Fishing Reports by Capt. Butch Rickey

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - WEEK ENDING 5/15/04 by Capt. Butch Rickey The week began with my bi-annual trip to my dermatologist, Dr. Jay Herbst, in North Port Charlotte. I'm happy to say there were no suspicious things growing on me this trip. First day on the water was more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 5/8/04 by Capt. Butch Rickey Things slowed down a bit this week. I had a couple of days off because of weather and poor tides. I woke up Monday morning wondering what the status of an approaching front would be. I quickly more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 4/24/04 by Capt. Butch Rickey The fishing this week had me and my customers seeing red once again; redfish, that is! It was a great week of fishing on the whole, even though the tides were not strong, they were high, and oft more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/10/04 by Capt. Butch Rickey I saw red all week long; redfish, that it! But, with each day that passed, I had more company on the flat. After having Monday off, I was on the water Tuesday with my old friend Harold Tol more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 3/27/2004 by Capt. Butch Rickey This week has to go down as one of the windiest on record, even for the month of March. We had wind gust to 35 MPH nearly every day, and steady winds at 25. It made getting to and from the fi more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/6/2004 It was a busy week, with new milestones, and pretty good fishing, for the most part. My seven day week became six days when my friend Tony Ronci was forced to cancel our Sunday outing with his brother because h more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/28/04 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a great week to be slow, because the weather has been very rough; blowing like crazy all week . Monday and Tuesday is blew from southerly directions as a big cold front approached, fo more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/21/2004 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a long week of tough fishing. The front that came through last weekend sent the temperatures plummeting back into the low 40's, and the wind blowing out of the north. That combined more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/7/04 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a great week of fishing with some great folks. The weather was also great, as we saw a warming trend set in with the beginning of the week. But, the warming weather brought lots of moistu more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/10/2004 by Capt. Butch Rickey Finally! Trout season is open. And my fishing buddy John Hitt and I were ready to go out for our last trip of the holidays and bring home some trout fillets. Trout are one of he and Mart more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound