Montauk

Just gets better and better!   On a comfortable day, with unlimited visibility, we were ready to find lots of cetaceans , and that we did. We had reports of dolphins “everywhere,” and whales where we’d seen them on our last, as well as closer to shore. Are assumption that the nearshore whales were juvenile humpbacks was correct. These juvenile humpback whales and dolphins were searching for and feeding on the abundant patches of Atlantic menhaden (AKA bunker). We watched as the whales fed via subsurface lunges. These were small humpbacks, probably no larger than 24 feet. Our first 4 humpbacks undertook no “surface” activity, but our 5th humpback was repeatedly flipper-slapping and surfacing lunging. Beautiful to watch.  We’re already looking forward to Wednesday’s trip!!  Join us. 300-400 Inshore bottlenose dolphins 6 humpback whales 200 Great shearwaters 10 Cory’s shearwaters…

Capt J.R. reports a decent action this morning on the Viking Star with SeaBass and Fluke being the predominant catch. We ended up with the buckets having mostly SeaBass and a few KEEPER Fluke around the boat. It was a very enjoyable trip. The first place pool winner went to Lorne Brousseau from Northport, NY…

Capt Mike reports a better afternoon of fishing today on the Viking Star. The wind died down and made for a beautiful afternoon with steady picking the entire trip. Mixed bad of big sized Porgies, SeaBass and a few keeper Fluke. Nice day on the water! The pool winner this afternoon went to Edwardo Vasquez…

Capt J.R reports a more difficult day of fishing today on the Viking Starlite. Today’s Block Island Fluke and SeaBass trip was in a word, tough. We spent a majority of the trip searching our usual hotspots and finding very little…. There was a pretty significant ground swell in addition to some very windy conditions all morning. Whatever it was, it definitely turned the bite way off. We ended the trip finding some SeaBass and Fluke action, a few nice Fluke with some knot heads. But, after some late fishing we headed home to lick our wounds. The Fluke pool winner went to Tayfun Yaizici with a 6 lb Fluke. The SeaBass pool winner went to Sebastian Jasivkiewicz with a 3 1/2 lb SeaBass. We have more Block Island Fluke and SeaBass trips coming up on the following dates: –…

Capt Dave reports excellent fishing today on the Viking Starship. Conditions today weren’t great but fishing remained very good. We started off the point this morning and fishing was great, with mixed sizes between medium and large and a few jumbos. We worked our way off to the east after loading up and had our pick of SeaBass were were on the smaller side, but we had a few nice ones in the mix. Overall a good day of fishing. We did not have a pool on the boat today, but the largest fish was around 2.8 lbs. We will be sailing tomorrow (Monday, July 31st) on our 5 am Montauk Porgies and SeaBass.

Capt Mike reports a slow start to the morning on the Viking Star, however it did pick up towards the end of the trip. We had a mixed bag today with some nice SeaBass, Porgy and a few keeper Fluke. Fishing conditions look good for this afternoon. The pool winner this morning went to Noah…

Capt Mike reports decent action on the Viking Star this afternoon. We filled buckets with Porgies and landed several nice keeper Fluke. The pool winner was again, Sharda Harripal from Brooklyn, NY with a 4 lb Fluke.

Capt Dave reports excellent fishing on the Viking Starship. Our first drop at the lighthouse was our best with all good stuff there. When we moved around we saw some smaller Porgies in the mix than we have been seeing. Off to the east Sea Bass was slower than it’s been, but everyone managed a few keepers. There are also a bunch of Mackerel around. The pool winner was Cornell Armstrong from Teaneck, NJ with a 3 lb Porgy.

Capt Mike reports a slower morning on the Viking Star with the leftover swell. We did have a mixed bag of keeper Fluke, Sea Bass and some Porgies. Kids had a lot of fun catching fish. When the Fluke bit they were quality sized. The pool winner was Sharda Harripal from Brooklyn, NY with a…

Capt Dave reports a good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. The Porgy fishing was as good it’s been lately, we had an excellent turn out with rods bent all morning and with medium to large sized Porgies and some jumbos. SeaBass fishing today was not so great, we had more throwbacks than…