Montauk

Captain JR reports an enjoyable afternoon onboard the Viking Star. Things started out with a pick but when tidal conditions improved we found lots of porgies, sea bass, and a few fluke. Everyone ended the trip with a nice bag of fresh fish for dinner. Congrats to our pool winner, Ewan Anderson, who caught a…

Another astonishing trip with 5 species of cetaceans, a leatherback sea turtle, ocean sunfish, and a plethors of pelagic birds. We started our trip in slight haze that burnt\ed off as we progressed. We has reports of whales to our south and off we went. We found our 1st pelagic birds as well as finback whale and Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins(Tursiops erebennus) within a few miles of Montauk Light. As we  headed further S, we continued to find pelagic birds, and whales. Finbacks (Balaenoptera physalus) in every direction including what appeared to be mom/calf pairs, squid (Illex spp.) were everywhere and the finbacks were feasting. Most shearwaters (Great, Sooty, Cory’s) were so full that they could barely take off. We were often surrounded by whales in every direction, minkes (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and finbacks mostly, but we did find 2 pairs of…

Captain Dave reports another excellent day of fishing off the Montauk Lighthouse! Today, we reeled in plenty of nice-sized Porgies and Seabass, along with some Bluefish to top off the catch. Congratulations to our pool winner, Francis Henry of Brooklyn, NY, who landed an impressive 2.3-pound Porgy!  

Captain Carl reports a SOLID night of Striped Bass fishing! Again, we saw them boiling on the surface and reading them on the bottom and we were able to catch some nice slot sized keepers using the diamond jigs. Once it got dark and we switched to Live Eels, the big moo cows came a-grazing…

Captain Carl reports a nice afternoon on the 1/2 day boat. We again saw a mixed bag of Porgies, Sea Bass, Fluke, and even a Blackfish (released)! It was another FINE day on the water! There was no pool on this afternoons trip.

Capt. Dave reports a very good day of fishing. We mostly drifted on the hard tide where we had a good pick with nice size fish being brought over the rails. We then went over by the Lighthouse and we had excellent Porgy fishing with some beautiful Seabass mixed in. The first place pool winner…

Captain Carl reports a foggy morning on our 1/2 day trip, but our anglers were having fun catching Porgies, Sea Bass, and Flukes. We will be back at it at 1PM. The fog is clearing and the seas are FLAT calm! The pool winner was Mike Daigle from Stroudburgh, PA, with a 3.2 lb Porgy.

Captain Carl reports an oddly slow night on our Bass trip. We drifted through thousands of Bass crashing and thrashing on the surface… we read them thick on the bottom too… but just couldn’t get them to bite. We did land some beauties that were WAY too big to keep…. But with all the feeding…

Capt. Dave reports a little bit of a difficult morning fighting the full moon tide. Once we got away from the tide fishing really picked up. We had mostly large and jumbo Porgies with a handful of Seabass mixed in. The first place pool winner was Havier M. from Deer Park, with a 2.6lb Porgy. The edible pool winner was Tyler C. from Edison, NJ with a 3lb Seabass.

A lot of action on this afternoon’s trip! The Pool winner was Charles Boscarino from Springs, NY with a 3.2 lb Porgy. We are only sailing from 1PM to 5PM tomorrow for the 1/2 Day trip.