Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

The pool winner was Skip Granger with a 3.6 lb Sea Bass.

Capt Dave reports an okay day on the Viking Starship. We started out on the anchor midway to Block Island and picked away very well. It was the best fishing we saw with mixed size Porgies and some Sea Bass. There were a lot of Sea Bass closer to the island with nice size Porgies…

Capt.  Joe reports good action this morning. Lots of Porgies and some keeper Fluke. It was great fishing in calm local waters. Todays morning pool winner was Andrew Rzempoluch with a 3.4lb Fluke.

Captain Carl reports plenty of action for the first half of the trip last night aboard the mighty Viking Starship, however, a dismal second half. The diamond jigs worked very well for quality sized fun fighting bluefish, and plenty of them. We caught plenty, so we switched over to the live bait and searched most…

Capt Dave reports a good day on the Viking Starship. We started off down the beach today, but it was a dead zone. There was a big ground swell on and the water was dirty resulting in no bites. So we headed offshore and had a little shot of Porgies and Sea Bass with everybody…

Captain JR reports a great start to our 2026 offshore season on the Viking Star. Our first TNT trip was a big success with a nice boat limit of Yellowfin Tuna and Golden Tilefish. We spent the daylight hours catching Golden Tilefish, Blueline Tilefish, Barrel Fish, Pollock, assorted Hakes, Red Belly Rosefish, and Cusk. The…

Dolphins, whales, hammerhead shark, bald eagle, and a whole lot more   We decided to head west nearer to shore because of reports of juvenile humpbacks, and find them we did, along with a 6 year old humpbacl a bit further off shore that we’d seen in late August. A wonderful trip with nearly 120…

Capt Dave reports a good morning on the Viking Starship. We started off down the beach with a steady pick of Large and Jumbo Porgies for about 2 hours. When that ran out we anchored East of the lighthouse half way between Montauk and Block Island with a good action catching mixed sized Porgies and…

4 different cetacean species!! This season had been full of surprises, but nothing come close to what we saw at our 2nd stop of this trip. Our first stop was to observe a small group of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins, those light greyish bottlenose dolphins seen near shore in both sides of the LI since 2009. We then received a report of a whale near the Mid-Way Buoy (between Montauk and Block Island). We saw the blow from afar and the whales blow and body initially looked like a humpback whale with significant scarring.  The whale was perpendicular to us as is blew and dove, lifting its flukes out of the water. We traveled slowly towards the whale and waited about 500 yards away. That was fortuitous because the whale came up very close to us and it was clearly a…

Capt Dave reports a decent day on the Viking Starship. It was a slow and steady pick down the beach to start the trip. We tried one drop at the lighthouse, but it wasn’t great, so we headed about midway to Block Island. It was very lively there! We had a mixed bag of Porgy…

Capt Dave G reports a slow afternoon of fishing in breezy conditions. We did manage a couple of nice keeper fluke along with some porgies and sea bass. There was no pool this afternoon.

It was an absolutely beautiful day to spend the holiday on the water! With sunny skies, excellent visibility, and refreshing breezes, we headed out along the shore following reports of whales near the shore. We found our first whale early, a juvenile humpback off the town of Montauk, in 50 feet of water. The whale was likely feeding at depth completing high fluking dives and long down times. A blow belonging to a second whale was observed in the distance so after spending some time with the first one, we headed out to investigate the second. On our way, one of our volunteers spotted a pod of dolphins to our side, so we changed course to check them out. The dolphins, Tamanend’s bottlenose, were broken up into two large groups, totally 70-90 individuals. After enjoying some time with them, we…