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Half Day Fluke AM Captain Joe reports an amazing day of fishing with tons of action throughout the day. There were many keeper fluke. There was a bunch of keeper sea bass up to 4 lbs. The pool winner was mike nagle from Mahopac, NY with a 6.7lber. The 2nd place winner was Joe Miele from Cortlandt manor, NY with a 5.2lb fluke. Full day Porgies Captain Dave reports a very good day of fishing. Most of the catch was porgies with a few fluke and sea bass in the mix. We caught a 15 lb striped bass as well. The pool winner was Chris K from Astoria, NY with a 3lb porgy. Half Day Fluke PM Captain Joe reports that fluking was a little bit flower this afternoon than it was in the morning. There were loads of sea…

Full Day Montauk Porgies and Sea Bass Captain Dave reports an excellent day fishing today. We had lots of porgies, some sea bass, a few fluke and some blues. Our first place pool winner was Gil Parker of Montauk, NY with a 3.5lb porgy. Also caught today was a HUGE 46.5lb black drum by Fredrick “Motor” James Shay Jr. The fish was caught with his 7ft uglystick on 20 pound test line with a 2.0 gamakatsu hook aboard the Viking Star off of Ditch Plains in 30 ft of water. He is the New York State record holder for the largest codfish, and now prevails 30 years later with his 46.5lb Black Drum, which has NEVER been recorded in NY. Half Day Fluke PMCaptain Joe reports a difficult afternoon fishing. Between the strong breezes and the hard running tide, it…

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,…

Half Day Fluke PM Captain Joe reports a good afternoon of fishing today. Again we had mostly nice fluke, but we pulled up some more porgies and really nice sea bass. There is a full moon coming up, and we think that after the moon the porgy and sea bass bite will just continue to get better and better. Today’s first place pool winner was Paul Houstin of Lowdow UK with a 6.7 lb fluke and in second place was Allyson Matty of Plainview NY with a 6.1 lb fluke. Full Day Montauk Porgy and Sea Bass Captain Dave reports a slower day of fishing today. There was no wind and not much to the tide, so in the hotter weather it wasn’t as good fishing as yesterday. We still made out with a decent amount of fish. Today’s pool…

Flood Chaser Striped Bass Capt Ant reports that we grinded out a catch last night on Flood Chaser Bass, but it was grueling. It seemed every drift started with a fish and followed with a dud. the elbow area was overtaken with gorilla blues and after having only one bass where we bailed them on Thursday, we moved on. Next spot we had one then three, then 0, 0, 0… We tried about 7 other rocks and again 1 here 1 there… On our last drop we had a beauty, the pool winner, a MOO COW LINESIDER caught by Donna Dersch from Syosset, NY. It weighed in at 38lb 17oz! JB Breitstone from Long Beach NY took second place with a 30lb 7oz striper. Overall we caught a fillet a fare. Mike Sadowski had his limit to 20lbs. Half Day…

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…

Half Day Fluke AM Captain Joe reports an excellent morning of fishing today! We had fluke up to 10lbs!! Also some sea bass up to 4.5lbs. We had a great morning, everyone caught fish and had a wonderful time! Today’s first place winner was Ramon Thomas of Mastic NY with his JUMBO 9.9lb fluke! And second place went to Henry Licata of Woodside NY with a 4.5lb sea bass. Full Day Porgies Captain Dave reports that fishing was slow today. Many sea bass were caught but most were small in size. We had sea bass up to 4lbs. Most people limited out on sea bass. The porgy fishing was very slow but the ones that were caught were of the largest variety. We caught 4 keeper fluke and a striped bass. The porgy pool winner was Benjamin Bernard from Queens,…

Half Day Fluke PMCaptain Joe reports another great afternoon of fluke fishing! There was tons of action with fluke and scup and we also saw some really nice sea bass (all released unharmed) but we will have to wait until tomorrow to bring those beauties home! Michele Wisch of Stanford CT took the pool with her 4.5lb fluke! Full Day Montauk Porgies Captain Dave reports an okay day of fishing today. It was a little slow in the morning, but picked up a bit in the afternoon with a couple fluke, some bluefish and some porgies. We also had a handful of sea bass (all released unharmed). Just a reminder- Sea Bass opens tomorrow July 10 in NY!!! So make sure you are here for the first day! Alfredo Olivo Orokn of Brooklyn took the pool with his 3.5lb porgy….