Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Full Moon Night Striped Bass – Viking Fivestar Capt Steven Jr reports a tough night with a ton of boat traffic all night. We had to work for them, but we managed 4 Big Striped Bass and some Blues for the anglers to take home. We have one spot left on the August 15th Full Moon trip.

Capt Carl reports a tough night aboard the Viking Starship. We had heavy boat traffic and really couldn’t get locked in, but we did manage a few beauties and some Bluefish. It was not what we were looking for on the Full Moon trip and we are hoping for better results on our next trip August 15th. James Panchookian of Bethpage took first place with a 36 lb Striped Bass. Blair Horning of Pennsylvania took second place with a 34 lb bass.

Capt Steven Jr reports nonstop action the whole afternoon keeping the rods bent. We had another load of Seabass with a nice mess of jumbos mixed in. A couple of guys had their limit of Seabass. We also had Porgies and a bunch of short Fluke in the mix. No pool this afternoon.

Capt Carl ran the Viking Starship today chartered by Hooks for Heroes with the E69/C28/BN16 gangs in honor of Michael Davidson who gave the supreme sacrifice in the line of duty. The guys enjpyed a picture perfect day on the water catching loads of giant SeaBass, lots of Fluke and some Scup. It was a great day fishing and an absolute honor for us to host such a great group of heroes! Thank you all for your service!

Montauk Jumbo Porgies & Knothead SeaBass Capt Dave reports good fishing on the Viking Stariper. We started out on the SeaBass grounds where it was not as good as yesterday, but everyone had their limits with some nice fat ones after picking thru the little fish. We headed back to the lighthouse after that and found mixed size Porgies and some SeaBass. We also had about a 1/2 dozen keeper fluke and a bunch of shorts. The first place pool winner was Mauricio Blanco with a 3.7 lb Scup. The edible pool winner was Wing Ng from NJ with a 6.1 lb Fluke.

1/2 Day Fishing AM Capt Steven Jr reports a trip with plenty of action. We had a beautiful day out on the water and we caught tons of great sized Seabass. The Fluke fishing was a little bit on the slow side today but everyone went home happy with nice keepers. The pool winner was Alyson Sena from Bayport, NY with a 3.8 lb Seabass.  

3 Day TNT – Viking Fivestar Capt Steven Jr reports an excellent trip off to the deep this weekend. We had 21 Yellow Fin up to 96lbs, a nice shot of Golden Tiles to 25lbs, a load of Blue Line Tiles to 14lbs, around 15 Barrel fish up to 20lbs and released a Blue fin that was around the 400-500lb mark. We also released a bunch of smaller yellows and had a nice White Marlin. We covered about 50 miles of the bank and had a Yellow Fin everywhere we went. Things are shaping up to be a good year offshore! We have a 48 hour open boat Tuna trip this weekend and we are looking for a couple more guys to make the trip a go! Fishing was good and the crew is looking forward to getting back out…

Sun July 14 Humpbacks Galore! Lunge-feeding, breaching, flipper slapping, and more Our first multiple humpback trip. Once again, we escaped the heat on land to find whales in water that was comfortably in the mid to upper 60’s. We began looking as soon as we traveled past Montauk light. Within a few minutes we found our first of 4 humpbacks. This one was intent on long feeding fives of prey near the surface and traveling due east without changing course. We got some nice … See More

1/2Day Fishing PM Captain Carl reports from the Viking Stariper that this afternoon’s trip continued the great fishing we had on the AM trip. We returned to the scene of the crime and bent the rods all afternoon. Lots of quality, large Sea Bass. Although we only had a couple of keeper Fluke all of our anglers this afternoon went home with BAGS of Sea Bass and Porgy fillets. This afternoon’s pool winner wasJerry DiNapoli from Smithtown NY with a 21 inch 3 pound Fluke

Captain Dave reports from the Viking Starship. We changed things up a little this trip and started off to the East closer to Block Island. Lots of quality, healthy Sea Bass. A few keeper Fluke and a few good Porgies were taken before we headed back West towards the Montauk Lighthouse. Porgies a little off the bite at the light, but anglers continued to bring in some sizable Sea Bass. The winner of the pool was BIlly Lau of Brooklyn NY with a 3 pound Scup. All are anglers arrived at the dock with plenty of fish to take home.

Captain Carl reports on the Viking Stariper. Excellent fishing today.  The captain, crew and anglers all enjoyed the almost perfect weather conditions.  Rods were bending all morning.  Loads of Sea Bass, almost everyone got their daily limit of keepers.  Some Porgies were brought aboard and a good amount of keeper Fluke.  First place in the pool was Kaitlin Cestaro with a 7.1 pound Fluke.  Second place in the pool went to Mike Capone  with a 3.2 pound Fluke. Both of these winners were from Medford, NY.

Capt. Carl reports a god trip that started off with tons of action. We had lots of Seabass and some small Flukes. Later on in the trip we found some nice keeper Flukes to fill in the missing. The pool winner was Vanessa Levy from Rockville Center, with a 2o inch and 2 1/2 lb…