Montauk

Capt Dave G reports a good afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite. We had breezy conditions which made fishing a bit more difficult. However, we worked hard and put together a nice catch of Porgies, Fluke, Sea Bass and Bluefish. The pool winner was Russell Burghard from Melville, NY with a 3.4 lb Sea…

Capt. Dave reports a fantastic start this morning with very good Porgy fishing. We dropped the anchor a couple times and were very successful at each drop. We then went to do some Seabass fishing and the bite was really good however, there were a lot of shorts that needed to be thrown back. All in all it was a very good trip and everyone went home with a nice catch. The pool winner was Jerry Benitez from Queens, NY with a 3.7 lb Porgy.

Capt Dave G reports a good morning of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite. We had a lot of tide left over from the full moon, and the fish were active. We had fast drifts and covered a lot of ground. We ended up with a nice catch of keeper Fluke, Porgies, some big Sea Bass…

Another exceptional trip for Viking/CRESLI is in the books! With sunny skies, a refreshing breeze, and incredible visibility, it was already a great trip when we encountered a small pod of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins close to shore. We spent some time with them, but wanted to move on with reports of humpbacks to our south. After spotting a couple of blows and seeing flukes (of diving whales) at the surface, we knew we found at least two humpbacks, but the surprise was on us as they suddenly appeared at the surface open-mouth feeding on the rich bait detected below. These whales were bubble-net feeding, a coordinated effort where a circular (spiral) ring of bubbles is created to confuse and corral small schooling fish such as sand eels, and they were doing it again and again, all around us as the…

Captain Mike Ricker reports a great fishing on the Viking Star. We had a steady picking all afternoon. Keepers were hard to come by. We still managed to fill some buckets with nice Sea Bass and Porgies.  We were also able to catch a few Flukes to top off the afternoon. Congratulations to our pool…

Capt Dave reports a good day on the Viking Starship. Fishing  started slowly but improved mid-morning near the Lighthouse. We were able to catch several sizes of Porgies. We can also put some Sea Bass and Bluefish in our buckets. The pool winner was Jose Hernandez from Manhattan, NY with a 3.3 lb Porgy and a 5.6 lb Fluke.

Captain Mike Ricker reports a fishing trip full of action. We couldn’t escape the Porgies… they were EVERYWHERE! We also had some very nice-sized Sea Bass bending the rods. And to top it all off we caught some KEEPER Flukes. Congratulations to our pool winner, Douglas Fleisher, from Hoboken, NJ, who caught a 4.6 lb…

Capt Carl reports a beautiful night on the water with a giant Full Moon coupled with some Giant Striped Bass! Action was by no means hot and heavy, but the fish we did catch were real Sea Monsters! Again, all the Striped Bass we caught were WAYYYY over the slot limit size, and we also…

Capt Mike reports that the bite tapered off a bit from this morning.  We had slower but pretty steady action all trip.   We had some nice Seabass and Porgies in the buckets with a couple keeper Fluke to add.  Nice afternoon for kids and families.

Capt Dave reports a good trip on the Viking Starship. We had to hide from the full moon tide this morning, so we anchored way down the beach out of the tide. There were very nice size Porgies there. When it got slow we headed back to the lighthouse and picked away at Porgies and found some Fluke and a few Triggerfish. The first place pool winner was one of our regulars Mr. Park with a 3.5 lb Porgy. The edible pool winner was Nelson Estrada with a 6 lb Fluke.