Montauk

Unfortunately, the Montauk Spring Jumbo Porgy Trip for Sunday May, 14th at 4am is cancelled due to the impending Nor’Easter.

Montauk Jumbo Porgies Capt Dave reports an excellent morning bite on the Viking Star. After that it got a little picky, but it was a slow and steady bite. We had nice sized porgies along with some bluefish. We also threw back some sea bass, blackfish and fluke. The pool winner was Mike Wallen from…

Capt Dave reports a much better day on the Viking Stariper. It was Good-Good! We had a slow start, but then had a good pick of mixed sized porgies until about 10am. We also had a handful of bluefish and a couple of sea bass that were returned unharmed.

Captain Steven’s 2 Day Deep Water Exploratory Trip – 5/8 to 5/11 – Viking Starship Capt Steven Sr reports that we started out slow with the moon tide from the east and the wind from the south where the drift was not favorable. We found fish here and there with some good drifts and some…

Montauk Spring Jumbo Porgies Capt Dave reports better action today on the Viking Star.  Again today we took a long ride into the bay where we had a slow and steady bite.  All day we had lite finicky bites with some nice sized fish in the mix.  Today’s first place pool winner Al Hauck of…

Montauk Spring Jumbo Porgies Capt Dave reports a very slow day of fishing aboard the Viking Star.  We covered a lot of ground and searched all day but unfortunately we only caught a couple dozen porgies.  The rough conditions and dirty water definitely seemed to have an affect on the bite today.  With weather conditions…

Montauk Spring Jumbo Porgies Capt Dave reports a pretty good day for an early start to Porgy Season! It was a finicky bite due to the less than ideal conditions. The weather and east wind affected the catch today. There were a handful of nice sized Jumbo porgies. We are happy to get the first day in and are hoping for better conditions tomorrow. The pool winner was Alberto Rivera from Bronx, NY with a 4.1 lb porgy.

5/5 George’s Bank Cod Unfortunately the George’s Bank Cod trip scheduled for 7PM Friday May, 5th is cancelled due to weather!!   Thursday Morning The Viking Boys went on a recon mission and we are happy to report they found exactly what they were looking for! LOADS of Giant Scup. We will be sailing daily…

2 Day Deep Deep Hake/Tile Capt Steven Sr reports that Mother Nature did it again and gave us terrible weather for 95% of the trip. We had  a big Big ground swell from the east and 20 knots of wind from the north, with rain. Not Nice! We put our time in and had a…

2017 Fluke Regulations Set From The Fisherman: With Option 5 of the fluke management plan approved by ASMFC’s technical committee and signed off on by NOAA Tuesday, New York’s Department of Conservation is proceeding with emergency regulations to adopt the approved measures. The season will remain the same as last year – May 17 to September 21 – but the size limit will increase one inch to 19 inches and the bag limit will drop from five fish to three.