Montauk

Captain Mike Ricker reports that despite the windy conditions, our crew still found a few places to drift with good numbers of jumbo porgies and giant sea bass. We had many short flukes towards the end and a couple of keepers. Our pool winner today was Maris Perez from East Northport, NY, with a 4-pound…

Once again, we headed out to the area where we have been seeing whales for several weeks. We found them again! 10-12 humpback whales, including moms and calves. While we are still working on identifying some of the humpbacks, we found several that we’ve seen since early July. On this trip, the calves and moms were often breaching, flipper slapping, chin slapping. All of those behaviors serve many purposes, but predominately, are used to send non-vocal communication. Another great trip on the ocean, with about 1 minute of light rain.  We now have approximately 117 identified humpback whales off Montauk this summer.  Our best season ever, and the best anyone can remember since 1987. Join us!  All pertinent laws and guidelines were followed. Photos were taken from a distance using a telephoto lens. Some photos have been cropped Photos will…

Captain JR reports a windy morning of fishing onboard the Viking Star. Despite the conditions we found some shelter and had an enjoyable morning of catching SeaBass, Porgies and Fluke. We even boated a few nice KEEPER Fluke to round out the catch. Definitely not a bad morning.The pool winner was Gavin Latini from Plainview,…

Capt Carl reports that the Blue Super Moon provided us some hungry Super-Sized Striped Bass and Gorilla Blues! They bit well for the entire trip and kept all our anglers busy. The pool winner was Albert Osterman from Yonkers, NY with a 13 lb Bluefish.

Captain Carl reports plenty of rod bending action and fun this afternoon on the Viking Starlite! Our awesome anglers enjoyed catching fish all afternoon with plenty of porgies and sea bass making it into their buckets! The Fluke bite was definitely still off, but everyone had a good time and fresh fish to go home…

Capt Dave reports a pretty decent day of fishing on the Viking Starship. We ran offshore first thing this morning to get out of the dirty water that the tropical storm brought in and we had a slow and steady pick of both Porgies and SeaBass. They were not as big as they were yesterday…

Capt Carl reports an OK morning trip on the Viking Starlite. It started off a little slow with the left over ground swell from Hurricane Ernesto, but by the trips end, conditions improved as well as the fishing. Everyone went home with Sea Bass and Porgies! We did have some Flukes as well, but no…

With only one month left in our season, we were eager to get out and find the whales we have had such success in finding on previous trips. We headed approximately twelve miles south where we came upon three humpback whales which at first appeared to be logging (resting) at the surface. In fact, they were traveling and coming up to breathe roughly every 30 seconds. We kept up with the whales, coming upon 6-8 additional individuals in an area that they were headed towards. Here the whales were actively diving, likely feeding on the prey that was detected throughout the water column. Two breaches close to the vessel delighted passengers and numerous close approaches by associated pairs, one mom and calf pair, and solo calves maintained the excitement. More blows in the distance brought the total number of humpbacks…

Capt Steven Sr. reports a much improved afternoon of fishing on the Viking Star. At the start of our trip we had a pretty good Fluke bite, from shorts to keepers and even some larger sized fish, we had to pick through the Sea Robin to get them, but they were definitely biting. As the…

The whales are still around!!   We headed out with a full boat of passengers and crew. The visibility was excellent once we were a bit offshore, although all was hazy due to the Canadian Wildfire smoke. We found our first whales off in the distance via looking for blows and seeing multiple breaches ahead…