Viking Fleet Fishing Reports

Some photos from Sunday’s Block Island Blackfish/SeaBass/Cod trip sailing on the Viking Fivestar with Captain Steven Jr. These open boat trips are scheduled every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 5am-3pm this fall. Bookings can be made online or by calling (631) 668 – 5700. We are also available for private charter taking up 12 passengers!…

Captain Carl reports that Sunday nights trip was very good with some of the biggest squid we have seen yet! For the first half of the trip, every squid caught was XXL with double headers a’ plenty! The bait balls around the boat were amazing to see and the squid stayed with it all night,…

Captain JR reports another great Coxes Ledge trip onboard the Viking Star. The sea bass fishing was as good as it gets with lots of JUMBO knot head sea bass for everyone. The Cod were definitely a bit scarce today as we only found a few small ones. We also had a nice sprinkling of…

Capt Dave reports a tough day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. This mornings conditions were rough with strong wind and high seas making it tough to fish in some of our usual spots. Despite the poor conditions we did still struggle with the pick today with dogfish plaguing many of the drops. As…

Saturday night we had 2 boats sail for Squid to accommodate all of our anglers and Captain Steven Sr reports that the Viking Star saw a great first half of the trip with lots of big Squid and an “ink fest” all around the boat. Eventually things slowed down but the guys and girls who…

Capt Dave reports excellent fishing on the Viking Starship. Our first drop was mostly Sea Bass. We stayed there about an hour and a half until we had our fill. We put in a a few drops and found mostly Sea Bass. Searching for Porgies we found them to the east. It was a nice…

Capt JR reports a quality day of fishing onboard the Viking Star. The Sea Bass fishing was a bit of a sort today. But there were plenty of quality knot heads for everyone. Blackfishing was also a big improvement in both size and quantity as there were lots of nicer fish all around the boat….

Capt Joe reports good and consistent Squid fishing on the Viking Starlite. We saw bigger quality tubes than we have been seeing. There is some space available on Saturday nights trip. Get out here while it’s hot!! We sail at 7pm tonight. As of tomorrow, Sunday Nov 3 the trips will depart at 5:30pm and…

Happy Halloween! Capt Dave reports excellent fishing today on the Viking Starship. We had a solid mixed bag pick today with Porgies an SeaBass at every drop. We didn’t have anything very large today, but the pick was steady making for a very productive day of fishing off of Block Island today.  We did see…

Capt Joe reports a much better night of Squid Jigging last night on the Viking Starlite. We saw an improvement from Tuesday night’s trip and the guys who stuck at it managed to get 3/4 of a bucket. We also saw a lot of bigger squid compared to the previous night. Overall, a good night…

Capt Dave reports crazy good fishing again today on the Viking Starship! On our first drop we had straight Sea Bass up to 4 lbs and we found pretty much all we needed. We had to look around for the Porgies and the third spot was the charm. There were mostly big Porgies there with…

Capt JR reports a great day of fishing on the mighty Viking Star. Some deep rock piles provided excellent Sea Bass fishing as well as a decent pick of nice sized Blackfish and a few Cod. We ended the day on a shallower bank and found some pretty impressive Blackfishing. Some guys got their limit…