Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/2/2000 If I had to describe the situation this week with just one word it would be rain, rain, rain. Because of unseasonable morning storms streaming in off the Gulf for two days in a row, there are only two fi more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/19/2000 by Capt. Butch Rickey I had a full week on the schedule, but fate had other plans. Boy, getting old ain't what it's cracked up to be, so far! I had Charles and Don Ruston scheduled for Monday and Tues more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/29/2000 by Capt. Butch Rickey A three day weekend and a day lost sitting in the local Dodge dealership made it an abbreviated work week for me. Although it started off slowly, it ended pretty well. Here's h more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/1/2000 by Capt. Butch Rickey This was a fantastic week of great fishing, and catching. It was marred only by one mechanical problem, and news of the worst kind. Monday was reserved for my friend Rusty Holme more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR PINE ISLAND SOUND FOR THE WEEK ENDING 6/24/00 It was a great week of snook fishing on the outside with lot of wonderful folks. It gets brutally hot out there this time of year, but the high speed action can make you forget your more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - This was supposed to be a week of vacation for me, but I booked my good friend Mike Schwartz way in advance for Monday and Tuesday before I even had my vacation on the calendar. I wouldn't have missed fishing with him even if I had known, as Mike i more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - It was the week of the full moon. Although the full moon brings good morning tides, it curses us with fish that have lockjaw. Our prime species, snook and redfish, are both very much nocturnal feeders. For several days either side of the full moon more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR PINE ISLAND SOUND FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/29/00 It seems that every week I'm whining and complaining about the weather, in particular, the wind. Well, I'm sorry, but I guess I'm going to do it again. Will these fronts ever stop c more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR PINE ISLAND SOUND FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/15/00 The weather here is still the issue. This is the longest March on record, now going on 45 days of fronts and winds. I'm ready for summer and the calm, still mornings of intense sno more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/18/00 This was the week of my wife's second surgery. I took three days off to be home with her, and had one cancellation. The result was that I only fished two days, and they were tough. Monday, my friend more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound