Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/11/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Talk about a windy week! The ides of March are upon us with a vengeance! I hit the water Tuesday morning before 6 AM. The wind was howling out of the northwest at a good 25 MPH, and there more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 3/4/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey The snook are turning on! It was a great week of snooking, and the average keeper size my customers landed this week was almost 9 pounds. Fun, fun, fun! After rescheduling my Monday trip for l more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/25/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was to be a five day work week, but Dr. John Hitt was forced to cancel our trip on Sunday because of his ever changing duties as president of University of Central Florida. I also moved my Mo more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/18/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Monday of this week saw the coldest weather of the year, after many days of weather almost as cold last week ushered in by the massive cold front that his the northeast so hard. The low Monday m more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/11/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Between the seemingly constant barrage of cold fronts and the very poor tides this week, I didn’t get on the water until Friday. At 45 degrees, it was a cold morning to be on the water, and the more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/3/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Fishing began on Sunday, which is rare for me. You see, I had a guest Howard Gallagher, down from Maine, who had rented a room at the Fish Camp for three nights. Howard loves to fish the west co more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 1/28/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey I spent most of the week in Sarasota, again this week, and managed to get out on the water twice. I met my old friend John Wolfgang Franck for breakfast Monday morning, before hitting the wat more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 1/21/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey My week began on Sunday with my good friend Dr. John Hitt. We’d elected to cancel our Saturday trip because of the approaching front, and it turned out to be a very good decision. It was li more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 1/14/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Although I had no trips booked this week, I was on the water for a couple of days in Sarasota. Slow is the operative word in January; fishing, business, metabolism. Everything is slow in Januar more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 1/7/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey It’s January 2nd. Trout season is officially open. After spending two days in the last week pre-fishing for keeping sized fish, John Hitt and I are ready to go out and put our limits of trout in more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound