A Day with Ocearch off Montauk

I spent two days aboard the M/V Ocearch in mid August looking to tag young Great White Sharks, here is part I from Montauk.  I will follow-up with part…

Montauk CRESLI Whale Watch Summary 8-13 and 8-20-17

Editors note: Between two local Whale trips, Dr. Artie Kopelman also squeezed in a 3 day trip to the Great South Channel last week.  In an effort to ca…

Montauk CRESLI Whale Watch Summary 8-6-17

By Dr. Artie Kopelman 15 Humpbacks!! 100 Bottlenose Dolphins Our streak of finding whales on the CRESLI Viking Fleet trips out of Montauk continu…

Montauk CRESLI Whale Watch Summary July 23, 2017

Editors Note: Dr. Kopelman had a busy week of Whale Watching last week with a two-day trip to the Great South Channel (a deepwater passage between Nant…

Montauk CRESLI Whale Watch Summary July 16, 2017

By Dr. Artie Kopelman Another great whale watch trip last week.  Humpbacks, bottlenose dolphins, fin whale, and more! We started the day with a p…

Montauk CRESLI Whale Watch Summary 7-9-2017

By Dr. Artie Kopelman The CRESLI/Viking Fleet Montauk whale watch of 7/9/17 was an amazing trip, even better than last week's. We saw 11 fin whales, …

Montauk Whale Watch starts the 2017 season in spectacular fashion

By Dr. Artie Kopelman Things started slowly, with little action until we saw the Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) about 16 miles out. Shortly thereafter,…

20 Photos: Fishing off Montauk

By Mike Busch A friend got some reports about some inshore tuna and whales off Montauk and invited me to see if we could find them on Saturday. I…

Best of the Long Island Sun Chasers 5-19-17

By Mike Busch Another wild week of weather on Long Island, starting out with a coastal storm and cool temps on Saturday and ending the week with nea…

Best of The Long Island Sun Chasers 3-3-2017

By Mike Busch I was in Florida for most of the last week so don't really have a feel for what was happening on the Island.  From what I have heard a…