Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

48 hr Tuna Trip – Viking Fivestar – 7/19-7/21 Capt Steven Jr reports another great trip offshore this weekend. We had steady action on the Yellow Fin all day, never going more then 45 minutes with out getting fish on. We ended up with our boat limit of 30 yellows from 35-75lbs and released over a dozen other fish and found a stud Big Eye that weighed in at 241lbs!! Fishing offshore remains hot and we are hoping to have a great year. Give the office a call or check the website for all trip info and bookings!

Captain Mike reports on the Viking Stariper a slower start to this afternoon’s trip. Captain Mike says the drift was almost non-existent to start the trip, but the action really picked up as the day went on . Large Quality Sea Bass and doormat sized Fluke were brought aboard with a good amount of Porgies as well. Pool winner this afternoon was John Becak from Islip Terrace with a 24″ Fluke weighing in at 5 pounds. A close second was our morning pool winner Angelica Eckhoff from Commack NY with a 23″ 4 pound Fluke.

Captain Mike on the Viking Stariper reports a great day on the water. The weather was perfect especially after the warm weekend. The anglers caught a multitude of fish. Sea Bass, Scup and Fluke were all in the keeper category. The mates were kept busy cleaning fish wishing they had a few minutes to take more photos! The pool winner today was Angelica Eckoff of Commack NY with a 20″ 3 pound Fluke.

Captain Dave reports from the Viking Starship a great trip was had by all today. We went off near the Montauk Lighthouse and quickly caught our limit of large and Jumbo Porgies. With plenty of time left in the trip; we decided to try something a little different. We went a little farther off-shore to the East than usual and all the anglers really enjoyed the constant action and variety of fish brought onboard. Sea Bass was a mixture of shorts and keepers. About a half dozen of the Fluke were keepers with the largest being 5-6 pounds. In addition to Fluke, Scup and Sea Bass anglers on this morning’s trip also caught Ling, Mackerel and a Cod!  

Sun July 21 Humpback action! Once again we headed out to find whales, and as soon as we got past Montauk Lighthouse and onto the Atlantic Ocean, we were out of the heat! Sea surface temperatures were in the upper 60’s, a welcome relief. We headed west towards where humpbacks had been for the past few days and in a short while found one. This 40’ (-13 m) whale, probably weighed 45,000 lbs (-20 metric tons), and was logging (resting at the surface) just as it had done one week earlier. We spent some time with this whale be heading further west. At the Napeague Stretch, we headed offshore for a few miles, then began heading eastward. We saw a whale a few miles ahead, got up to it; it was the same whale we’d seen logging. Not logging now!…

Capt Phil on the Viking Stariper reports a good day for Sea Bass and Fluke. We caught tons of Porgies some Sea Robins and a couple of Skate. It was a gorgeous day out on the water, and almost everyone went home with fish. The pool winner was Kathleen M Foley Power from West Palm Beach, FL with a 4.5 lb Fluke. pictures to follow.  

Capt. Dave reports good fishing this morning on the Viking Starship. We went out by the lighthouse got some good size Porgies, then we decided to go out East closer to Block Island where we found a lot of little Porgies and Seabass that we had to pick through to find the nice ones. Overall …

Capt. Phil reports on the Viking Star a nice day of fishing this morning. The mates were kept busy helping the customers with the fish they caught. We had lots of action leaving everyone with coolers full of fish. The 1st pool winner was Christine Tristram from Freeport NY, with a 6.5 lb Fluke. The…

Capt. Phil on the Viking Starship reports slow fishing but still lots of action. We didn’t start catching much until after dark when we used live eels. We then caught some nice size Striped Bass and several Blues mixed in. The pool winner to follow .

Capt. Phill reports a slower afternoon. We did have some cation with some nice keepers. The pool winner was Meggin Simmons from Eats Hampton, NY with a 3.75 lb Fluke.

Today we left Montauk with clearing skies and a cool breeze.  We traveled south and within an hour saw some splashes in front of us.  This turned out to be a group of dolphins.  These were the first bottlenose dolphins we have seen this year and they crossed right in front of our bow.  The group stayed very tightly together as they moved around the boat, sometimes “porposing” out of the water.  We stayed with them for some time before moving onward. After another 45 minutes we spotted our first whale; a large fin whale.  Fin whales are the second largest of the whales and second largest animal on the planet.  We watched it as it continually dove down (we assume to feed on the thick bands of small baitfish under the boat) and surfaced with that long conical blow…

Capt Dave reports very good fishing on the Viking Starship. We started out at the lighthouse where we mostly had large Porgies with a few jumbos mixed in and a handful of SeaBass. We then headed offshore and the first spot was loaded with smaller Seabass, so we moved on to another spot. It was much better there with a steady pick of SeaBass with some in the 4 to 5 lb range. We also had some Fluke, Porgies and Mackerel at that spot. The first place pool winner was Ramon Reynoso from Bronx, NY with a 3.1 lb Scup. The edible pool winner was Steven Thomas from Brooklyn, NY with a 4.7 lb SeaBass.