Fishing Reports

Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies & Knothead SeaBass Capt Dave reports red hot fishing early. It was mostly smaller Porgies, so we made a couple of moves a bit further offshore and found much bigger Porgies and quality Sea Bass. We also had a few fluke and all of the Mackerel you wanted. The first place…

1/2 Day Fishing – AM Capt Carl reports an excellent morning with crazy action all around the boat. We had plenty of keeper Fluke, Big Sea Bass, Porgies and a ton of giant Mackerel again! It was non-stop action and full buckets of fish. The first place pool winner was Deborah Killeen from Bronx, NY…

Sunday, July 29, 2018 4 Cetacean Species Day! Well we found them again. Finback whales, minke whales, humpback whales, and short-beaked common dolphins. The whales weren’t particularly “cooperative,” spending long times down feeding near the sea floor, but they are there to feed. We found 5 finback whales including 2 mom/calf pairs, 5 humpbacks, 2 minkes whales, and about 150 dolphins. The dolphin rode our bow wake and rode the bow wakes of some of the fin whales. Birders on board were happy to find loads of pelagic birds too. Totals: 5 finback whale 5 humpback whales 2 minke whales 150 short-beaked common dolphins 125 Cory’s shearwaters 55 Great shearwaters 20 Sooty shearwaters 4 Manx shearwaters 7 Parasitic jaegers 1 immature Northern gannet

1/2 Day Fishing – PM Capt Dave reports excellent fishing on the Viking Starship. We had really great action with Sea Bass, Porgies and Mackerel with a couple of Fluke in the mix. The first place pool winner was Michael Parker from Queens, NY with a 3.5 lb Fluke. The second place pool winner was Gina Costello from Flushing, NY with a 3.5 lb Sea Bass.

1/2 Day Fishing – AM Capt Carl reports a great morning trip with beautiful weather and great fishing! We had some big Fluke, Sea Bass, Porgies and Mackerel keeping everybody busy with bent rods all morning.The first place pool winner is Chris Ripp from Selden, NY with a 7 lb 14 oz Fluke. The second…

Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies and Knothead Sea Bass Capt Dave reports a nice day all around on the Viking Starship.  This morning we had perfect conditions around the lights and had a ton of mixed sized porgies.  We milled through lots of nice ones before moving on to do some sea bassing.  We had tons…

Half Day Fishing Trip PM Capt. Steven Jr. reports a good trip where we had a lot of action all afternoon with a mixed bag of fluke, porgies, and sea bass. The pool winner was José Flores from East Hampton New York with a 5.5 lb Fluke.

Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies and Knothead Seabass Capt. Dave reports an excellent day of fishing aboard the Viking Starship. We started off fishing for scup right by the Lighthouse where we had some nice mixed size porgies and when we went a bit further out we found some jumbos. After limiting out with porgies we went looking for seabass. We had to pick through a lot of small fish but got some really nice big seabass with everyone reaching their limits.  We We also had some nice fluke, mackerel and bluefish in the mix. The pool winner was George Andreopoulos from New Hyde Park with a 4.5 lb porgy.

Half Day Fishing AM Capt. Steven reports a good trip where we caught buckets of jumbo sea bass, fluke, porgies, and tons of mackerel. It was flat calm out and we had excellent fishing. The 1st place pool winner was Bobby Monaco from Smithtwon New York with a 6lb fluke. The 2nd place pool winner…

Striped Bass Capt Carl was at the helm of the Viking Starship tonight and reports a very disappointing struggle on the grounds. We marked plenty of fish all night long, but they seemed to be in lockjaw mode. We only landed 2 keepers for the whole boat. It was extremely frustrating reading them on the machine all night long and they just didn’t want to bite. Sometimes the night after a Full Moon this happens, and unfortunately tonight it was the case. We expect things to pick back up with the amount of fish around by our next trip on Wednesday night. Mike Deyak from Rocky Point, NY took the pool with a 31 pounder, and Madison Kolnsberg from Queens, NY took second with a 12 pounder.