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Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Sat Aug 29 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass

Capt Dave reports a good day of fishing on the Viking Starship. We started out drifting by the lighthouse today with wind against tide. It was a nice slow drift of mixed. sized Porgies and Sea Bass. When the tide got going we went down the beach. It was a slow steady pick of BIG…

Sat Aug 29 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM

Captain JR reports a breezy, but enjoyable morning on the Viking Star. We found some nice areas to hide from the wind and caught lots of Sea Bass, Porgies, and Fluke. Most of the buckets had a mix of Sea Bass and Porgies. But, we found a few nice keeper sized Fluke to round out…

Fri Aug 28 – Full Moon Striped Bass

Captain Carl reports an action packed evening on our Full Moon trip! The jig bite was very very good from the start and into the dark with plenty of Bluefish making our anglers arm weary. Everyone had fun catching! Unfortunately, we didn’t see any Striped Bass last night, but we are in the early stages…

Fri Aug 28 – 1/2 Day Fishing PM

Captain Carl reports another fine afternoon of fishing on our half day boat. Once again, Black Sea Bass and Porgies made up the majority of our catch, with a few Fluke mixed in including a nice Jumbo Flatty, and a nice size Weakfish to round out the catch. The pool winner was Zachary Geft with…

Fri Aug 28 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass

Capt Dave reports very good fishing on the Viking Starship. Like the past few days we started out down the beach out of the tide and had excellent fishing with all Large & Jumbo Porgies. We tried Sea Bass fishing closer to Block Island and we picked a lot. Everyone ended up with a few…

Wed Aug 26 – Whale Watching

We found them again! This was another beautiful day with unlimited visibility. We headed out towards where we’ve been seeing whales over the past trips and once again found a whale that we’d seen on our last two trips. This whale was first identified in 2024 off Block Island.  We stayed with this whale for…

Fri Aug 28 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM

Captain Carl reports a fine morning of fishing on our half day trip. We had an awesome dolphin show on our ride out to the grounds too! Our anglers were able to catch and keep mostly Black Sea Bass and Porgies, with a couple Fluke mixed in as well! It is a beautiful day and…

Thurs Aug 27 – 1/2 Day Fishing PM

Capt Steven Sr reports tougher fishing this afternoon. We did have action with some keeper Sea Bass and Porgies. There were some short Fluke, but no keepers. Pool winner was Vilert Williamson from the Bronx with a 3.2 lb Sea Bass.

Thurs Aug 27 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass

Capt Dave reports another great day of fishing on the Viking Starship. Again we started off down the beach out of the tide and had very good fishing with all Large and Jumbo Porgies! We did so well there we headed offshore to the Sea Bass spot. There were plenty of Sea Bass, but  only…

Thur Aug 27 – 1/2 Day Fishing AM

Capt Steven Sr reports a lot of action on the Viking Star this morning. Rods were bending and we had a mixed bag of Fluke, Sea Bass and Porgies. The first place pool winner was Tecumseh Ceaser from Astoria, NY with a 3.2 lb Fluke. The second place pool winner was Brayden Raguso from Commack,…

Wed Aug 26 – Montauk Lighthouse Jumbo Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass

Capt Dave reports Excellent fishing today on the Viking Starship. We started off down the beach out of the tide and had a nice pick of the biggest kind! The Porgies were the largest we have seen since July! All Large & Jumbo! We finished off at the lighthouse and made one drop. It was a mixed bag of mixed size Porgies, some keeper Sea Bass with a lot of throwbacks, Bluefish, Triggerfish and Fluke. The first place pool winner was Ray Young from Brooklyn, NY with a 4 lb JUMBO Porgy. The edible pool winner was Kim Callander from Roselle, NY with a 6 lb Fluke.        

Wed Aug 26 – 1/2 Day Fishing PM

Captain JR reports a great afternoon of catching on the Viking Star. We had loads of action all around the boat with Sea Bass, Porgies, and Fluke keeping us very busy. There was definitely an increase in the size of the catch all around. Big Sea Bass and some beauty Fluke rounded out our catch…