Montauk

Another special day on the Viking g Starship, breaching and lunge feeding humpback whales and loads of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins We had a cool, clear, and somewhat choppy adventure on antepenultimate (3rd from last) Viking Fleet/CRESLI whale watch. On of our volunteers saw a young humpback whale swimming in the waters right near her home in Montauk town, so we knew were to look.. For most of the season, the whales were further offshore , but today, we found them close to shore. These were all juvenile humpback whales (<12 m long) and while some were feeding on sand eels in water over 65’ deep, others fed on the abundant Atlantic menhaden in shallower waters. At one point, a 35’ long (10.67 m) humpback conducted a full body breach about 35 feet off our port bow. While some were able…

Captain Dave reports decent action today. We stayed by the lighthouse due to the conditions and found steady action, though most of the fish were on the smaller side. There were plenty of short Porgies and Seabass that had to go back, but everyone managed to put some nice keepers in the cooler. We also…

Capt JR reports an EXCELLENT night of trophy Striped Bass catching onboard the Viking Starship. It was a literal Striped Bass bonanza with big beautiful trophies bending rods up and down the entire 140 feet of the boat. Drift after drift the red hot action continued through the night. Although the fish were all way…

Capt Dave G reports a slower afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite in very breezy conditions. We did manage to catch some short Fluke and Seabass, with 1 nice size keeper Fluke in the mix. There was no pool this afternoon. Angelo M had the largest fish on the boat, a 5 lb. Fluke.

Capt Dave reports a decent day on the Viking Starship. Fishing was very slow and rough all day due to wind and tide. We were able to catch many small sizes of Porgies and Sea Bass that we couldn’t put in the buckets and take home. However, Perseverance allowed some people to catch some good…

Capt Dave G reports a very good morning of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite. We had breezy conditions, but the fish were very hungry! In spite the tough drifts, we had lots of Fluke biting during the entire trip. We ended up with about a dozen keepers, plus some nice size Porgies and a big…

*Last trips of the season coming up! Sat Sept 6 – SOLD OUT!, Sun Sept 7 & Mon Sept 8 SPECTACULAR TRIP – 4 species of cetaceans! A calm, crystal clear, beautiful day. We had unlimited visibility, relatively calm seas, and were able to find whales and dolphins. We passed through several hundreds of Great and Cory’s shearwaters sitting on the surface near the Lighthouse and headed ESE towards one of our well known dolphin areas and readily found a small group. While viewing a small group of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin (6-12), we saw a faint blow  0.2 miles ahead. This was a humpback whale, a small one with horrendous propeller scars across the remnants of it’s dorsal fin – another whale hit by a vessel. This was was spending long times down, most likely feeding on the sand eels…

Capt Dave reports a decent day on the Viking Starship. We started out further to the south in the deep water and drifted working on Sea Bass and Triggerfish. We had to go through a bunch of smaller fish, but everyone got a few. We finished up the trip drifting by the lighthouse picking away…

Capt Dave reports a decent day on the Viking Starship. We started out the trip like yesterday south of the lighthouse, but with different results. The bite just wasn’t on there, so we moved further south and had a lot of Sea Bass of mixed size, Bluefish and only 1 keeper Triggerfish today. We drilled…

Capt Dave reports a great trip on the Viking Starship. We started out offshore south of Montauk looking for Sea Bass and had excellent conditions and a lot of keepers. There were small ones to pick through, but everyone managed keepers. Triggerfish were very plentiful too, we had over 30 large ones on the boat….