Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Close to shore and lots of humpbacks! Our trip on the Viking Star left Montauk on a perfect day with calm seas, blue skies and a light breeze.  We had just rounded Montauk Point when we spotted a pod of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins, about 15-20 individuals.  Our vessel stopped, as we watched them, when several dolphins came up to and around our bow, swam away and then came back again. Tamanend’s have not usually been making these close approaches, and the passengers really enjoyed the encounter. Proceeding along the south shore eastward, we started passing huge schools of menhaden at the surface.  These fish, in their huge “bait balls”, were a mass of flashing silver scales, and are an important part of the marine food chain.  Sure enough, in a few minutes, we saw our first humpback whales eating them. …

Capt. Dave reports a great last day of local fishing on the Viking Starship. We started at the Lighthouse with lots of big Porgies, then went to anchor out of the tide and continued with good fishing! Lots of big Porgies and Seabass for the day. No Pool today.

Capt Dave G reports a slow morning of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite in rainy and windy conditions. We also had strong tides from the new moon, making for difficult drifting. Still, we managed to catch some porgies and sea bass.

Captain Carl reports similar results as last nights trip… plenty of Big Bluefish in the first part of the night, and quite the second part. Fire up the smokers for those Bluefish! We look forward to our next trips on the FULL SEPTEMBER MOON in two weeks!

Capt Dave reports that he started South of the lighthouse. It was mostly little Seabass and a few good sized porgies. He searched around and found mixed sized Med and Large Porgies with very good action. There was no Pool today.

Capt Dave G reports a slow morning of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite in rainy and windy conditions. We also had strong tides from the new moon, making for difficult drifting. Still, we managed to catch some porgies and sea bass. The pool winner was J. Smith of NY, NY with a 1.5lb Porgy.  

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…