Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Another great day on the water! It was already a successful trip when we left the dock exchanging cool ocean breezes for the heat and humidity on land. As the Viking Starship passed Montauk Point, the captain spotted dolphins to the east, which we quickly investigated. Here we found between 40-60 Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins which ended up surrounding the vessel in numerous small pods. Passengers had good looks of this early cetacean sighting before we headed offshore to find the whales we have been seeing on previous trips this season. We had to travel about fifteen miles southwest of the Point, but eventually found multiple blows belonging to between 9-12 humpback whales. While approaching two blows ahead of us, an adult humpback rocketed from the water revealing its entire body in a spectacular breach off the portside. We sat safely…

Another successful 3 species trip! On today’s trip we escaped the oppressive heat on land and headed to cooler waters (cooler compared to land but much warmer that the lower 50’s sea surface temperature (SST) we had in May) and initially found 50-60 Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin and 1 fin whale close to Montauk Light We…

Capt. Steven Sr. reports a tough afternoon of fishing today. We had some keeper Fluke, Porgies ,and Seabass, but the bite was definitely not as good as this morning. We had no pool this afternoon but did have a nice 4 lb Fluke on board. uke brought over the rails.

Captain Dave reports another excellent day of fishing. Fishing was a little slower starting off because of the tide, but it picked up towards the end of the trip. Today we caught plenty of Fluke, Porgies, and Sea Bass. Congratulations to our pool winner, Mo Grossman, who caught 2.6-lb Porgy.  

Capt. Steven Sr. reports an excellent day of fishing. We had more Fluke action today than we have all season. Nice beautiful Fluke, Porgies, and Seabass were coming over the rails keeping us busy the whole trip. Everyone got some beautiful fish to cook up for dinner. The first pool winner was Yoshi Finnabashi from…

Captain JR reports an improved afternoon on the Viking Star. Things started out on a high note with lots of fluke and a few Porgies and Seabass keeping us very busy. We found some very nice KEEPER Fluke early on until the tide eased off. Things definitely slowed to a pick after the change but…

Capt. Dave reports a slow steady pick this morning. At about mid day we hit a weird lull where there was very little action. After about 30 mins the fish started biting again. We had a good mix of Porgies, Seabass, Sea Robbins, some Bluefish and one keeper Fluke. The first pool winner was Noel…

Captain JR reports a tougher morning onboard the Viking Star. The moon tide definitely had the fish off the bite a bit. But, we had a pick of Seabass, Porgies, Fluke, and a couple Trigger fish for most of the trip. Not the usual level of catching we have been having, but everyone got a…

Captain JR reports a decent afternoon onboard the Viking Star. We started out with lots of action catching sea bass, porgies, and fluke. But, the approaching full moon tide started moving very quickly and we had to change locations from our recent honey holes. Despite this, we still found ok fishing and made the best…

Captain JR reports a very nice morning on the Viking Star. We found lots of action with Porgies, Seabass, and Fluke. The big Seabass were very hungry this morning along with some gorgeous KEEPER Fluke scooped up in our nets. Also, we had a few Cocktail Blues and Trigger fish to top off the morning….

A 5-species cetacean day! On our travels offshore to find the humpbacks we encountered on Wednesday’s trip, we discovered numerous small pods of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins which could be seen swimming through the swells and waves around our vessel about 3 miles from the lighthouse. The dolphins were not at all bothered by our presence,…

Captain Carl reports another beautiful afternoon out on the water. Fishing was tougher than in the morning, with a raging tide plus wind together making for very fast and tricky conditions. We still managed our usual suspects of Porgies, Sea Bass, and a couple Keeper Flukes. The pool winner was Nicole Szendy with a 4.5…