Mon July 8 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM
Capt Carl reports an excellent morning of fishing on our Half Day Family Fun trip! We had a light crowd of anglers this morning that all enjoyed catching KEEPER Fluke, Giant Sea Bass, and dinner plate Porgies! The seas were flat calm too! We will be sailing again today at 1PM! No pool today on…
Sun July 7 – 1/2 Day Fishing PM
Capt Mike reports some decent action this afternoon on the Viking Star. The bite definitely settled down from this morning with the influence of a large groundswell. Despite more difficult conditions this afternoon we still saw lots of rods bending all over the boat and managed to get some nice Porgy and SeaBass over the…
Sun July 7 – Full Day Block Island Jumbo Fluke & Sea Bass
Capt JR reports a very big improvement for the full day Fluke and SeaBass trip on the Viking Starlite! We had loads of life everywhere we went and SeaBass being the main catch of the day with a side of Fluke. Everyone easily had their limit on the SeaBass, as we were pulling up all…
Sun July 7 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass
Capt Dave reports an excellent day of Porgy fishing on the Viking Starship. Porgies were certainly biting today with not much else coming up. We tried a few different spots, but everywhere we went went was just Porgies. There were a few Seabass in the mix, but not as many as we’ve been seeing. However, …
Sun July 7 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM
Capt Mike reports a very productive morning of fishing on the Viking Star. We had the Fluke bite right from the start of today’s trip. After picking away through some mixed size Fluke, we started to get into a nice Porgy and SeaBass drift. We definitely had a nice mixed bag pick this morning. The…
Sat July 6 – 1/2 Day Fishing PM
Capt Mike reports a good trip on the Viking Star. The windy conditions forced us to fish were we could. We caught a couple nice keeper Fluke. There were also a lot of short Sea Bass and Fluke making for some lively action. The pool winner was Ben Jackson from Freeport, NY with a 4.5…
Sat July 6 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM
Capt Mike reports a pretty slow morning of fishing on the Viking Star. We had a few keeper Fluke and Porgies in the buckets, but the weather seemed to have slowed down the action on this mornings trip. The pool winner this morning went to Emil Kayser from NYC, NY with a 4 lb SeaBass.
Fri July 5 – Whale Watching
The third whale watch of our 2024 season was as successful and amazing as the first two! We headed out in search of two whales reported to be feeding right off the lighthouse. Blows and splashes could be seen before I even finished talking about the historic landmark. Between six to eight humpbacks could be seen feeding and diving on the abundant sand eels (sand lance) in the area. We spent most of our time watching two whales kick feed, throwing their massive bodies sideways, kicking at the bait in the water and coming up immediately after with large, gaping open mouths, as they filter out the fish through their dense mats of baleen. There were about six whales in the immediate vicinity, in all directions, so it took time to eventually encounter all of them. CRESLI can identify individual…
Wed July 3 – Whale Watching
Another spectacular multispecies trip (humpbacks, minkes, finbacks, and Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins We left the dock under excellent conditions (unlimited visibility and 2′ seas). Early on, just around Montauk Lighthouse we found ~300 Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins, always a good way to start. Further out, we encountered a small and lethargic humpback whale. We stayed with it…
Fri July 5 – New Moon Striped Bass
Capt J.R. reports a very good night of fishing on the Viking Starship. We started our trip jigging for Stripers and we certainly had loads of Bass on jigs, then the bite continued on into the eel portion of the night. We had all sized Striped Bass from shorts, slot sized fish, and some real…