Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Captain Mike reports a trip filled with steady action. Our crew put plenty of nice keeper Sea Bass and Porgies in our buckets. It was a very pleasant morning on the water. Congratulations to our pool winner, Ryan Cohen, from Syosset, NY, who caught a 3 lb Sea Bass.

Capt JR reports a slower afternoon onboard the Viking Star. The breeze made it difficult to return to our more prosperous grounds from this morning. But, we searched around and found some Sea Bass, Fluke, and Porgies to keep us busy. The pool winner was John P0llegra from NJ with a 3.8 lb Fluke.

Not wanting to repeated the previous day’s effoprts, we headed out to investigate several different whale spotting territories and had success The conditions were excellent, the visibility was limitted to around 5 miles at first, but opened up to at least 14 miles. We headed south soon found a scalloped hammerhead shark and a few pelagic (open ocean) birds, before we eventually found two humpback whales in an area where the depth was 125′ and their prey (most likely sand eels) were patchily distributed on the sea floor. One whale was ahead of us and one on our stern, Both dove several times before any photos were taken, both stayed down for anywhere from 8-15 minutes. After the “last” dive was at 15:00 minutes long and counting, and we’d unseccessful in getting photo ID’s, and had been with these whales for 27 minutes,…

Capt Dave reports a decent day on the Viking Starship. We tried something different today and headed to the west side of Block Island. Unfortunately it was too early. There was a lot of action, but it was with small Porgies & Sea Bass. Everyone only managed a few nice ones there. We headed back…

Captain JR reports a nice pick of fish onboard the Viking Star this morning. Decent action kept us fairly busy with mostly Fluke and a few Seabass bending the rods. We ended up finding some very nice keeper Fluke for the buckets! A gorgeous morning to be out. The pool winner was Kevin Carney from…

Capt Dave G reports a slower afternoon in breezy conditions. We still managed to put together a catch of nice size Porgies and Seabass, along with 1 nice size Fluke. The first place pool winner was Ron Ocean from East Hampton, NY, with a 4 lb Fluke. The second place winner was Tommy Sheerin from…

Capt. Dave reports a decent morning of fishing with a slow steady pick all day. We couldn’t go down by the lighthouse due to the conditions, but we managed a nice catch of Porgies, Seabass, and Triggerifsh and made a good day out of it. The first place pool winner was Bayron N. from Edison,…

Capt Dave G reports a good morning of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite. The trip started out a bit slow, but we tried a few spots and finally the fish started to bite! We ended up with a mixed bag of nice size Porgies, Sea Bass and a Bluefish. All in all, it was a…

Captain JR reports a mixed night of fishing onboard the Viking Star. Like the previous night, fishing started out red hot with lots of giant Blues bending all the rods. The action continued until the darkness took over and things slowed down significantly. We definitely had lots of fun for a couple hours and spirits…

Only two days after Hurricane Erin stirred up nearly 20-ft seas off Montauk, we headed off unsure of what we may or may not encounter. Shortly after steaming beyond the inlet, we encountered a small pod of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin, a species we typically find much closer to the open ocean beyond the Point. We continued on after a short stop and found a humpback whale just a couple of miles southwest of Camp Hero State Park. We spent time with this whale, a juvenile, which would surface every three to four minutes, likely feeding on bait detected near the bottom. We eventually headed east where humpback and finback whales were spotted the day prior. Almost immediately, more Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins were spotted, in small groups at first, not exceeding 20-30 individuals per pod. This continued for a few miles…

We headed out after the effects of Hurricane Erin were settling down. Often after these kinds of events, we are sure what might become of the whales’ prey and the whales. We decided to head towards where we had been finding whales over the past few weeks. We were pleasantly surprised by finding whales significantly closer than we expected. At first we saw the characteristic towering blows of finback whales, a mom and her calf. After a while, we headed towards a nearby pair of humpback whales, also a mom and her calf. In both cases always a special treat to see. The humpbacks could be seen open-mouth feeding and filtering – again, always a pleasure to see, whether you’re a newbie or have been at it for nearly 4 decades. We ended the trip while looking at our 5th…

Captain Mike reported that the trip started off a bit slow, but the action picked up and turned into steady rod-bending fun right through to the end. The fluke bite turned on later in the day, with Seabass, Porgies, and a few nice Fluke filling the buckets. All in all, a great afternoon on the…