Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Mark Kaminski Charter Captain Steven Sr reports an outstanding deep water trip this past week with the Mark Kaminski group. After a long steam, on Day 1 we had great conditions and fishing was good good from the first drop of the morning. We caught lots of tile, hake, pollack, cusks, barrels and our first…

Capt Mike reports a good morning on the Viking Star. It was a slow start since we started between tides, but it picked up and we put a catch together. We had action with shorts and caught keeper Fluke, a bunch of SeaBass and a Striped Bass. The first place pool winner was Jack White from Asbury Park, NJ with a 4.5 lb Fluke. The edible pool winner was Annie Holcombe from Bronxville, NY with a 15 lb Striped Bass.

 Capt Dave reports a good day on the Viking Star. We started out with good conditions at the lighthouse with mixed size Porgies. We then moved off to the east for SeaBass and found a lot of smaller fish, but we picked thru them and got what we needed. There were a couple of quality keeper Fluke caught again today. The pool winner was Fred Nichols from Hempstead, NY with a 3 1/4 lb Scup. The edible pool winner was Noel Enson from Brooklyn, NY with a 5 lb SeaBass. Tomorrow we will start sailing daily for Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies & Knothead SeaBass on the 140 foot Jumbo Viking Starship!

Capt Mike reports steady action on the Viking Stariper. It was a slow start, but it picked up and remained steady until the end. We had keeper Fluke along with some shorts and a bunch of keeper SeaBass. The pool winner was 8 year old Eli Schechter from Montauk, NY with a 5 1/2 lb Fluke.

1/2 Day Fishing PM Capt Steven Jr reports a good afternoon on the Viking Stariper with plenty of action. We didn’t have as many keeper Fluke as the morning trip, but we still had a few. A mess of SeaBass & Porgies were in the mix as well. The pool winner was Bruce Lessler from Franklin Sauare, NY with a 2.7 lb Fluke.

Captain Dave reports from the Viking Star a decent day drifting around the Montauk Lighthouse. A good mix of large to Jumbo Porgies, Sea Bass and quite a few Fluke. Some quality Fluke were landed. A lot of Sea Bass shorts were caught and released unharmed, but almost everyone got their limit of Sea Bass keepers. The largest Sea Bass was 4 1/2 pounds and many over 4 pounds were taken home. Pool winners were Jeff Greenbaum of Scarsdale, NY with a 3 3/4 pound Scup and Roy Shaw of Brooklyn, NY with an 8 pound Fluke. +3  

1/2 Day Fishing Trip AM Capt. Steven reports a great morning with tons of action the whole trip. We had a good amount of keeper Fluke and a handful of keeper Seabass with some porgies mixed in. The pool winner is Steve Bento from Montauk NY with a 5lb Fluke.

1/2 Day PM Capt Mike reports a lot of action on the Viking Stariper. It was a steady pick of shorts with a couple keeper Fluke, a few keeper SeaBass and some Porgies. The pool winner was Walker Thomas from Austin, TX with a 3 lb Fluke.

Montauk Jumbo Lighthouse Porgies & Knothead SeaBass Capt Dave reports an excellent day on the Viking Star. We had mixed size Porgies at the Lighthouse with limits all around the boat. We then headed east for SeaBass where we had a mix of smaller fish, but some big ones mixed in. We also had a bunch of keeper Fluke. The first place pool winner Kim Ping Chan from Brooklyn with a 4 1/2 lb Scup. The edible pool winner was Pete Seabrook from Long Island with a 6 lb Fluke.

Captain Mike reports a good morning on the Viking Stariper. We had steady action all morning with good drifts and all anglers catching. We had a few Porgies, some keeper Fluke and plenty of Sea Bass shorts and a few Sea Bass keepers. Today’s pool winner was Donn Rocco of Centereach NY with a 3 1/2 pound Fluke.  

Capt Dave reports perfect conditions on the Viking Star today. We had a great drift at the lighthouse and picked away all morning putting a great catch together. The Porgies were mostly large and jumbo up to 3 1/2 lbs. We made a SeaBass stop on the way back finding a lot of little fish, but everyone had their limit with fish up to 5 lbs. There were also 2 keeper Fluke and a bunch of throwbacks. We did not have a pool today.

Captain Steven Jr reports on the Viking Fivestar that they had a phenomenal first day Fluking and a very tough day Cod fishing.  We started off on the Nantucket Fluke grounds and had great action all day with some amazing quality sized fish.  Most fish averaged 4-6 pounds and we had over 35 fish from 8-10 pounds and 5 fish from 10-12 pounds and a 13.4 pound personal best for angler, Bruce Wahl.  By the end of the day everyone had a load of big fluke. Day 2 we decided to go Cod fishing on Coxes Ledge due to the slow fishing reports coming from anglers on Georges Bank.  We didn’t find much better results on Coxes Ledge as they were having on Georges Bank.  We covered a lot of ground from 180 feet of water up to 60 feet…