Montauk Fishing Report

Half Day PM and McCulley Charter Captain Joe reports lots of action this afternoon with tons of shorts and a nice mix of fluke, porgies and some nice sea bass (all released unharmed). Captain Dave G also reports a good afternoon with the McCulley Charter. They had a boat load of fun and caught some nice fluke! The pool winner on the Half Day PM boat was Josh Chambers of Moorstown NJ with a 4.75 fluke, and on the McCulley Charter was Gregg Mattingly of Southampton with a 4lb fluke. . Half Day Fluke AM Captain Joey D reports an excellent morning of fluke fishing today aboard the Viking Star. It was a beautiful day with great fishing! Today’s first place pool winner was Kate Ethe of Amityville with a nice 5.4lb fluke and in second place was Josh Dratch…

ATTENTION ANGLERS – REGARDING LOCAL COD ON SUNDAY AT 3AM. PLEASE CHECK IN AT 2AM AND WE WILL LEAVE AT 3AM. EVEN THOUGH THE CLOCK SPRINGS FORWARD! LATEST SCHEDULE UPDATES!! Tomorrow’s weather is looking good! We are definitely sailing and still have space available for Local Cod, Sunday March 8th at 3am.The fare is $125. Give us a call at 631-668-5700 or book online www.vikingfleet.com We also have some space available for Friday March 13th’s – 2 Day Deep Water Challenge. Departing at 7pm Friday and returning Sunday March 15th at 10pm. The fare is $450.

LATEST SCHEDULE UPDATES!!! The 28 Hour Tile/Hake trip for Fri March 6th has been CANCELLED. The Local Cod trips for Fri March 6th has also been CANCELLED. We are going to sail Sunday March 8th for Local Cod at 3am. The fare is $125. We still have some space available, so give us a call at 631-668-5700 or book online www.vikingfleet.com

Half Day Fluke AM Captain Joe reports an okay morning of fishing today. We had fluke, sea bass and a few porgies in the mix. Today’s pool winner was Chip Hazlett of Commack with a 4.6lb fluke. Half Day Fluke PM Captain Joe reports a little bit of a slower afternoon than we have seen all season. We still managed to get a nice catch together of fluke, sea bass and a couple porgies. This afternoons pool winner was Paul Bocchino of Montauk with a 4lb fluke. Block Island Porgies and Sea Bass Captain Dave reports a very good day of fishing aboard the Viking Starship today. We had mostly nice sized porgies, some sea bass and some bluefish. Today’s first place pool winner was Mike from Jamaica Queens with a big 4.5lb porgy, and in second was Dane Shirley…

Half Day Fluke PM Captain Joe reports another excellent afternoon of fishing today. It was great action all afternoon with sea bass, porgies and lots of nice big fluke! Today’s pool winner was Betsey “Aunt Bee” Downey of Deer Park with a 9.1lb fluke. Block Island Jumbo Porgies and Sea Bass Captain Dave reports a great day of fishing today! It was a solid day from start to finish! Thankfully we were able to stay away from the dogs today and we sailed away with a really nice mix of porgies and sea bass. All in all it was a great day and we cant wait to go back out again tomorrow! Today’s first place winner was Scotland of Jersey City with a 3lb porgy, and in second was Chin of Chinatown with a 5lb bluefish.

Sunday Striper Special To top of our weekend, our new Sunday 5-10 eel trip was a dud.  For the first time this year we went fishless.  We hit every spot under the sun, not even a blue fish.  We did have a few bites, seemed like bass bites as eels came up in one piece, but the way it’s been lately, those chances needed to be maximized but weren’t.  It seems the new moon brought on a day bite again so hopefully as we get on the other side the stronger night tides will get them back on the feed.  Its 9/2, history doesn’t lie, the fall run is close and soon the lull will be over. Full Day Porgies and Sea Bass Capt Dave reports yet another good day out porgy fishing. Once again we had nice quality…

Sunset Stripers Capt Ant reports two nights in a row of slow fishing on the Sunset Jigging trip.  The bite has been off at the light for the past few days so we gave up on the jigs and tried eeling to entice some fish to bite.  There is so much bait around the lighthouse zone right now that even eels made no difference.  Both Sunday and Monday trips delivered 2 bass each trip with a few blues in the mix.  Could be our August summer doldrums are here, or could be that they are waiting for the moon to start feeding again.  Either way it’s been tough fishing.  Pool winners were:Kathleen Brophy Middletown, NY with a 26lbs Second Place went to Nick Puglisi, Westchester, with a 15lbs Half Day Fluke PM Capt Carl reports a great afternoon on the…

Half Day Fluke PM The afternoon fishing was on the slow side. Wind and tide made it tough. We managed to scratch together a small catch- a mix of sea bass, porgies ans fluke. Half Day Fluke AM Capt Ant reports a sensational fluke trip and summer bottom fishing trip.  We went where we have been going to start only to find every boat in Montauk combing the bottom.  We picked but not enough so we headed off to a new zone and it certainly paid off.  Large fat fluke, jumbo sea bass and monster porgy’s throughout a very long drift.  We wound up tallying 38 keeper fluke for 34 fares and did the majority in 3 drifts. Full Day Porgies and Sea Bass Fishing was a little slower than it has been due to the strong tides. When the…

Half Day Fluke PM Fishing was pretty tough this afternoon. We had wind against tide and the conditions were just too difficult. We managed a handful of keepers. The pool winner was Kenneth Heath from Elkton MD with a 5.75lbs fluke. Second place winner was Kyle Lett from Golden Bridge NY with a 5.1lbs fluke . Half Day Fluke AM Fishing was good this morning, reports Capt Joe from the Viking Starship. We had nice keeper fluke as well as some JUMBO sea bass mixed in. It was also a beautiful day out on the water. Matthew Angellilo from Burlington CT took the pool with a 6.7lb fluke and second place went to Bill Sullivan who had a 5.9lber. Full Day Porgies and Sea Bass Capt Dave reports that the bite was VERY GOOD again today. We lad all…

Sunset Stripers  Jigging Trip Capt Ant reports a solid night of fishing aboard our Sunset Striper Special. We had a decent amount of keepers and blues and even a fluke in the mix. Unfortunately our wind against tide drift made conditions difficult for a square drift we still managed to pick all trip. Pool winners were: Mr Scorzelli with a 17lb Second was a tie with Matitchine and Barvstein with a 16pounder Half Day Fluke PM Capt Ant reports an afternoon of Fluking for the ages!!!  We not only bailed keeper fluke, we bailed JUMBOS!!  Over 40 keepers were landed in 2 hours time. With mates Eric, Steve and Ant Jr, we came to a crew decision to dare to be different and leave the crowd behind, so we steamed off beyond our normal half day zone and were rewarded…