Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Capt Dave G reports a good afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We started out the trip with a lot of small Sea Bass, with a few nice keepers mixed in. Then we caught some nice size Porgies, a few keeper Fluke and a Bluefish. All in all, it was a nice afternoon of…

Capt Steven Sr. reports a bucket filling day on the Viking Starlite. We had lots of bites today with full buckets of Ling, a couple keeper Fluke with a lot of shorts and Sea Bass mixed in. Everyone went home with full coolers! No pool today. Tomorrow’s Full Day Block Island Jumbo Fluke & Knothead…

Capt Dave reports a good day on the Viking Starship. It was very good first thing at the lighthouse until the flood tide made for finicky fishing. We tried for Sea Bass in the deeper water up to 100 feet and had a few keepers for all. Definitely less little fish and more keepers in…

Capt Dave G reports a good morning of fishing aboard the Viking Star. We started a bit slowly, and picked a few fish on the first couple of drifts. Then we made a move and caught plenty of Fluke, Seabass and Porgies. The rods were bending for the rest of the trip. We ended up…

A long, but utterly unique and successful trip with finback whale mom and calf, and some dolphins! We travelled to an area that is one of the major whale feeding areas off Montauk and found nothing. We continued ENE for a while and turned to head back on a more northerly route, and then we saw the massive blow of an adult finback whale, and a faint blow of her calf! This is a new finback whale mom/calf pair for us, and what a pair it was! The calf kept swimming under and around our bow, then mom came up close to us. We were being “mugged” by both whales. These whales stayed so close to us that we could not move. Doing this for nearly 4 decades, I (Dr. Artie Kopelman, CRESLI president and senior scientist) have never seen…

Yesterday’s trip was punctuated with sightings from the start, and not limited to cetaceans. Our first-of- the-season sighting of bunker (Atlantic menhaden), an extremely important prey fish for a myriad of marine predators, kicked off our departure past the lighthouse. And not surprisingly, shortly thereafter, we encountered a large pod of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin. The pod was separated into two distinct groups, each consisting of tightly-packed individuals including adults, juveniles, and a few neonates (newborns) diving and surfacing together, with occasional tail slaps on the surface. While the sighting was invigorating, we decided to use our time wisely and continue east where baleen whales were seen on previous trips. As we transited, the sea boiled almost continuously with bait fish and occasional tuna, before the largest thing of all broke the surface behind us: a submarine! A possible spinner shark…

Captain Carl reports another beautiful afternoon and we had some good fishing too! We started out with lots of action, but mostly shorts. After a quick move, we found some much better size keeper Fluke and Seabass that we worked on for the rest of the trip! The pool winner was Jay Anh from Queens,…

Capt. Dave reports an excellent morning of fishing today. We started out by the lighthouse where we caught some really nice size Porgies. We then ventured over near Block Island where we tried our luck at some Seabass. We got some Seabass the bite wasn’t amazing today, we had a lot of shorts that had…

Captain Carl reports a beautiful morning today for our half day fishing trip. We caught plenty of the usual suspects of Fluke, Sea Bass, and Porgies, but the keeper ratio was down today. Plenty of action, just not that many keepers.  

A challenging but successful day! We left the dock expecting to escape from the heat and we did. We encountered wind and expected 4-5′ seas. We found a pod of about 20-10 Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins about 1.5 nautical miles from Montauk Point. We then headed ESE, experiencing the classic “old-time rock-and- roll” of 4-5′ seas for a few hours. We traveled through the area in which we’d found whales, dolphins, and pelagic birds on Monday 7/33/25. Spotting blows at distance was challenging due to all the white caps, and the wind, and waves. We searched and traveled and then at about 20 nm out, a finback whale blew 100 yards ahead of us! We could see the blows  (3 or 4 a few seconds apart, and the whale would go down for a terminal dive of 5-10 minutes, then come…

Capt Dave reports an excellent and lively fishing on the Viking Starship. We had a busy Porgy fishing near the Lighthouse with a mix of sizes. Then we moved a little offshore to get some Fluke and Sea Bass. The first place pool winner was Santiago Fuerte from Brooklyn, NY with a 3.6 lb Porgy….

Captain Steven Sr. reports a good day of fishing with plenty of action. Although there were a few shorts we still managed to catch some nice KEEPER Flukes, Sea Bass, and Porgies. Congratulations to our first place pool winner, Nicolas Sullivan from Montauk, NY, who caught a 4.0 lb Fluke. Another congratulations to our runner…