Super Strike Bullet Heavy Stubby Needlefish- 2 1/2 oz.  In the last two days my son Jon and I have landed good numbers of decent fish.  These have been mostly slots with even some over slots. We've been catching them on a Super Strike Bullet Heavy Stubby Needlefish.  It has been the only plug in our bags that will punch out a long distance in thes...

Capt Dave reports a tougher day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. Despite today being one of the better day condition wise than the past few days fishing was tough in the dirty water that was stirred up from the ground swell. We started off a bit closer to the island and had a […]

Capt Dave reports a pretty good day of fishing today in Block Island on the Viking Starship. This morning we started off anchored close to the island and had very good fishing with some very nice sized Porgies with a few SeaBass in the mix. We didn’t see many small fish today mostly everything that […]

Capt Dave reports a halfway decent day of fishing today in Block Island on the Viking Starship. Despite poor weather conditions with high winds we still got some nice fish today. This morning was the best pick of fish we had. At first drop we had pretty decent action with some nicer Porgies and a […]

The Yo-Zuri Hydro Pencil has been a hot producer in the last two evenings. In the beginning of the week jigs ruled the places I was fishing. Big bucktail jigs small bucks off a float and NLBN paddle tails all were red hot. But that place where jigs ruled suddenly went dry for me so I moved to a new location. I found fish and lots of them in my n...

Capt Dave reports a half-way decent day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We struggled a little bit with the weather today not being able to fish in most of the spots we wanted to but we did still get into some calmer areas that had good action. We saw some nice sized Porgies […]

Captain JR reports a successful TNT trip on the Viking Star. Despite the approaching weather we were able to squeeze in two days and a night out at the eastern canyons. The tile fishing wasn’t as hot and heavy as our last trip but still had a decent pick of tiles and other assorted bottom […]

The float and jig has been my best lure to use  this week. It has hooked big numbers of stripers from slots to over slots. The bait has arrived the stripers are on their tails and the surf is up! What could be better? Add to that some rough white water surf and you have the recipe for outstanding fishing. This has been a banner week for me with...

Capt Dave reports good fishing on the Viking Starship. We began the trip up close to Block Island and had a good mixed bag of quality Porgies and mixed size Sea Bass. When the tide stopped running hard we headed to the west side of the island and it was a bail job of really […]

Capt Dave reports a decent day on the Viking Starship. We explored close to the beach today and had very good fishing. There was real quality with big Porgies and Sea Bass. It was a tie for the pool today with 2 3/4 lb Porgies between Safet Kavaceic and Staton Mighty from Brooklyn. We will […]

Striper fishing lit up yesterday. Lots of bait has moved in and stripers of all sizes are on them.  Fall fishing has really taken a turn for the better.  Yesterday I found big schools of bait along the oceanfront moving about a quarter of a mile off shore.  A fall run was underway as big flocks of birds were diving and fish were breaking for bait....

Capt Dave reports a pretty decent day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We headed to the east right off the bat this morning and had some issues with the tide. That strong full moon tide was running hard and seemed to bring back in the small SeaBass as we had to pick through […]

This trip was a gift. The weather was warm like a summer’s day but with Labor Day two weeks behind us it felt better than usual. The mood on board was sweet and grateful. We found dolphins (Tamanend’s bottlenose) early and then spent time with two juvenile humpback whales within a few miles from shore. […]

Captain Carl reports another slower night on the Bass boat. We caught and released a couple GIANT Striped Bass in the 30-50 lb range and a few Blues showing definite signs of the Fall Run beginning. We are gonna give it another go tonight! The pool winner went to Doug Keller from Southampton NY.

Captain JR reports a much improved afternoon onboard the Viking Star. The change of tide turned the fluke bite on and we boated some beauties. We also had sea bass and porgies biting all trip keeping everyone busy at the rail. The first prize pool winner went to Eric Garcia from West Milford NY with […]

Capt Steven Sr. reports some nice action today on the Viking Starlite. Despite tough conditions with the wind off of Block Island the bites were plentiful. We saw a lot of small SeaBass and short Fluke but did find a good amount keeper SeaBass in the mix with only a couple Fluke to bring home. […]

Capt Dave reports another good day of fishing today on the Viking Starship. We decided to start off in a similar area as yesterday so we set offshore to the east. With windier conditions today we decided to drop anchor for our pick. The bite remained steady today on the SeaBass seeing some really large […]

Capt JR reports some action this morning on the Viking Star. With breezy conditions this morning we did not have the most favorable fishing. However we did see some action with decent size Seabass and Porgies. We bent rods on some small Fluke as well but unfortunately had no keepers. The pool winner went to […]

Captain JR reports a slight improvement in the local bass action. We had a few very nice stripers that were unfortunately much too big to keep. Also a few nice blues to bend the rods. Definitely not a slammer trip but a positive sign for the rapidly approaching fall run.

Here's one taken from the kayak last evening. There has been a big uptick in activity the last few days.  Fishing is improving.  Just maybe a fall run is underway.  We'll see if it continues. Here's what's been happening in the last few days: *Out in the kayak in the Bay I've landed 16 fish a combination of stripers and blues.  I saw a lot of bait...

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...