Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

A spectacular afternoon with an interesting and well-known humpback whale and loads of dolphins! On a brutally warm and muggy day on land, we were all ready for a cooler day at sea. We headed towards the area where we’d been seeing dense patches of prey, birds, and cetaceans for the past week. The prey,…

Captain JR reports an AMAZING day on the Viking Starlite. We had great action for the entire trip capturing all the species local Montauk waters have to offer. The Fluke made a great showing with several guys having an easy limit of beauties. The Sea Bass were basically everywhere we went and no one had…

Captain Dave reports an action packed day of fishing. We started down by the Lighthouse where the conditions were absolutely PERFECT. There, we had excellent Porgy fishing, and we also managed to catch some nice Flukes and Bluefish. Later, we headed offshore where we caught plenty of mix-sized Sea Bass. Congratulations to our pool winner, James Koeppel from Lindenhurst, NY, who caught a 3.3 lb Porgy.

Capt. Steven Sr. reports a great trip this morning. We had some Fluke, Porgies, Seabass, and Bluefish. We ended up with a nice mixed bag with tons of action the whole trip. Congratulations to our pool winners Dee Dee Morgan and Gracie Baumel from NYC with a 3 lb Fluke.

Capt Mike reports steady fishing all afternoon on the Viking Star. We had good numbers of Porgy and Sea Bass. The fluke were biting, but but only a few keepers. There were a lot of kids on board catching fish! The pool winner was Ruben Garcia from Westbury, NY with a 3.6 lb Fluke.

Capt JR reports that we decided to take out an extra light crowd today and scout the local Montauk grounds. We had lots of action with Fluke and Sea Bass. In some areas size was an issue but we kept on chugging. We also tried some deeper areas that had PLENTIFUL amounts of big ling…

Captain Dave reports a day of unbelievably good Porgy fishing. We started down by the Lighthouse where we caught plenty of nice-sized Sea Bass and Porgies. When the tide got a little rough we moved down, closer to the beach where we caught some nice Flukes and Sea Bass. Congratulations to our pool winner, Colin…

Captain Mike Ricker reports a slower start to the morning that quickly started to pick up, giving us non-stop action until the end of our trip. We had buckets filled of nice-sized jumbo Porgies and Flukes. It was a great morning on the water. Congratulations to our pool winner, Joe Scapani from Staten Island, NY,…

Captain JR reports an action packed afternoon on the Viking Star. We found lots of action everywhere we went with Sea Bass, big Porgies, and Fluke keeping everyone very busy. We scooped up several nice keeper Fluke to round out the afternoon of catching. The pool winner was Ron Ocean from East Hampton, NY with…

Capt. Dave reports an excellent morning of Porgy fishing again today. We started out by the Lighthouse where we has some little stuff, but then went to deeper waters where we had a very steady good pick of Porgies. By mid trip everybody had their share of beautiful Porgies, but we wanted to get some…

This was a tremendous and memorable trip! We started out toward an area with heavy bait and numerous reports of cetacean activity. En route, we encountered a juvenile humpback whale that was spending brief intervals at the surface, just enough to give everyone a quick look, before we decided to move on. Within a few…

Capt Dave G reports a good afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite. We had a great start to the afternoon, with nice keeper Seabass and nice Fluke. The second half of the trip was a little slower, after the breeze picked up. Still, we had a nice catch for the trip. The pool winner…