This is one of many stripers and blues that I landed today in the Bay from the kayak. They were  chasing down schools of peanut bunker. Last evening/night I hit the oceanfront in a place where the tide and conditions were just right.  The only thing missing was bait.  I made a lot of casts and came away with one striper a schoolie along with a k...

Capt Steven Sr. reports a beautiful afternoon of fishing aboard the Viking Starlite. The weather could not be any better this afternoon which made for some great fishing conditions. With a smaller load aboard the second half of todays “half day” fishing we were able to boat even more keeper Fluke than this morning. We […]

Summer is still sizzling! While Labor Day weekend traditionally marks a time to celebrate the unofficial end of summer the CRESLI and Viking Fleet team was hard at work finding whales in the waters off Montauk. Reports of whales and dolphins had us searching an area to our east before heading west along the shoreline. […]

Capt Dave reports another great day of fishing on the Viking Starship. We started out the morning on the anchor where we sat for 2-2.5 hours and had all the Porgies we needed. Porgy fishing was steady for that whole drop with large and jumbos coming up all around the boat. after get our load […]

Capt Steven Sr. reports an action filled morning of fishing on the Viking Starlite. We started out with the biggest fleet of boats we’ve seen all summer probably over 50 boats around and still managed boat 7 nice sized keeper Fluke after picking through the small fish. We then worked our way out and found […]

Capt Mike reports steady afternoon of fishing on the Viking Star. We made our way around the Lighthouse and had some steady catching of all the target species such as Porgy Fluke and SeaBass. Fishing definitely has picked back up now that the water is clearing up from the large ground sweel we had a […]

Capt Mike reports a pretty good morning of fishing today on the Viking Star. We started the day off with a nice long drift with steady picking a mixed bag of porgy sea bass and keeper fluke. Slow a bit in the middle but had a nice last drift with plenty of porgy and sea […]

Capt Mike reports pretty steady fishing this afternoon on the Viking Star. There was a good Porgy bite with a few jumbo Porgies mixed in and several keeper Fluke!

Capt JR reports that we definitely had a tough day Fluke wise on the mighty Viking Starlite. We fished many different areas and covered a lot of ground but only found a few nice ones. We did find abundant numbers of big Sea Bass and easily had our boat limit. However the Fluke were a […]

Capt Dave reports good fishing on the Viking Starship. We anchored up to start the morning with a nice steady two hour window of mixed size Porgies. After that we headed offshore for Sea Bass and picked away at a lot of little ones but everyone had a couple of keepers. We stopped by the […]

Capt Mike reports a good afternoon on the Viking Star. It started off a little slow but picked up to steady catching. We had nice mixed bag of big Porgies and Sea Bass with double digit keeper Fluke! It was a nice day on the water! The pool winner was Brian Niehr from Bayshore NY […]

I landed this gator blue from the kayak this morning. Fishing in the Bay from boat or  kayak has been more consistent than the  oceanfront for stripers and blues. A lot will depend on if the water along the oceanfront clears up or not.  Those big hurricane waves that battered the coastline for the last several days have roiled up the water with sa...

Capt Dave reports good fishing on the Viking Starship. We started out anchored up east of the lighthouse. It was two hours of decent Porgy and Sea Bass fishing without much tide. Most of the Porgies were large sized. We went offshore in search of more Sea Bass. At the first spot we had mostly […]

Captain Carl reports rather sporty conditions this morning made for some tough fishing down the beach. We did have plenty of action keeping everyone busy but with mostly smaller fish and only a couple Porgies Sea Bass and KEEPER Fluke making it into the buckets. The wind has laid down now so we expect much […]

Capt Carl reports another absolutely FIN-OMINAL Full Moon Trip tonight on the Viking Star! From the first drift to the last we caught multiple 30 40 and 50 plus pounders all released safely! Once again all anglers onboard caught their PB Striped Bass. We also had some Gorilla smoker Bluefish! It was another night to […]

Bookended by dolphins and scintillated by a sunset! Although passengers boarded the Viking Starship in the rain yesterday the sun came out as soon as we set sail and stayed dry for the remainder of the trip. We began almost immediately with a group of inshore bottlenose dolphins which were feeding on small patches of […]

Capt J.R. reports a tough afternoon of fishing on the Viking Star. The large ground swell and the combination of wind made for more difficult conditions and slow fishing. We did however manage a decent pick of keeper fish with a few Fluke and a handful of SeaBass and Porgies. The pool winner this afternoon […]

Capt Dave reports a tough trip on the Viking Starship. There was a big ground swell with dirty water that made the fish not bite in our usual spots. After trying a few of these spots with no luck we headed offshore to cleaner water and had a decent pick of mostly large Porgies with […]

Capt JR reports a tough morning on the Viking Star. We had windy conditions to deal with but we did manage a few nice keeper Fluke. The pool winner was Dylan Herbert with a 4 lb Fluke.

Capt J.R. reports a good afternoon on the Viking Star. A rather large ground swell kept us from our recent hot spots however we found some pretty decent action in calmer local waters. Sea bass porgies and some KEEPER fluke made up the catch leaving us with some nice looking buckets at the end of […]

Most reports are coming from our local ocean beaches both east and west of the Shinnecock inlet. Striped bass are being taken on the...

My Slug-go was cut right near the hook on a big hit.  No question it was a big bluefish. I was out along the oceanfront two evenings ago.  I was working a 9-inch Slug-Go right before dark when I had a big hit that I thought was a good sized striper.  After missing the fish I retrieved the Slug only to find it had been cut right at the hook.  No...