Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Capt Dave reports a good trip, but not as lively as yesterday. We headed back to the same spot by Block Island and had a slow steady pick of mixed size Porgies; Sea Bass, but not as many as yesterday, Mackerel, Fluke and about a dozen Triggerfish. The pool Porgy was truly a legit Jumbo….

Capt Mike reports that fishing was a little sporadic this morning. Drifts started slow then picked up with steady rod bending. We did manage some nice keeper Sea Bass and Porgies. We added a few really nice sized Fluke in the buckets as well! The first place pool winner was Chris Dordoni from Amityville, NY…

Capt JR reports a pretty good afternoon onboard the Viking Star. We returned to the home of the Fluke catching some flattie’s right away with a couple keepers before the tide changed and the bite shut off. After that we found some good action with nice big Porgies, a few small Bluefish, and mixed sized…

Capt Dave reports a true mixed bag on the Viking Starship today. We tried out the island again and had a really good trip. Not a bail job, but steady. There were mixed size Porgies, Sea Bass, Fluke, Ling, Mackerel, ocean Bonita and Bluefish of various sizes. Porgies were on the smaller size than we…

Captain JR reports a wonderful morning of catching onboard the Viking Star. Lots of action this with almost all the fish being Fluke. We did have a few stray Porgies and Seabass to offer some variety. We ended the trip with a very nice catch of keeper fluke all around the boat.  The pool winner…

With summer vacation soon ending, the mood onboard the Viking Starship yesterday was excited and joyful as we left the dock under beautiful blue skies, a light breeze, and unlimited visibility. We sailed passed historic Camp Hero and Montauk Point Lighthouse before finding numerous schools of bunker, visible as dark patches at the surface. Here, hundreds of shearwaters (primarily Cory’s and great) flew, fed, and rested with full bellies at the surface. The fish and bird life continued for the first couple of miles of our journey as we sailed southeast towards productive waters where cetaceans (whales and dolphins) were seen in abundance on previous trips. The unlimited visibility provided excellent views of Fire Island, and the bow was full of families and friends enjoying the voyage. To our surprise, despite its beauty and an abundance of bait detected by…

Capt Mike reports that conditions were not ideal this afternoon. We had pretty steady Sea Bass action most of the trip and the Fluke started to bite helping to fill up the buckets. The pool winner was Eugene Champlin from Mastic Beach, NY with a 5.6 lb Fluke.

Capt JR reports a slow start to our day onboard the Viking Starlite. We found loads of small Sea Bass at our usual fishing grounds with just a couple short Fluke mixed in. We took a long ride and explored some of the farther reaches of the Block Island waters. It ended up being ok…

Capt Dave reports a good trip on the Viking Starship. It was as slow start, so we did a lot of searching. We did find something to work on and picked away at Porgies and Sea Bass by the lighthouse. Everyone had a bunch of Porgies and a few Sea Bass. The pool winner was…

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,…