place pool winner was Raymond Swift of Brooklyn with a nice 6.45lb fluke and in second place was Zoe Summers of NC with a nice 6.5lb fluke.

Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass Capt Dave reports a decent day fishing with a big crowd. We had limits of porgies and sea bass around the boat. We had mixed size fish early on. We moved off to catch some sea bass at the end of the trip where we had smaller sized sea bass. The first place pool winner was Cordoso Albaro from Hillside, NY with a 3 lb Porgy. Domingo Morea was the edible pool winner with a 4 1/2 lb Sea Bass.

Capt Dave G Reports a good morning of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We had slack tide for a good part of the trip but still managed a decent catch of fluke, sea bass and porgies. There were some nice size fluke that came up. The pool winner was Kyle Lennon from Wantaugh, NY with…

Night Striped Bass Capt Carl reports MUCH improved Striped Bass fishing on the Viking Starship tonight. We had much better conditions and that equals much better fishing. Diamond jigging tonight was excellent, with many keeper Striped Bass, many throwbacks, and many big gorilla blues as well! Once it got dark, we had to wait for the tide to…