Montauk

Capt. Dave reports a good day of fishing despite the rough conditions. We were able to bring in a great catch of Porgies, ranging from med-larg. We went offshore and anchored up to go for Sea Bass. While there we had plenty of action with a good pick of small to med. size Sea Bass. Everyone went home with their limit or close to it, with plenty of Porgies, Sea Bass, and some Mackerel. The pool winner was Vasilios Papagiannis from High Land Park, NY, with a 3.5 lb Porgy.

Breaching, lob-tailing, flipper slapping humpback and more! Our 9th trip of 2020 was difficult at first, but ultimately it did not disappoint. Just as in the past few trips, a small humpback would blow and dive, with dive times over 10 minutes long. We stayed with this whale and a few inshore bottlenose dolphins but decided to head off and search elsewhere. It took a bit but just before 4PM in the distance (2 nautical miles) we saw a humpback lob-tailing (slamming its tail on the water) over and over again. We reached it and it continued lob-tailing, the whale eventually rolling onto its back and began flipper slapping, also repeatedly. In a short while, it began to breach repeatedly, interspersed with flipper slapping and logging (resting). Wow, what a wonderfully array of humpback behaviors to see. This whale in…

Capt Chris reports extremely windy conditions on the Viking Star. We were forced to fish the North areas. Everyone worked hard to scrape together some nice Seabass and a some Porgies, but mostly shorts. The first place pool winner was Michael Nadeau from Rocky Point, NY with a 3 lb SeaBass. The second place pool winner was Peter Franzeskos from Chappaqua, NY with a 2.8 lb SeaBass.

Capt Dave reports a good day on the Viking Star despite the tough conditions. We first went to the SeaBass grounds and had great action. There were a lot of smalls, but we caught plenty of keepers with some Porgies mixed in. We finished up at the lighthouse and picked away at nice Large Porgies with some Jumbos mixed in. All in all it was a good day. The pool winner was Ron Lawyer with a 2 3/4 lb Porgy.

Capt Chris reports a good trip this morning on the Viking Star. We had mainly Sea Bass as the weather prevented us from staying off the point. We ground it out to the North and eventually put a catch together of Sea Bass and Porgies and a few short Fluke were seen as well. There was no pool today.

Capt JR reports another great trip this afternoon on the Viking Star. All anglers had full buckets of Sea Bass and Porgies. We did capture a few really nice fluke as well.

Capt Dave reports great fishing on the Viking Starship. We started off down the beach to get out of the tide and found Large Porgies. When the tide eased we headed to the lighthouse and had a mix of Porgies and SeaBass along with 1/2 dozen keeper Fluke and shorts. We then went east for SeaBass and got in a quick drift finding all of the SeaBass we needed as well as more Large Porgies and 2 Cod. The pool winner was Tony Park from Flushing, Queens with a 3 lb Porgy.

Capt JR reports extremely good fishing this morning on the Viking Star. Everyone had buckets of giant Sea Bass and Porgies. It was action packed!! The pool winner was 11 year old Phoenix Forbes from Montauk with a 4.9 lb SeaBass.

Capt JR reports an excellent trip this afternoon. We had tons of action from start to finish. We had Sea Bass, Porgies, and Fluke coming over the rail all trip. We also landed two very nice trigger fish. Big bags of meat going off the boat. The pool winner was Jonathan Swanson from Bohemia, NY with a 5lb Fluke.

Capt Dave reports an excellent trip on the Viking Starship. We had to do a couple of drops due to windy conditions, but brought aboard plenty of medium to large Porgies. When we went for Sea Bass the results were not as good as they have been. A lot of shorts, but again some nice larger Porgies were in the mix. Anglers brought in some nice keeper Fluke as well. Victor Suera of Brentwood, NY won the first place pool with a 2 3/4 lb Porgy and Wendell Buchanan of Teaneck,NJ won the edible pool with a 6 lb Fluke. NYS Marine Regulations change September 1st. Porgy bag increases from 30 to 50 fish through October 31st and Sea Bass increases to 7 fish until Dec 31st.