Capt. Carl reports another great afternoon of weather and fishing! It was another action packed afternoon keeping all anglers busy filling their buckets with Giant Porgies Beautiful Black Sea Bass and a couple nice KEEPER Flukes as well. Great fun and fresh fish for everyone! The pool winner went to Robert Rosenthal from Mount Kisco […]

Capt Dave reports a very productive day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We started our morning off with an anchor drop off the lighthouse Porgy fishing was excellent to start and we were able to work this area for an hour or so before making a move as the smaller fish rolled in. […]

Captain Carl reports beautiful weather and excellent fishing on this mornings half day trip! We had all the usual suspects of Giant Porgies Knothead Sea Bass and quite a few KEEPER Flukes filling our anglers buckets! The action was solid and everyone onboard is going home with fresh fish for dinner! The first prize pool […]

Summer may be winding down but the thrill of a CRESLI/Viking whale watch is certainly not! What a day we had yesterday on the Viking Starship: it began with a small group of Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins swimming close to shore. We spent a bit of time with them ensuring everyone had a good look before […]

Capt Mike reports non-stop stop rod bending action all afternoon on the Viking Star! Black Sea Bass were certainly the stars of the trip this afternoon with most anglers landing a couple keeper each making for a lot of Bass in the buckets. The Porgy bite did seem to settle down from this morning and […]

Another spectacular whale watch trip on the Viking Star! While we Expecting to go offshore to find the whales that were been seen on Wednesday Dr. Kopelman and several volunteers saw humpback whales close to shore whales from the Overlook Beach on Old Montauk Highway on their way out to see to the ship. These […]

Capt Dave reports excellent Porgy fishing today on the Viking Starship. This morning the bite started off very strong as we anchored up just off the lighthouse. We picked away at a lot of fish for a couple hours all sized small to large but mostly on the medium to large side. The action this […]

Capt Mike reports steady action from the get-go today on the Viking Star. We had jumbo Porgies and big Sea bass through out the morning. We managed to pick up a couple Fluke late to top off everyones buckets. Overall a beautiful morning out on the water. The pool winner was Giuseppe Demarinis from Westchester […]

Small bonito were harassing small bait  yesterday. They have been popping up here and there along the oceanfront where bait shows up. Yesterday for the first time I saw lots of bait.  From my vantage point I could see multiple schools of bait way out being harassed by birds from the top and predators from below.  It was small bait which I suspec...

Capt JR reports a good afternoon of fishing onboard the Viking Star. We found a healthy pick of Sea Bass Porgies and Fluke to keep us busy all trip. Everyone had no trouble throwing fish in their buckets with several nice keeper Fluke to round out the catch. The pool winner was Elizabeth Gurtowski fromHuntington […]

The magic continues! It was another phenomenal day of whale watching aboard the Viking Starship as we headed south to find a very active group of approximately eleven humpback whales. We immediately encountered a tail-throwing flipper-slapping rolling-over calf with five to six adults in near proximity and a few more farther out. The adults were […...

Capt Dave reports a very good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We had good fishing right from the get-go as we made our first anchor drop that lasted for about 2 hours or a nice steady pick of Porgies and a few SeaBass. We had mixed sized fish around medium and large […]

Capt JR reports a delight morning of catching on the Viking Star. Anglers were busy all trip landing Sea Bass Porgies and Fluke. Lots of delicious Sea Bass and Porgies made it into the buckets along with a few keeper Fluke. A good time was had by all. The first place pool winner was Steven […]

Capt Mike reports an okay trip on the Viking Star. Wind and tide were not in our favor this afternoon. Fishing picked up towards the end of the trip with nice Porgies and Sea Bass in the buckets. The pool winner was Shane Grad from Chicago IL with a 3 lb Sea Bass.

Capt JR reports a pretty good day on the Viking Starlite. The Sea Bass fishing was once again as good as it gets with everyone easily getting their limit of big beautiful knot heads. However the Fluke bite was definitely way off. Maybe they need some time to recover after the giant ground swell the […]

Captain Dave reports another great day of fishing—although a bit windy the conditions were almost perfect.  The trip was off to a great start anchored near the lighthouse with a great picking of mix-sized porgies with a handful of nice large ones. Later the trip headed towards Block Island where they caught several nice-sized sea […]

Captain Mike Ricker reports that despite the windy conditions our crew still found a few places to drift with good numbers of jumbo porgies and giant sea bass. We had many short flukes towards the end and a couple of keepers. Our pool winner today was Maris Perez from East Northport NY with a 4-pound […]

Once again we headed out to the area where we have been seeing whales for several weeks. We found them again! 10-12 humpback whales including moms and calves. While we are still working on identifying some of the humpbacks we found several that we’ve seen since early July. On this trip the calves and moms […]

I found good numbers of stripers yesterday evening in some white water. This one was taken on a large bucktail jig with a pink jig strip added.  I feel like the fishing is perking up slightly. I've been seeing some micro bait here and there especially in the backwaters in the last week.  I even found some fish breaking a couple of nights back.  Ye...

Captain JR reports a windy morning of fishing onboard the Viking Star. Despite the conditions we found some shelter and had an enjoyable morning of catching SeaBass Porgies and Fluke. We even boated a few nice KEEPER Fluke to round out the catch. Definitely not a bad morning.The pool winner was Gavin Latini from Plainview […]

Capt Dave reports a very good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. It was good consistent fishing from start to finish today with fish at every drop. We did make about 3-4 drops today. We definitely saw an influx of Seabass today with more anglers pulling up keeper SeaBass than Porgies. We had […]

Captain Dave report another great day of Porgy fishing on the Viking Starship today. We saw a lot of action today between Porgies and SeaBass with some beautiful size to each. We had pretty equal showings of Porgies and SeaBass at each drop neither really biting more than the other. We also had a bunch […]

Capt JR reports another fine day of catching out at Coxes Ledge onboard the Viking Star. The Sea Bass fishing continues to be red hot with everyone having their limit of jumbo knot head bass. We did have a few more Cod today with some nice green ones in the mix. We also had a […]

Capt Dave reports great fishing today on the Viking Starship. We started off on a wreck and had big beautiful Sea Bass and nice size Porgies. There was real quality there. When it slowed down we moved around looking for a good spot. There were plenty of bites with smaller fish. We finally ended up […]

The SQUID ARE STILL HERE! *** NEW TRIP ADDED*** Captain Carl was very happy to report that the Giant Montauk Squid are still here! We’ve had quite a few days of stiff winds keeping us away from the Squid Grounds but we did sail Saturday night and it was still windy but we did see […]