Thurs Aug 2
Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies & Knothead Seabass Captain Dave reports an excellent day of fishing aboard the Viking Starship. We started off by the lighthouse and found some really nice scup and then we went further out looking for seabass. Here we found a good mix of nice size porgies and seabass. The pool winner…
Thurs Aug 2
Half Day Fishing AM Trip Capt Dave G reports a decent morning of fishing today aboard the Viking Star in breezy conditions. We picked away at the fluke sea bass and porgies. We ended up with a nice catch. The 1st place pool winner was Josh Board from Canton Ohio with a 5.2lb fluke. We…
Wed Aug 1
1/2 Day Fishing – PM Capt Joe reports great action on the Viking Star this afternoon. We had a handful of keeper Fluke and a ton of action with Seabass, Porgies and Mackerel. The first place pool winner was Stephen Herstmann from Medford, NY with a 6 lb Fluke. The second place pool winner was…
Wed Aug 1
Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies & Knothead SeaBass Capt Dave reports excellent fishing by the lighthouse on the Viking Starship. We had much better sized Porgies than we have been seeing the past few days and there were some SeaBass in the mix. After that we anchored between tides and found a few really big SeaBass…
Wed Aug 1
7/29-7/31 John Viol Codfest Capt Steven Sr reports an all out phenomenal offshore trip from the beginning to the end. We started on the Cod Grounds and shortly found quality Cod in the 7 to 12 lb class with a lot of gaffers. We quickly found a short 39″ Halibut that we released unharmed. At…
Tue July 31
1/2 Day Fishing AM Captain Dave reports a mixed afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Stariper. We had some nice porgies and seabass but only a handful of keeper fluke. There was a lot of action all afternoon but a lot of it was shorts. We were in a pretty good fishing spot early on…
Tue July 31
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…
Tue July 31
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…
Tue July 31
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
Mon July 30
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.