Montauk Fishing Report

Block  Island Flood Chaser Striped Bass- CHECK OUT OUR UPDATED MOO COWNTER! Capt Ant reports a Behemoth of a night at the Island. The first 2 hours we starved for a drift and caught nothing. We left our normal spot and hit another BANG! We found’em and BIG! George Jehn nailed a 45.7lber. We drilled out a pick and had about 10 fish over the 30lb mark. We went back to our normal spot for a few and MOOO- Joseph Patrone hooked into a Goliath. He fought it perfectly and a stellar job by both Eric and Joey- landing our LARGEST OF THE YEAR. It pushed our boat scale past its 50lb limit. When we arrived at the dock we put it on the official scale- a 50.06lb BEHEMOTH! Congrats Joe and nice Viking hat. You are our new leader…

Block Island Behemoth Trophy Hunt 2013 Viking MOO COWNTER Capt. Ant has one simple word for last nights Behemoth Bass trip to Block……..MOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! It was sick, plain and “udderly” simple as our first 10 drifts produced 5, yes 5 Block Island Behemoth Bass over 40lbs.  By no means was it a bloodbath, however this trip is about the Trophy of a lifetime and there were quite a few happy herders on the Starship when we hit the dock at 4a.  We tried a different rock pile last night and it paid off big time.  I still can’t believe Joe “Cowmis” Khamis.  Joe was last years Derby winner and all he has done this year is continued his slaughter of Moo Cow Linesiders.  Not one, not two, but three fish over 30lbs tonight. Not one, but 2 fish over 46lbs tonight….

Block Island Behemoth Trip Capt. Ant reports an excellent fishing trip across the pond on Friday night.  We started the night with slack tide and found Behemoths immediately except they were Behemoth Bluefish and they were stacked solid.  The first hour was spent with rods bent in half with the 15-18lb Choppers…just like bluefishing of old.  Once we started drifting around 1.4 knots we had our first two bass of the night, the first one would turn out to be the pool winning Moo Cow and a true Behemoth at 43.2lbs caught by Justin Cannarelli of Center Moriches.  Once we got over 2 kts, the bite died other than a 29″ fish by George “Pulitzer” Jehn.  We made a wiggle and found a mix of bass and blues, this piece yielded a 29.6lber among other 15-25lb fish.  But again the…

Sunset Stripers Jigging Trip captain Ant reports another spectacular Sunset Jigging trip.  We caught all Montauk’s summer bounty last night, Bass, Blues, Sea Bass, Scup and Fluke and witness one of the most colorful sunset’s with red in the sky and red all over the deck!!!  We started with 3 keeper bass on our first 2 drifts along with some monster blues.  We picked mostly blues and scup in the middle of the tide but finished strong with our last 3 drifts producing 10 more keeper bass and another 10 shorties along with some more choppers. The pool winner Michael Lyons, Selden NY with a 21lber Second place went to Mr Al Goffredo from Port Jefferson Station, NY with a 19lbs Half Day Fishing PM Capt Ant reports difficult conditions and slow fishing in the afternoon. Big swell on against…

Half Day Fluke PM We had ok fishing in the afternoon due to conditions but we still managed to put some fish on the boat. Terri Coleman from Holbrook NY took the pool with a 5.25lb fluke and the Galletta family had a total of 3 keepers! Good job Steve and Chris! Full Day Montauk Porgies and Sea Bass Captain Dave reports a good day of fishing today. There were plenty of porgies around, but we also had a few fluke. Mostly everyone had their limit with fish up to 3.5 lbs! Today’s first place pool winner was Ronnie Pringle of Bellport, NY with a 3.5 porgy and in second was Valentine Rodriguez of Puerto Rico with a 4.5lb fluke. Half Day Fluke AM Captain Steven Sr reports a windy morning on water. The wind got better as the day…

Block Island Behemoth Striped Bass Friday July 19 Block Island Behemoth Bass   Captain Ant reports a Bassacre over at the Island last night and this morning.  From start to finish it was multi fish drifts and ended the night totaling 52 keeper BI Bass.  We had to change zone…s due to last nights breeze and a moon ebb tide and we found perfect drifting conditions, and catching conditions.  Several fares had their limit including our good friend Rodney from Delaware, Frank Stoutenberg, Mike Sadowski, John Rewinski, just to name a few. Joe Khamis, the Derby winner two years ago did his best to get atop the leader board but only managed a 38.2lb Block Island Behemoth.  Most fish were in the 20lb class last night, still quality but plenty of quantity along with it.  Here are a few photos,…

Night Striped Bass Captain Ant reports a very good night of Bassing overall once we found the where the Moo Cows were grazing.  We started at our jigging spot but had to deal with the slack tide.  We managed a few keepers but double the amount of shorts so we MOOOved on after about an hour of combing.  The next spot produced 1, but a larger one.  Next drift none, we MOOOved on.  Finally we had a 2 fish drift…we weren’t MOOOVING.  We drilled it out for the rest of the night with 1 or 2 a drift but all slobs.  We totaled 6 fish in the 30’s including pool winner Chris Hunter from MOOOntauk with a 38.1lber.  Chris “Cool Hand” Luke had a 36.7.  And then there were the young ladies…14 Year old Jenna Fusco nailed a 36.6lber and…

Viking Fivestar 48 Hour Offshore Report We just returned from our first trip to the edge this year looking for the pelagic species. Overall a slow go this time out, the water just broke the 70 degree mark out there last week and had signs of life around but not much as far as tunas. The first day trolling only produced 1 small yellow fin a mahi a couple skip jacks and a big blue marlin estimated around the 400lb mark. The Marlin put a good show on for us jumping over a dozen time coming closer to the boat every time. Come night fall we had tons of squid and dolphins around the boat for the better part of the night but only had a boarder line keeper mako which we released and a few slashed squid baits from…

Block Island Behemoth Trophy Hunt- UPDATED REPORT We got to our honey hole with a trickle of flood tide, but plenty of breeze left to help move the Starship.  After about 10 passes all around the rock, we had a whole lot of nothing to show for it.  No bait, not tide, no fish.  We moved on from there and explored a couple different areas but again, even when marking fish, they just would not bite.  We finally got a drift, around 1.2 kts so we went back to the “Rock”.  Drifting due east we got our first bite, then second, then third.  3 fish, 3 slobs feeding on the slow moving water. Every fish was green as could be.  Danny Wes had the largest at 48lb 8 oz and I swear it fought with the energy of a schoolie…

Thursday July 4 Captain Ant reports an OUTSTANDING night of bassing.  We caught consistently the entire night starting with jigging 18-25lb bass in the black fog.  It wasn’t a slam but each drift produced 1-3 keepers on the jigs, and these fish were green giving the angers a fight to remember.  With the fog at hand it got dark quick so we switched to the eels and picked the rest of the night with decent size fish.  We had a few anglers catch their limit and/or catch their first bass ever.  James and James (dad and son) whacked the two biggest fish of the night with younger James taking home the pool. Just a reminder, we head off to Block Island tonight on the overnight Behemoth Hunt and have two trips scheduled for tomorrow night with the Flood Chaser leaving…