Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 6/10/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Feast of Famine! That’s what it is right now. Famine on the flats, and Feast on the beaches. That being said, it was a great week overall, with all but one day with old friends. The we more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 6/3/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Poor tides helped create a short work week, but the snooking was good early in the week. The week began on Monday with my old friends Stephen O’dell and John Cherry, down from Leesburg for a more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5/27/6 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a busy week filled with old friends and a couple of new folks. With increasingly better new moon tides, fishing seemed to improve as the week went along. The weather was overcast more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5/20/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey The fishing continued to be bloody hard this week. And, of course another big late season cold front was a factor, but at least it brought us some much needed rain. It might have even been more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5/20/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey The fishing continued to be bloody hard this week. And, of course another big late season cold front was a factor, but at least it brought us some much needed rain. It might have even been more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5/13/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey The week brought more late season cold fronts, yes, even a very little bit of rain. Well, some is better than none. The week was also shortened from five work days to three by illness, some more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 5/6/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a week of very poor tides. Because I always give my customers the prospects as I see them based upon tides, those tough tide days sometimes don’t book. That’s OK. There’s always plenty t more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - RERORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/29/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey The week was filled with old friends and customers, save for one. Although the tides were great, the fishing was for the most part very tough. Of course, another late season front was invol more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/22/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a week of horrible tides that grew worse as the week progressed. Wednesday and Thursday were unbooked largely because of the poor tides. Friday was booked by my old friend Jeff Steve more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 4/15/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey For the most part, the week was a weather blow out! It started last Saturday with passage of a big front, and roared right on through Thursday with winds in the 20's gusting to right at 30! The more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound