Thurs July 12
Half Day Fishing AM Capt. Joe reports a good trip aboard the Viking Star. There was a lot of action on the flukes. We caught a lot of porgies and a few keeper sea bass and even one striped bass! It was a great trip action wise and the rods were bending all afternoon. The…
Wed July 11
1/2 Day Fishing PM Captain Joe reports a slow start to fishing aboard the Viking Star. We started off against the tide and it was a bit windy but once the tide change and the winds died down fishing was very good. We got a nice mixed bag of fluke porgies and seabass. The pool winner was Anthony Fideleo from Yonkers NY with a nice 4.6 fluke!
Wed July 11
Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies & Knothead SeaBass Capt Dave reports a slower day due to the east wind. The Porgy fishing was tough with mostly smaller fish although there was a lot of action. The SeaBass fishing was great with everyone retaining their limit. Cornell Armstrong from Teaneck, NJ had a really nice SeaBass over…
Wed July 11
1/2 Day Fishing – AM Captain Dave G reports a good morning of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We had breezy conditions but put together a nice catch of Fluke, Sea Bass and Porgies. Galley master Kevin Klaus caught a nice 7 lb fluke. The pool winner was Caesar Trinidad of Floral Park with a…
Tues July 10
1/2 Day Fishing PM Captain Joe reports a great day of fishing aboard the Viking Star. There was lots of action all afternoon! We had lots of porgies and seabass and a handful of fluke. Today’s pool winner was Hunter Neifert from Westend, NC with a 3.5lb fluke and second place went to Jack McGillick…
Tues July 10
Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies & Knothead Seabass Captain Dave reports an excellent morning of porgy fishing aboard the Viking Starship this morning. We had lots of nice mixed size porgies and seabass fishing was decent too. One side of the boat had lots of nice sized seabass but the other side had to pick through…
Tue July 10
1/2 Day Fishing AM Capt Dave G reports a very good morning of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We had pleasant breezy conditions and a real nice drift and as a result we caught lots of nice size sea bass, big porgies and some fluke. Everyone went home with a nice bag of filets. The…
Mon July 9
1/2 Day Fishing – PM Capt Joe reports quality fish aboard the Viking Star this afternoon. The bite was a bit picky with wind against tide, but we sat on a piece and had a lot of action. We had a bunch of beautiful SeaBass and some Fluke. The pool winner was Peter Benis from Montauk, NY with a 5 lb Fluke.
Tue July 10
Sunday July 8 3 Species of Whale, 1 Species of Dolphin, and 11 species of Pelagic and Coastal Birds! What an amazing day on the water. We had reports of whales from Saturday, but we had friends out there and said they weren’t seeing anything. With no information except our 30 year knowledge of whale feeding areas near Montauk, Captain Dave and Naturalist Dr. Artie Kopelman formulated a plan and headed to an area that has almost always has been productive. Within an hour of passing Montauk Light, we had our first minke whale. Like other minkes, this one was elusive. As we were waiting for the minke to resurface, we saw the blows from a larger whale about 1.5 nautical miles (nm) away. Off we headed to find our second species – humpback whale. The humpback breached about 1 nm ahead…
Mon July 9
Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies & Knothead Seabass Capt Dave reports a good day of porgy fishing on the Viking Starship. We loaded up on porgies around the lighthouse this morning then headed off shore to look for sea bass. We had nonstop action with lots of smalls in the mix however the keepers were all…