Montauk

Capt Dave reports that fishing was a bit of a slower start, but we had nice fish. We had Larges and Jumbos fishing down the beach at slack tide. At the lighthouse it was good slow drifting once the tide got going – lots of double headers. Also catching a hand full of Sea Bass,…

Another successful trip: humpback and minke whales! We couldn’t ask for better conditions! A relatively calm day at sea with unlimited visibility made searching for blows easier than most days. Although it took a while to get to where we’d been seeing whales recently, we did find them. We found a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) first seen…

Sun Aug 23 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies and Knothead Seabass Capt. Dave reports a very good day of fishing. We started out down the beach where we had very nice pick of medium to large size Porgies. We went east of the lighthouse and had a good pick of Jumbo Porgies. We then did…

Captain JR reports a very nice morning onboard the Viking Star. It was a bit breezy early in the day so we stayed very local and hopped around a few of our hotspots. We had lots of success and found a multitude of species including Fluke, Seabass, Porgies, Trigger Fish, Squirrel Hake, and Blackfish (yes,…

Despite a light drizzle at the dock, we sailed away from Montauk under cloudy, but dry conditions, and found our first whale approximately three miles from shore. This was a minke whale, the smallest of baleen whales, which surfaced regularly around the vessel in short (30 seconds to 1.5 minutes) intervals while feeding on the…

Captain JR reports a good afternoon of catching onboard the Viking Star. We found a nice mix of Seabass, Porgies, and Fluke all trip with action in every area we fished. Not as many keeper sized Fluke as we have been seeing. But, there were a few nice big ones to top off the catch….

Capt. Dave reports a good day of fishing. We drifted most of the day and got a nice mix of Porgies, nice size Seabass, a couple keeper Fluke, and some Bluefish. All in all not a bad catch for such a large crowd. The first pool winner was Thomas Moreno from Queens, NY, with a…

A challenging yet successful trip ! The predicted conditions offshore where we’d been seeing whales was such that to ride there to search there would have been extremely uncomfortable. Since the nearshore waters are where we expect to see Tamanend’s bottlenose bolphins and juvenile humpback whales, we decided to turn west at the lighthouse and search those waters those nearshore….

Capt Steven Sr reports plenty of action on the Viking Star. We had lots of Porgies, a good amount of Sea Bass, a bunch of small Fluke and 4 – 10 lb Bluefish. There was action from start to finish bending the rods. The pool winner was Zachary Golish from NYC with an 8 lb…

Capt Dave reports that fishing was not bad today, but it was a bit off. Starting out at the light house we picked away at smaller Porgies in the lite tide which made the fish lazy. We caught, but everyone had to work at it. Drifting was much better than on the anchor. It was pretty much straight Porgies with a handful of Sea Bass. There were a lot of Sea Bass bites. The pool winner was Orville from NJ with a 2.2 lb Porgy.