Without a doubt exceptional days are becoming standard on Viking/CRESLI whale watching trips this season! Once again we found a large group of humpbacks approximately twelve miles from Montauk. We first encountered a group of three humpbacks feeding on dense shoals of bait (likely sand eels) midway through the water column. We know this because […]

Capt JR reports a productive morning of catching onboard the Viking Star. Sea bass Porgies and Fluke kept rods bent and our anglers busy at the rail. Lots of Sea Bass and Porgies filled the buckets with a few nice keeper to top off the bags of meat. The pool winner today went to Rob […]

Captain Mike Ricker reports good numbers of massive sea bass and many jumbo porgies and a half of dozen nice fluke. We had ourselves an excellent afternoon of mixed bag fishing! Our pool winner this afternoon was Ron Ocean with a 4-pound fluke.

Captain JR reports another great day of fishing on the Viking Starlite. Today was much like our last trip over to the island. The sea bass fishing was excellent with all anglers quickly getting a beautiful limit of knot head bass. The fluking was on par as we found some lovely flatties in the mix […]

Capt Steven Sr. reports a slower day of fishing today on the Viking Star. The drift was very slow this afternoon which made for difficult fishing but we did manage some action between Porgies and SeaBass. We had more Porgies this afternoon than we did this morning but the slow drift made it tough to […]

Captain JR reports a good day of Block Island fishing. The sea bass were literally in every area we fished. From small to XL they were very hungry. We easily kept a limit of very nice knot heads. The fluking was definitely a little off from what it was but we did have a decent […]

Capt Dave reports a productive day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. After a few days docked up after weather cancellations we were finally able to get back out and the Porgy bite was on. We did some fishing in our usual spots and had a good shot of medium to large Porgies with […]

Capt Steven Sr. reports an action filled morning on the Viking Star. We had a lot of action today between Porgies SeaBass and Fluke. We definitely had some smaller fish today than we’ve been seeing however we had a lot of action with fish coming up all around the boat. The pool winner went to […]

Captain Mike Ricker reports an afternoon of great fishing. The great bite continued from this morning with nice-sized sea bass and fluke. Despite the later pick up in the wind the crew caught loads of great fish. Our pool winner today was Bob Jimerez from Middletown NY with a 4.5-pound fluke.

Captain Mike reports an amazing day of fishing. The weather was fantastic with clear skies and little wind. There was a steady pickup of nice-sized porgies and sea bass. There was also a tremendous and consistent fluke bite throughout the trip. Today’s pool winner was Matt Wolfe from Commack NY with a 6.5-pound fluke.

The bucktail jig fished off a float was the hot lure yesterday.  The best pattern for me all summer was to hit the shore in rough and stormy conditions.  Those days would produce some resident fish. Yesterday was no different except for one exception. I found good numbers of fish for the first time this summer. It was really rough yesterday due...

Capt J.R. reports that we once again had to hide from the strong winds all afternoon on the Viking Star. However we did still manage a couple Porgies and SeaBass as well as some short Fluke. We did have some action just not much to keep. Overall we had some fish in the buckets despite […]

Capt Dave reports a very good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We started the morning anchored up off the lighthouse and had a really nice shot of large and jumbo sized Porgies for over an hour. When the strong tide started ripping we worked our way offshore pretty much straight south to […]

Capt JR reports that we hid from the strong winds all afternoon but found a few Porgies Fluke and Sea Bass to bend the rods. Not our best trip but a good time was had by all. A few fish in the buckets regardless of the unfavorable weather. The pool winner was Harry Egan from […]

Another trip another multispecies day  Well we keep on finding them.  The visibility was exceptional and once we got within 5 nautical miles of  the whale grounds we saw blows breaches and other activity easily.  The whales dolphins and pelagic birds were out there just as they have been now for weeks.  Some feeding near […]

Capt Carl reports a GREAT afternoon on the Viking Starlite. In addition to lots of Black Sea Bass and Porgies in the buckets we had some really nice JUMBO KEEPER Flukes as well! The first prize pool winner went to Bill Lippold from Orchard Park NY with a 7.5 lb Fluke. The second prize pool […]

Capt Dave reports a good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. First thing this morning fishing was excellent with a great shot of Porgies for about 30-45 minutes and the tide switched and the bite dropped out. We started to work our way to the east to escape the tide and had ok […]

Capt Carl reports a fine morning of 1/2 Day Family Fun Fishing on the Viking Starlite this morning. The water was a bit brown and dirty where we started off so we made a move and found some cleaner water and hungry fish! Black Sea Bass and Porgies made up the majority of the catch […]

What a great day! We first headed out towards Montauk Shoals to search for a young whale that was seen earlier in the morning during a fishing trip. The juvenile humpback was spotted alongside a small group of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin. As we waited for the whale to surface following a shallow dive we were […]

Capt Dave reports pretty good fishing today on the Viking Starship. Today’s conditions weren’t great with the strong tide and light wind so we did spend most our morning drifting off the lighthouse picking through some smaller stuff. We eventually zeroed in on some larger fish about mid-way through the trip and had our large […]

Capt Dave reports a pretty good day of fishing this Labor Day Monday on the Viking Starship. We started our morning off down the beach to get out of that New Moon tide and had some good action for about an hour. We moved on back to the lighthouse and had a nice mix both […]

Capt Mike reports a very nice morning of fishing on the Viking Starlite. The trip started off with a steady Porgy and Sea bass bite. We saw a lot of Porgies in the jumbo size. We did manage a couple keeper Fluke this morning although their seemed to be more short Fluke than keepers today. […]

Capt Dave reports another pretty good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We started our morning down the beach to get out of the new moon tide and had some pretty good action with a steady pick of mixed sized Porgies. We worked this area for a couple hours before venturing offshore and […]

Capt JR reports a very good day of catching onboard the Viking Starlite. We had spectacular sea bass fishing with a plethora of giant knot head bass everywhere we went. The fluking was also much improved as we found some very nice specimens to keep the nets busy. All happy anglers today! The pool winner […]

Capt Mike reports a lot of action this morning on the Viking Star. With a large capacity of kids aboard we saw plenty of children catching fish! We had a nice Fluke bite early with about a half dozen in the bucket right off the bat. As the trip continued we found a steady pick […]