Capt Dave reports a productive day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. Today proved to be a slow and steady kind of day fishing never got red hot but the pick remained consistent throughout each drift. We started our morning close to Block Island and picked away at some bigger sized Porgies between medium […]

Captain JR reports a good day onboard the Viking Star. The first portion of the trip was definitely good with lots of nice togs coming over the rail. As the day progressed the conditions deteriorated a lot and the fishing definitely slowed to a pick. Not too bad overall though most guys had an easy […]

Captain Carl reports EXCELLENT Squid fishing again on the Viking Starlite. As soon as we anchored up. JUMBO Squid were flying and inking all around the boat with many many double headers! This savage bite lasted for a couple of hours and some anglers filled 5 gallon buckets in this time! The bite eventually slowed […]

Capt Dave reports another good day of fishing on the Viking Starship. We had a similar day of fishing to yesterday we started our morning tucked in close to the island and out of the wind and made a couple nice drifts up in the shallows picking away at some decent size Porgies mostly medium […]

Captain JR reports a very good start to our 2024 coxes ledge trips on the Viking Star. We had to do some scouting around but found some excellent knot head sea bass fishing. There were also some GIANT Scup in the mix to round out the catch. Only a few Cod onboard today but that […]

Capt Joe reports a tougher start to  last nights trip on the Viking Star. However everyone who managed to stick it out ended up getting on some really good action by the end of the trip. Our last hour was pretty much lock and load Squid fishing with some quality size tubes coming up. Most […]

Capt Dave reports excellent fishing on the Viking Starship. We started the trip up close to Block Island in the shallow water. There were all nice size Porgies. Mostly larges. We ventured offshore and found excellent Sea Bass fishing with really great action. The dogs were mostly non existent today making it much easier to […]

Capt JR reports a pretty good catch onboard the Viking Star today. We started out Sea Bass fishing and had a good pick most of the morning with a few drops having a healthy showing of knot head biscuits. The inshore Blackfish bite was a bit off but the tog sharpies had a few a […]

I landed this 30 inch striper last night after dark.  I have been getting some decent fish lately at night and all the action has come on the Slug-go.

Chub mackerel have been around in good numbers this week.  I've caught good numbers on a  3-inch NLBN paddle tail. Although we usually see these fish in September the chub mackerel are staging a late season show.  They have been around the oceanfront this week in good numbers. It's the first time I have seen them this year. These are easily reco...

Capt Dave reports a good day of fishing on the Viking Starship. We started out by Block Island in perfect conditions. There was wind against tide and we drifted 4 hours catching beautiful Porgies and mixed size Sea bass. We made a move outside to the deeper water by the windmills finding a handful of […]

Capt Joe reports another very good night of Squid Fishing last night. Many Jumbo Squid Tubes and plenty of them! We are sailing again tonight at 7PM! Come and get them!

Captain Dave reports a very good day on the Porgy and Sea Bass trip today and how about this weather! A little later in the day as the sun got really hot the bite slowed down a little but by then everyone had their limit of nice sized fish. First place in the pool was […]

Capt Dave reports excellent fishing today on the Viking Starship. We started off up close to Block Island this morning making some nice long drifts picking away some medium to large sized Porgies. We didn’t really say anything jumbo today but it was steady picking. There were a lot of little SeaBas in the mix […]

It is Prime Time for Fall Fishing in Montauk! Here at the Viking Fleet we have put together a great Fall Schedule targeting all sorts of species in Montauk and Block Island. See details below. Block Island Jumbo Porgies and Knothead Sea Bass: Sailing DAILY onboard the 144FT Viking Starship at 5AM Ultra Limited Blackfish […]

Captain Carl reports an EXCELLENT night of Squid Fishing on the Viking Starlite! As soon as we anchored up we started picking away at the squid and as the night progressed it just got better and better! Lots of big giant squid. They are here NOW so come and get them! We sail every night […]

Captain Dave reports a pretty alright day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We pretty much spent are day fishing up close to the island making drift after drift. Conditions were beautiful today and we saw a lot of action with some really nice sized Porgies and a few nice sized SeaBass. We did […]

Captain Carl reports another EXCELLENT 1/2 Day Jigging Trip on the Viking Star! We had Rod Bending Action with Striped Bass all morning! We had an easy boat limit of slot sized Stripers and we threw back a ton as well making for some arm-weary anglers! Stephen Talmage from East Hampton NY took the pool […]

Capt Joe reports a decent night of squid jigging on the Viking Starlite. The night started off pretty strong in shallow water and then the tide started to slack off and we lost the bite. We ended up making a move out into the deeper water and found a slow but steady pick to finish […]

Capt Steven Sr. reports a productive day of fishing today on the Viking Star. We ventured off to Block Island to target anything that would bite! We worked around some of Captain Steven’s secrets spots which brought one some nice action between Porgies SeaBass and even some nice Trigger fish in the mix. There were […]

Decked out and ready for a day of fishing  in the sun. I'm very cautious when out fishing in the sun. I take a lot of precautions since I am really prone to skin cancer.  In the last ten years I have had two basal cell carcinomas removed along with one squamous cell carcinoma. One of these was quite problematic and I had to have extensive recons...