Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Block Island Jumbo Porgies & Knothead SeaBass Capt Dave reports excellent fishing again on the Viking Starship. Everywhere we went was loaded with Porgies. The SeaBass fishing was tougher on the  deep drops and rock piles, but we did have jumbos  up to 8 lbs. We also had some Cod and Pollock. The first place…

1/2 Day – AM Capt Dave G reports a good morning of fishing aboard the Viking Stariper. We caught mostly Porgies, with some real nice size fish in the mix, and also some beautiful Sea Bass. We also had a couple short Fluke and a nice Triggerfish. The pool winner was David McGilvray from Long Island City, NY wih a 5.3 lb Trigger Fish.

Striped Bass Pool winner – Michael Keil, Blue Point, NY – 24 Lb Striped Bass  

Block Island Jumbo Porgies & Knothead SeaBass Capt Dave reports another great day of fishing on the Viking Star. The Porgy fishing was excellent close to the island. We anchored up and we had more smaller fish mixed in than yesterday, but we did have Jumbos. The SeaBass fishing was tougher today, but we had a good mix with Porgies and Cod as well. The pool winner was Michael Daniel from St. Kitts & Nevis with a 4 lb Scup.

Night Striped Bass *Full Report to Follow Pool Winner – David Berisha – Yonkers, NY There is space available tonight and the Saturday night trip. Sailing 6pm to midnight. $90 per person.

Block Island Jumbo Porgies & Knothead SeaBass Capt Dave reports an excellent day on the Viking Starship. The early Porgy fishing was a “Bail Job” with Jumbos coming over the rails! We headed offshore for the SeaBass where we made a couple of drops and found Big SeaBass, some Porgies and a few Cod that weighed in the teens. The pool winner was Danny Lee from Manhattan with a 3.3 lb Porgy.

Block Island Jumbo Porgies & Knothead SeaBass Capt Dave reports an excellent day on the Viking Starship. We had mostly Large Porgies and they bit their heads off!! There was also a lot of SeaBass action. We had to pick thru the little ones, but everyone had close to their limit. The pool winner was Ifa Gordon from NYC with a 3 1/4 lb Porgy.

2 Night Tuna-LTD Fri Sept 21 to Sun Sept 23 Capt Jerry reports an okay trip on the Viking Star. There was a lot of action on day one with trolling. We also had 70+ Mahi, Yellowfin, Wahoo, and a Mako Shark. The Tuna pool winner was Kwang Oh from Southampton, NY with a 58 lb Yellowfin. The edible pool winner was Chuck Palmer from New London, NH with a 32 lb Wahoo.  

Block Island Fall Jumbo Porgies and Knothead Sea Bass Captain Dave reports an excellent day of fishing on the Starship today.  We started off drifting early and caught the fish well. When the wind came on we anchored up ad fishing got even better. We did land Porgies of mixed size but had plenty of Jumbos mixed in. We headed Sea Bass fishing then and  even though they started off being a little picky we kept on them and pretty much everyone had their limit. Today’s pool was won by Jimmy Lin of Flushing NY with a 3lb porgy. The edible pool was won by Ayfer Karwoski from PA with a 3.5lb Sea Bass.

Sunday Sept 23 – Night Bass trip Capt Carl reports much improved fishing on last nights Full Moon Striped Bass trip. It was a little picky at first with just a few here and a few there, but improved with more steadiness catching 1-3 a drift for a while into the last hour when the…

Half Day Fishing  (Sunday Sept 23) A slow and then steady pick of porgies and seabass this afternoon. When we got back out the conditions were still tough with north east wind, we went around the point and had a slow pick of mostly short seabass and some porgies. When the tide slacked off we went east and found a good pile of jumbo porgies to round off the trip. Everyone went home with some fillets.

PM Half Day Fishing Trip Capt. Derrick reports a great trip with tons of fish, and big porgies. The pool winner was 10 year old Ryleigh Hernandez From Huntington, NY with a 4.1 lb porgy.