Captain JR reports a good day onboard the Viking Star. We had plenty of action most the morning with some quality togs coming over the rail. It definitely got a bit inconvenient trying to fish in the afternoon wind but those who stuck with it ended up with a quality catch. Another day with real […]

There has been a glut of schoolies along the RI oceanfront in the last couple of weeks. Here is one of many that I landed this afternoon. All year I have been writing on this blog about the lack of schoolies. The poor Young of the Year Indexes from Chesapeake Bay a barometer of spawning success has been poor in the last five years. That has fuel...

Captain JR reports another fine day of Coxes Ledge fishing aboard the Viking Star. The sea bass fishing is still red hot with jumbo knot heads for everyone. Jigs or bait both performed excellent today. Not a great showing of cod with just a few smaller ones captured. However the trips have been outstanding and […]

Capt Dave reports a very good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We had some excellent action on the boat today with an all around mixed bag pick of fish. In the areas that were filled with mostly Seabass the past couple days we saw a lot of Porgies today. Our morning started […]

Captain Joe reports some pretty decent action last night on the Viking Starlite. We didn’t have any crazy blitzes last night but overall we had good consistent Squid fishing. The guys who stuck at it managed to put a good bucket together with some xxl tubes. We will be sailing Friday Saturday and Sunday this […]

Capt Dave reports good fishing on the Viking Starship today. We found the Sea Bass first and they came up good but the dogs were there being a nuisance. In the deeper water we found the Porgies with some Sea Bass Bluefish and Mackerel in the mix. The pool winner was Tooker from Harlem NY […]

Captain JR reports an excellent trip onboard the Viking Star. We had very good fishing all day with quality fish coming up all over. Guys easily had their limit with some very LARGE togs. The first prize pool winner today went to Michael Jung from Freeport NY with a 9.6 lb Blackfish. We had some […]

Capt Dave reports a very good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We had about 3 drops today with a nice steady pick of mixed nice Porgies and SeaBass. It wasn’t quite a bail job today but the pick was consistent with fish at every drop. We definitely stayed away from the dogs […]

Some photos from Sunday’s Block Island Blackfish/SeaBass/Cod trip sailing on the Viking Fivestar with Captain Steven Jr. These open boat trips are scheduled every Friday Saturday and Sunday from 5am-3pm this fall. Bookings can be made online or by calling (631) 668 – 5700. We are also available for private charter taking up 12 passengers! […]

Captain Carl reports that Sunday nights trip was very good with some of the biggest squid we have seen yet! For the first half of the trip every squid caught was XXL with double headers a’ plenty! The bait balls around the boat were amazing to see and the squid stayed with it all night […]

I landed this weakfish or squeteague a couple of nights ago.  It's been decades since I've caught one. I also saw others caught. Yes they are around. This one was caught on a NLBN paddle tail.

Captain JR reports another great Coxes Ledge trip onboard the Viking Star. The sea bass fishing was as good as it gets with lots of JUMBO knot head sea bass for everyone. The Cod were definitely a bit scarce today as we only found a few small ones. We also had a nice sprinkling of […]

Capt Dave reports a tough day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. This mornings conditions were rough with strong wind and high seas making it tough to fish in some of our usual spots. Despite the poor conditions we did still struggle with the pick today with dogfish plaguing many of the drops. As […]

Saturday night we had 2 boats sail for Squid to accommodate all of our anglers and Captain Steven Sr reports that the Viking Star saw a great first half of the trip with lots of big Squid and an “ink fest” all around the boat. Eventually things slowed down but the guys and girls who […]

This was the hot ticket in the last two days when stripers were feeding on peanut bunker. The glut of small stripers continues unabated.  I hit a massive blitz of them today.  There seemed to be fish everywhere in front of me as big schools of stripers had peanut bunker pinned up against the shore.  Birds everywhere fish busting and frenzied bai...

Capt Dave reports excellent fishing on the Viking Starship. Our first drop was mostly Sea Bass. We stayed there about an hour and a half until we had our fill. We put in a a few drops and found mostly Sea Bass. Searching for Porgies we found them to the east. It was a nice […]

Capt JR reports a quality day of fishing onboard the Viking Star. The Sea Bass fishing was a bit of a sort today. But there were plenty of quality knot heads for everyone. Blackfishing was also a big improvement in both size and quantity as there were lots of nicer fish all around the boat. […]

Capt Joe reports good and consistent Squid fishing on the Viking Starlite. We saw bigger quality tubes than we have been seeing. There is some space available on Saturday nights trip. Get out here while it’s hot!! We sail at 7pm tonight. As of tomorrow Sunday Nov 3 the trips will depart at 5:30pm and […]

Happy Halloween! Capt Dave reports excellent fishing today on the Viking Starship. We had a solid mixed bag pick today with Porgies an SeaBass at every drop. We didn’t have anything very large today but the pick was steady making for a very productive day of fishing off of Block Island today.  We did see […]

Capt Joe reports a much better night of Squid Jigging last night on the Viking Starlite. We saw an improvement from Tuesday night’s trip and the guys who stuck at it managed to get 3/4 of a bucket. We also saw a lot of bigger squid compared to the previous night. Overall a good night […]

It's the first one from the oceanfront for me this year. Expect good numbers of them in the coming week. I landed my first striper of the year from the oceanfront today a fish I would call a scout.  In striper fishing lingo a scout is one of the early arrivals that makes it's way ahead of the main body of fish.  I suspect this was a scout becaus...