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 […]

Capt JR reports a great start to the 2023 fall squid run. We had immediate action all around the boat with squid coming up one and two at a time. The action stayed consistent all night with many anglers having an excellent catch of some real hammer squirts. It seemed like the guys using the […]

The beachfront was running hot today with lots of slot fish in a mid day blitz.  I have been chasing stripers up and down beaches for the last three days. Today I set out on a long walk in search of them.  I saw a few birds working in the distance about a quarter mile from where I was so I went down the shore to investigate. As I got to the spot w...

Capt Dave reports very good fishing on the Viking Starship. We headed straight offshore and found plenty out there. After a couple of anchor drops and moving around we moved closer to the island and got in a few drifts. It was pretty much a steady pick of mixed bag fishing. There were mostly Porgy […]

Capt Dave reports a good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We started off our morning fishing close to the island we had a solid two drifts in the area with a lot of SeaBass action. In that shallower water we had a nice mix of SeaBass mostly on the large size but […]

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...

Here's a slot that was landed this afternoon on a Slug go. Fishing for slots has been very good. The water is cold the air is cold and there should not be big numbers of fish around RI waters.  But they are here and the biggest surprise of the spring is the abundant numbers of slot fish along both the oceanfront and in the Bay.  I can't remember...