Thurs July 13 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Sea Bass
Capt Dave reports a difficult day of fishing today on the Viking Star. Conditions never seemed to be right today with wind fighting against tide. We had a brief moment that we anchored up and fell into better conditions and the fishing was very well, where we got the bulk of our fish for the…
Wed July 12- 1/2 Day Fishing PM
Capt Dave G reports a slow afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite. We started out the strong on our first drift, but the bite seemed to significantly die out as the afternoon carried on. We caught a few keeper fluke amongst the throwbacks as well as some sea bass, and some porgies. The pool…
Wed July 12 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Sea Bass
Capt Dave reports an excellent day of fishing today on the Viking Star. Local fishing this morning was great, we had non-stop action for about 2 hours with mostly large sized Porgies. after loading up on Porgies we worked our way east for our catch of Seabass, we had to pick our way through a…
Wed July 12 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM
Capt Dave G reports a good morning of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite. We had several nice drifts with a nice pick of quality fish. We ended up with a mixed bag of keeper fluke, very nice size sea bass and a mess of porgies. The first place pool winner was James Brancato from Brooklyn, NY with a 6.5 lb Fluke. The second place pool winner was Eric Van de Bovenkamp from Vero Beach, FL with a 4.2 lb Fluke.
Tue July 11 – 1/2 Day Fishing PM
Capt Dave G reports a good afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We had a nice catch of Scup with some nice size Blues mixed in. There was no pool on the boat for this trip.
Tue July 11 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM
Capt Dave G reports a slow morning of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We ended up with a mixed bag of Fluke, Sea Bass and Porgies, along with a jumbo Bluefish. The first place pool winner was David Bilski from Mt. Sini, NY with a 4 lb Fluke. The second place pool winner was Grayson…
Mon July 10 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM
Capt Dave G reports a good afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We had nice conditions after the morning storms. We fished a few spots and ended up with a decent catch of keeper fluke, a couple nice size sea bass and some porgies. The pool winner was Joe D’Angelo from Smithtown, NY with…
Mon July 10 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Sea Bass
Capt Dave reports a decent day of fishing on the Viking Starlite despite the poor weather this morning. We started off the morning close to the Lighthouse and had some pretty good Porgy fishing, as the day carried on and the weather lightened we worked our way offshore. The Seabass grounds brought some pretty decent fishing with some medium sized SeaBass, large Porgies, a couple Blue fish, and a keeper Fluke. We did not do a pool on the boat today.
Sun July 9 – Whale Watching
Fourth cetacean species in only three trips! Today’s whale watch was an exercise in patience. Reports of bottlenose dolphins brought us southwest in search of these dynamic cetaceans. Despite abundant prey just below the surface for much of our transit, no dolphins were found. We passed through numerous patches of sargassum, hoping to spot a turtle or two, but no turtles were found. Occasional sightings of Great shearwaters entertained us while searching for life at the surface. We headed into deeper water, keeping dry from the soaking rains pounding the mainland. At last, a blow and fin were spotted and investigated, revealing a fin whale, our fourth cetacean species in only our third trip of the season! The fin whale appeared to be feeding, spending short intervals underwater and surfacing around our vessel. While watching this whale, a second…
Sun July 9 – 1/2 Day Fishing PM
Capt Mike reports a nice mixed bag selection fishing this afternoon on the Viking Star. There was some jumbo Seabass, Porgies, and a good numbers of keeper Fluke on the boat this evening. The Fluke definitely stole the show with one pushing 8 lbs, we have been seeing an increase in the size of the…