Capt Carl reports another very very good night on the Squid Boat! We started catching them as soon as we anchored up. For the first half of the trip it was good for some anglers but not so good for others. The guys who were dialed in caught steadily. So as the night progressed and […]

And I found big numbers of fish today. They are not in all the locations along the south shore but with a little looking you might just find a blitz underway.  The fish are really on the move!

Capt Dave reports an excellent day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. Fishing was red hot today probably some of the best fishing we’ve had in a while. A whole new body of fish seemed to have moved in today with non-stop action biting at all tides. We hugged in close to the island […]

Capt JR reports another solid day of sea bass fishing on the Viking Star. We tried some new areas and found lots of hungry XL Sea Bass waiting for us. There were also a few Cod in the mix to spice up the drops. Blackfishing today was definitely a huge improvement overall with lots of […]

Capt Carl is happy to report the that the Squid Bite Beat Goes On! It was a beautiful warm moonlit night and a steady bite as well as soon as we anchored up. Some guys who were really dialed in caught them all night long while others caught during the flurries. Thankfully we had plenty […]

Capt Dave reports a pretty good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. Conditions were similar to yesterday so we started off our morning inshore and drifted with the tide with lots of bites. We milled our way through lots of little fish mostly SeaBass but had a nice little shot of decent sized […]

Attention Viking Angers! A variety of trips for Everyone!! Blackfish Haven Trip Added! We have adjusted the Blackfish and Coxes Ledge trips on the Viking Star a bit for the fall schedule. There will now be two Coxes Ledge Cod & Sea Bass trips. Departures are Sunday and Tuesday at 5AM. The return is 4PM. […]

The bait was small today and the stripers were plentiful and fussy. It was a perfect set-up for a 3 inch NLBN (No Live Bait Needed) paddle tail.  And it worked like a charm!

I had a frustrating day of it yesterday.  For hours I watched masses of birds diving onto bait as predators attacked from below (see video below).  This was happening in multiple spots. And it was all happening out of casting range. This is a pattern that I've seen very often this fall.  A lot of the bait and migrating stripers are tracking well...

Capt JR reports a decent start to the 2023 local black fish/sea bass trips. We had a pick of quality blackfish for the beginning of trip with a few nice sea bass mixed in. We moved a little farther offshore and found better sea bass fishing with some real jumbos coming over the rail. All […]

Capt Dave reports a pretty decent day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. This morning we hugged close to the island and had slow and steady pick of medium and large sized Porgies and Sea Bass. When the weather straightened out we shot out offshore to continue our pick of fish with some Blackfish […]

Thur Oct 19 – Block Island Jumbo Porgies & Knothead Sea Bass Capt Dave reports a great day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. The fishing offshore yesterday wasn’t great so we tried some fishing inshore and the bite was on. We stayed in closer to the island in the shallower water and picked […]

Capt Carl reports an excellent night of Squid fishing on the Viking Starlite. Lots of Jumbo Squid Tubes filled up buckets around the boat. We started catching as soon as we anchored up and the bite quickly turned non-stop! We caught them on the bottom on the surface and everywhere in between. We can’t wait […]

Capt Dave reports an okay day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. The weather today could not be any better for fishing but unfortunately the fish bite was slow. We found that the fish were biting better on the drifts rather than on anchor so we spent most our day drifting. We had a […]

Capt JR reports an excellent trip onboard the Viking Star. Things started out a little slow but when we found the fish it was lock and load! Big beautiful Cod and Sea bass made up a majority of the catch. However we boated a fine catch of pollock jumbo cunners and a few hub cap […]

Yesterday's rainbow was a stunner. Unfortunately there was no pot of gold and no fish at the end of the rainbow!

Capt Dave reports a steady day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. Fishing today was lot better than it’s been at no point was fishing red hot but the bite was constant which made for a steady pick. We had some really nice quality fish today with a lot larger sizes than we have […]

Capt Carl reports another good night of Squid fishing. It was not as good as Saturday nights trip but we did pick away all night. The wind was a bit stiff and it was not a calm night but our anglers had fun catching delicious squid and also quite a few mackerel (using Sabiki rigs). […]

The future of our striped bass fishery took a big hit in the recent release of the 2023 Young of the Year survey in Chesapeake Bay.  Stripers spawn in the Chesapeake and this index is a measure of the the spawning success or failure.  This year's index was an abysmal 1.0 one of the worst spawning years ever (it was.89 in 2012). This comes on the...

Capt Dave reports a rough day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. The strong wind today made for some difficult fishing to get out of the gusts we tucked ourselves in close to the island this morning and picked through a lot of little fish. As the day progressed and the wind eased up […]

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

The Yo-Zuri Hydro Pencil has been  the hot plug in the last week The good times just keep rolling for me with big numbers of slots on just about a nightly basis.  The hottest plug of the week has been a Yo-Zuri Hydro Pencil in a white color.  This looks like a Jumpin' Minnow on steroids.  It casts great into the wind and has a swagger on the ret...