Tue Aug 8 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM
Capt Carl reports quite the adventure on the morning half day trip. For the first hour and a half we had torrential downpours. Those who braved the rain bent the rods with Sea Bass and Porgies. Finally the rain stopped and we had plenty of action with Fluke, Sea Bass, Porgies, Mackerel and a big…
Sun Aug 6 – Whale Watching
Patience and persistence pay off! Our tenth trip of the season had us worker harder than usual to find cetaceans, but as with our other nine trips, we succeeded! We first headed south of Montauk following up on reports of whales, but instead of whales, we found several small pods of inshore bottlenose dolphins, collectively…
Sun Aug 6 – Full Day Block Island Fluke & Sea Bass
Capt JR reports a productive day today onboard the Viking Starlite. We started at our usual haunts and found solid Sea Bass fishing with some keeper Fluke in the mix. We spent some time combing through that area and took a little ride to a newer zone and found even better Sea Bass fishing and…
Sun Aug 6 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass
Capt Dave reports an excellent day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. Overall, a very good day of fishing today. The pool winner on the boat today was from the Bronx with a 2 1/2 lb Porgy. The pool winner of today was Meiwhen Li of the Bronx, New York with a 2 3/4 lb porgy and a 5 1/2 lb fluke.
Sun Aug 6 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM
Captain Mike reports another great morning of fishing. The beautiful morning on the water came with numerous porgy and sea bass bites. Everyone is going home with a bag of fish and a smile! The pool winner of today was Bart Cardone of Lynnbrook, New York, who had landed a sizeable 4 lb fluke. Our…
Sat Aug 5– 1/2 Day Fishing PM
Capt Mike reports an exciting afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We had a high numbers of Porgies and SeaBass, some being many of our anglers first fish they’ve ever caught, which is always a great experience to share on the boat. This made for a fun filled day of fishing for many aboard…
Sat Aug 5 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass
Capt Dave reports an excellent day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. First thing this morning we set up for a drift around 5:30am and had a solid 4-hour drift with non-stop Porgy action. It was a mixed size anywhere from medium to jumbo fish, with a lot of larges. Around 10 o’clock we worked our way to the SeaBass grounds and had some solid drops with some decent size fish including a lot of Mackerell and some keeper Fluke. Overall, a very good day of fishing today. The pool winner on the boat today was Jose Martinez from the Bronx with a 2 1/2 lb Porgy. The edible pool winner went to Chester Winfield from Scarsdale, NY with 4 1/2 lb Fluke.
Sat Aug 5– 1/2 Day Fishing AM
Capt Mike reports nice morning on the water fishing on the Viking Star. This morning was a little bit on the slow side compared to the past few days, but the weather was excellent and we still managed our pick of Porgies and SeaBass. We did have a lot of Fluke coming up, but mostly…
Fri Aug 4 – 1/2 Day Fishing PM
Capt Mike reports a fun family day on the water! We Caught mixed bag of Fluke, Sea Bass Porgies. Liz Mikulik from Highland Lakes, NJ won the pool with a 4.5 lb Fluke.
Fri Aug 4 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass
Capt Dave reports very good fishing today on the Viking Starship. We fell into a great pick of Porgies around the Lighthouse, with large and jumbo sized fish biting their heads off. We spent most of day around their getting our limit of fish. In the last hour we went off to try fishing one our SeaBass wrecks, but the fishing was very slow and there were little to no bites. The pool winner today would like to remain anonymous, but had himself a jumbo 3 lb Porgy. We are definitely sailing again tomorrow (Saturday, August 5th) at 5 am on our Montauk Lighthouse Porgies & SeaBass.