Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/23/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a great week of renewing old friendships, and making new ones. I wound up with four trips for the week instead of five, and only one was with new folks. The fishing was pretty good f more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 7/16/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a short workweek this week, with only trips run. They were fun trips, though, with new friends and old. First up was David Boyd, an MAI appraiser from Palm Beach Gardens whom I’ve talke more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 7/9/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey I had a four day work week, that proved to be four days spent with some of the nicest folks on the planet. First up was my old friend John Hitt. We had a very early tide and met at John's doc more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 7/2/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was another active weather week, and a week of mostly poor tides. Our weather pattern reversed because of a cold front sagging down just to our north, giving us onshore breezes and night and e more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 6/25/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was another week of rainy weather. What’s new? We had a freak low pressure front sag down over the middle of the state and lay there for the first part of the week, and although it’s moved i more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 6/18/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It's a short report this week. The beginning of the week saw very poor tides that are not good for fishing. We're also beginning the summer slow down. The heat is here. We've got a big proble more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 6/11/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It’s Friday, June 10, as I sit here house-bound writing this report. The week began with great fishing for the first couple of days, and then slowed because of poor tides the next two days, more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 6/4/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey A wet butt, and a hungry gut! I read a book by that title a few years ago, and the main premise of that book was that if you live your life as a fishing guide/commercial fisherman, you'll more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5/28/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a great week full of old friends and great people, marred only by a couple of days of big wind and a schedule screwup. First up on Monday were Bill Hudson, his son Mike, and his gran more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDIGN 5/21/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey Fishing this week was not easy. Although we had tides with good height, they were slow tides without much strength. In our area, a tide that only moves a foot over a six hour period, is a s more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound