Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Our first humpback of the season! For our second trip of the season, we sailed along the shoreline following an abundance of prey (bait) in the region in the hopes that cetaceans (whales and dolphins) might be found feeding there. On this last day of May, the wind and chill of spring were still present,…

Capt Dave reports another nice day of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite. The porgies were biting, this was probably one of our better days this season, with most anglers going home with pretty full buckets. We started the day in shallow water, but heavy seaweed pushed us into deeper water where we found a good…

Fog, fog, and more fog  It was super foggy start to our 31st season. While conditions north and west of the Montauk Lighthouse were excellent with 6 miles of visability, as we headed west a bit offshore we entered into the fog. Visability droopped to 440 yards (1/4 mile) and continued to drop to abouut 150 yards and would vary betweeen these values as we headed west towards Napeague, where the SST (sea surface temperature) was 52.05 oF.  We headed out to deeper water in Block Channel, but the fog remained and the SST rose to a whopping 53.74 oF. More fog and slight clearings continued wherever we went.  We were able to see  2 Great shearwaters (Ardenna gravis) and 8 Sooty shearwaters (Ardenna grisea), as well as 1 Wilson’s storm petrel (Oceanites oceanicus). A few folks had a brief view of an Oceand…

Capt Dave reports a tougher day of fishing today on the Viking Starlite given the less than ideal fishing conditions. The water today was a lot more stirred up than its been with a lot of seaweed making the pick on the Porgies more difficult as they tend to not bite as much. However everyone…

Capt Dave reports an OK day of Porgy fishing today on the Viking Starlite. It was definitely an improvement from what we’ve been seeing with a much steadier pick. We had one nice drop that for the beginning of the day held steady with one good quality fish, but once the tid started to run…

Capt Dave reports a decent day of Porgy fishing today on the Viking Starlite. The first drop this morning turned out to be the best drop with a slow pick of some improved sized Porgies. We had a solid hour and a half to two hour pick here and bounced around to a couple other…

Capt. Dave reports a tough day of fishing today. It was a slow bite but we still got some decent action. The pool winner was Graylin Clayton from Westchester, NY, with a 2lb Porgy.

Captain JR reports a rainy and cold afternoon in the Viking Star but, we stuck it out and had fishing much like this morning. Some Seabass and small Fluke kept us busy and cheery at the rail. There was no pool today.

Capt Dave reports slower fishing on the Viking Starlite. The Porgies came off the bite due to the water chilling down, but everyone got a few. Lenny Nangle from Queens, NY won the pool with a 2 lb Porgy. We are taking tomorrow off due to the inclement weather, but we will be back out…

Capt JR reports a slower morning onboard the Viking Star. We did find a few short Fluke and some nice keeper Sea Bass to keep us interested. But, all around it was spotty. We are sailing this afternoon, but the 1/2 Day Fishing trips are cancelled tomorrow.

Captain Joe reports much improved Squid  fishing from what we have been seeing… but overall still extremely slow. The good news is, a LOT more bait has shown up and it looks like things are ready to bust open… We are going to give it another shot this coming Monday night, May 25. We have a nice weather forecast so let’s go!

Captain Dave reports a solid day out on the water. Our crew reeled in a lot of large fish during the first two hours. It was a little quiet after, but towards the end of our trip, we finished off with a very good large and jumbo bite. Today’s pool winner is Destin Jean-Francois from…