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Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

New Bedford

Tue Sept 17 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Sea Bass

Capt Dave reports a decent day on the Viking Starship. We explored close to the beach today and had very good fishing. There was real quality with big Porgies and Sea Bass. It was a tie for the pool today with 2 3/4 lb Porgies between Safet Kavaceic and Staton Mighty from Brooklyn. We will…

Sun July 28 – Full Day Block Island Fluke & Sea Bass

Capt JR reports a solid day of fishing today off Block Island on the Viking Starlite! The SeaBass bite was a little off this morning, but most anglers did find their limit, with some really nice size to the fish today. The Fluke fishing definitely continued to be quite good with lots of fishing coming…

Saturday June 4

New Bedford Porgies Captain Steven Jr reports a very tough day today. We had difficult time with the porgies, but we did get some nice sized sea bass. Montauk Jumbo Spring Porgies Captain Dave reports a tough day of fishing aboard the Viking Stariper. We had a decent amount of big fish for about an hour. After that we culled thru a lot of little fish. At the end of the trip everyone ended up with about a bucket of fish. The pool winner was Tina Nichols from Brooklyn, NY with a 3lb porgy. 1/2 Day Fluke Captain Dave reports a fun fluke trip. We had a bunch of keepers up to 4lbs. A couple dozen porgies and blue fish. The pool winner was Steve Gayda from Merrick, NY with a 4lb fluke.

Wednesday June 1

Montauk Jumbo Spring Porgies Captain Dave reports a good day of porgy fishing today. It started out tough with a difficult tide, but once the tide changed, it was a bail job! We had a mixed size of porgies, we also had some blues and 1 striped bass. Today’s pool winner was Shkelzen Morina of Richmond Hill with a nice 3.5lb porgy. New Bedford Porgies Steven Jr reports they had a good day today from beginning to end! We had a steady pick that resulted in full coolers of porgies and everyone with or close to their seabass limit! Nicky N. from Brooklyn took the pool with a 3.2 lb porgy.

Mon May 30

New Bedford Porgies Captain Steven Jr reports a good day of fishing today aboard the Viking Star. We had mixed size fish coming up all morning. On the way home, we made our last drop of the day and everyone had a nice shot of sea bass. Montauk Jumbo Spring Porgies Captain Dave reports a lot of action on the first drop with mixed size fish. The second drop was a “Bail Job” of BIG FISH. We also had some blue fish, weak fish, and sea bass – released unharmed. The pool winner was Benjamin Hercules from Uniondale, NY with a 3 1/2 lb porgy.

Sun May 29

1/2 Day Fluke-AM Captain Carl reports excellent fishing with a lot of keepers. Every group went home with fish. The first place pool winner was Glenn Schwitter from New Milford, CT with a 6.2lb fluke. The second place pool winner was Kamal Chata from Jackson Heights, NY with a 5.7lb fluke. 1/2 Day Fluke-PM Captain Carl reports another excellent afternoon of fishing. Several locals climbed out of their caves from winter hibernation. Some of the highlights included Freddie “Motor” Shay catching 7 keeper fluke (ORL) up to 6.5lbs. Bill Swill needed a tutorial on how to use his rod, and after that somehow managed to catch a keeper fluke. The first place pool winner was long time Viking angler, Terri Coleman of Holbrook, NY with a 6.6 lb fluke. The second place pool winner was Tyler Paola from Deer Park,…

Thursday May 26

Montauk Jumbo Spring Porgies Captain Dave reports an excellent day of porgy fishing today! The bite was on with mixed size fish up to 3.5lbs. Everyone had their limit and we also had a mix of blues and some sea bass, which were all released unharmed. New Bedford Porgies Captain Anthony reports that fishing was good and everyone had their fill of jumbo sea bass and scup. We also had some nice fluke and black fish brought on board. The first place pool winner was Jess Lao-Ang from Niantic, Ct with a 4lb scup. The second place winner was Henry Johnson from New Jersey with a 5lb sea bass. George’s Bank Cod/Haddock/Halibut Hunt – Monday May23 to Wed May 25 Captain Steven Sr reports that George’s Bank was “HOLY HADDOCK”! We have been fishing there since 1978 and have never…

Wed May 25

New Bedford Porgies and Sea Bass Captain Anthony reports a good day of fishing aboard the Viking Star. Everyone had their fair share of porgies and sea bass. There were also some nice black fish in the mix as well. The pool winner was Tonia Thompson from Bridgeton, NJ with a 4lb porgy.

Tue May 24

New Bedford Porgies and Sea Bass Captain Anthony reports a slow bite of porgies and sea bass today.

Sun May 22

Far & Deep Exploring New Grounds – May 18th to May 22 Captain Steven Sr. reports the Far & Deep Trip was outstanding. We went FAR! and DEEP! Weather, fishing and our explorers were great! Day 1 – Full coolers of tile, big pollack, hake in the first four hours. We then took a little ride looking around and we had a mid-day pick, but by 4pm it was on again with big tiles, barrel’s, hake, and northern grouper with double headers and even a triple header on 2 hooks! We had full coolers again by dark. Day 2 – Exploring for LG tile was slow the first half of the day, but by 11am tiles of all sizes started coming over the rail. For three hours it was good – good. Full coolers again. The PM big fish hunt…